ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315018577/389c1d69-bf6d-4f43-8610-58d40a6d0a1a/content/Inline_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> That the Renaissance owed many of its ideas of historiography to the Revival of Learning, which had restored to the modern world an acquaintance with ancient histories and with ancient theories of historical writing, is at once apparent to anyone who reads his way among the multitudinous histories, prefaces to histories, defenses of history, treatises on politics and law and rhetoric, and all the varied writing which discussed history during the sixteenth century. I have chosen to suggest the multiple Renaissance approaches to the whole subject, however, by discussing the work of four men as representing perhaps the most important schools of thought in regard to history which developed during this period.
