The portable Renaissance reader / edited, and with an introduction, by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin. [print]

This edition originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1968.

War and the Golden Age Jean de Montreuil -- The Turkish menace Cardinal Bessarion -- A Bleak prospect Pope Pius II -- The Golden Age of France Marsilio Ficino -- An age of gold Erasmus of Rotterdam -- The restoration of the gospel Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples -- The necessary evils Richard Eden -- The golden age Torquato Tasso -- The excellence of this age Loys le Roy -- The evils of the times Justus Lipsius -- Don Quixote and the Golden Age Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- The man of letters Francesco Petrarca -- The return of the muses Giovanni Boccaccio -- Petrarca and the art of poetry Leonardo Bruni -- The glory of the Latin language Lorenzo Villa -- Germany invokes the muses Joachim von Watt -- The arts reborn Giorgio Vasari -- The golden world Fietro Martire D'Anghiera -- Joyful news from the newfound world Micolas Monardes -- Avarice Luis de Leon -- The Old World and the New Michel de Montaigne -- Tobacco, tobacco -- the prosperity of Florence Benedetto Dei -- Venice, mistress of the seas Arnold von Harff -- The Hapsburgs and the Fuggers (Maximillian I; Jakob Fugger) -- Jack of Newberie, an English clothier Thomas Deloney -- Antwerp, the great market Ludovico Guicciardini -- The dearness of things Jean Bodin -- Life in Vienna Pope Pius II -- The plight of the French poor Cahier of the Estates General -- Life among the English Venetian Relazione -- The manner of the world nowadayes John Skelton -- A painter's travels Albrecht Durer -- The Peasant's War in Tyrol Georg Kirchmair; Michael Geismayr -- A house in Venice Pietro Aretino -- Observations on the Turks Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq -- The judgment of a witch Fugger Newsletter -- The circle of governments Niccolo Machiavelli -- A portrait of Lorenzo de Medici Francesco Guicciardini -- The balance of power in Italy Francesco Guicciardini -- Henry Virgin IslandsI, a new monarch Francis Bacon -- Charles V and Philip his son Marino Cavalli -- The strength and weakness of France Michele Suriano -- On virtu and fortune Leon Battista Alberti -- The perfect country house Leon Battista Alberti -- The perfect gentleman Giovanni della Casa -- The relief of the poor Juan Luis Vives -- The reform of the Commonwealth Thomas Starkey -- War and the Law of Nations Francisco de Vitoria -- The concord of the world Guillaume Postel -- The ruins of Rome Poggio Bracciolini -- The restoration of Rome Bartolommeo Platina -- The soul of man Marsilio Ficino -- The immortality of the soul Pietro Pomponazzi -- The life of a scholar-printer Aldus Manutius -- On the New Teatament Erasmus of Rotterdam -- Pythagoras reborn Johann Reuchlin -- Gargantua's advice to Pantagruel Francois Rabelais -- In praise of poetry Giovanni Boccaccio -- Music and the courtier Baldassare Castiglione -- A complaint by night of the lover not beloved Francesco Petrarca -- On the death of the Lady Laura Francesco Petrarca -- A ballata Angelo Poliziano -- A carnival song Lorenzo de Medici -- Astolpho's journey to the moon Ludovico Ariosto -- Love's justification Michelangelo Buonarroti -- To Vittoria colonna : the model and the statue Michelangelo Buonarroti -- Mass of love : a Spanish ballad -- A sonnet Luis Vaz de Camoes -- Night of stars Luis de Leon -- To the moon Pierre de Ronsard -- Of his lady's old age Pierre de Ronsard -- Happy who like Ulysses Joachim du Bellay -- A sonnet to heavenly beauty Joachim du Bellay -- Poor loving soul Louise Labe -- My lute awake Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Thou blind man's mark Sir Philip Sidney -- Weep you no more, sad fountains -- Orfeo Angelo Poliziano -- A theatrical performance Baldassare Castiglione -- Lazarillo de Tormes -- The dignity of man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -- Self-portrait of a universal man Leon Battista Alberti -- St. Thomas More Micholas Harpsfield -- Michelangeol Buonarroti Ascanio Condivi -- On himself and his life Girolamo.

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