About the book: 1978 / In the monograph of the famous Soviet scientist A.F. Losev, for the first time in Russian literature, gives a broadly generalized and detailed description of the aesthetic views of one of the key eras of European history - the Renaissance. The book, which is the result of many years of research by the author, is written on the basis of a huge amount of empirical material, original sources, as well as a significant amount of cultural-historical, artistic and art historical data. The book is intended for specialists in the field of history of aesthetics and philosophy, for readers interested in general issues of cultural history.