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Many of the leading intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance struggled with “a gnawing and unresolved dissonance between the dual imperatives of [their] heritage: the Judeo-Christian will to believe and the Classical will to reason

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Many of the leading intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance struggled with “a gnawing and unresolved dissonance between the dual imperatives of [their] heritage: the Judeo-Christian will to believe and the Classical will to reason.” (Fiero, pg. 184)  What does this mean?  Explain how this struggle was expressed in two of the figures of the period.