De ignorantia - A tudatlanságról

This book presents Francesco Petrarch's most important philosophical work, "De ignorantia" (On Ignorance), written towards the end of his life. It begins with an attack by four young Venetians on the ageing and widely acclaimed poet, who accused him of being a good man but, in truth, ignorant. The ignorance at issue turns out to be an epistemologically grounded doubt about the leading role of the natural sciences.

Petrarch was among the first in Western Europe to recognise the shift from the Middle Ages to the modern age, and he linked it to a new attitude towards knowledge, learning and the human self-image. The treatise invites readers to examine critically the limits of their own knowledge and the certainties of their time.

The book weighs 300 g and carries the ISBN 9789639416420.