The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a
democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy. It establishes the
boundaries of the present investigation within the Aristotelian
tradition, and outlines democratization as a process capable of
assigning power to people. It deals with how the democratization of
knowledge historically is invested equally in ideas from religion and
philosophy, involving the same democratizers, moved by similar
intentions, employing identical techniques of vulgarization and
targeting equivalent communities of recipients.