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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