The portable Renaissance reader

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

Ross, James Bruce, 1902- (editor.). McLaughlin, Mary Martin, 1919-2006 (editor.).

Summary:

The golden age of Italy and Northern Europe, 1400-1600, shown forth in all its rich diversity in the writings of its acknowledged masters.

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Physical Description: xii, 756 pages ; 17 cm.
Publisher: New York : Viking, 1953.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-48).
Formatted Contents Note:: pt. 1 : An age of gold. This our age. War and the golden age / Jean de Montreuil -- The Turkish menace / Cardinal Bessarion -- A bleak prospect / Pope Pius II -- The golden age in Florence / Marsilio Ficino -- An age of gold / Erasmus of Rotterdam -- The restoration of the Gospel / Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples -- 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 return of the muses. 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 Valla -- Germany invokes the muses / Joachim von Watt -- The arts reborn / Giorgio Vasari -- The new-found world. The golden world / Pietro Martire d'Anghiera -- Joyful news from the new-found world / Nicolas Monardes -- The old world and the new / Michel de Montaigne -- Tobacco, tobacco / Anonymous.

pt. 2 : The city of man. The pursuit of profit. The prosperity of Florence / Benedetto Dei -- Venice, mistress of the seas / Arnold von Harff -- The Hapsburgs and the Fuggers / Maximilian I, Jakob Fugger -- Jack of Newberie, an English clothier / Thomas Deloney -- Antwerp, the great market / Ludovico Guicciardini -- The dearness of things / Jean Bodin -- The manner of the world. 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 Dürer -- 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 News-Letter -- The edifice of power. The circle of governments / Niccoló Machiavelli -- A portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici / Francesco Guicciardini -- The balance of power in Italy / Francesco Guicciardini -- Henry VII, a new monarch / Francis Bacon -- Charles V and Philip his son / Marino Cavalli -- The strength and weakness of France / Michele Suriano -- The search for perfection. On virtù 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.

pt. 3 : The study of man. Learning of the best sort. 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 Testament / Erasmus of Rotterdam -- Pythagoras reborn / Johann Reuchlin -- Gargantua's advice to Pantagruel / François Rabelais -- The Orphic lyre. 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 / Ludovico Ariosto -- Love's justification / Michelangelo Buonarroti -- To Vittoria Colonna : the model and the statue / Michelangelo Buonarroti -- Mass of love : a Spanish ballad / Anonymous -- A sonnet / Luis Vaz de Camões -- Night of stars / Luis de León -- 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 Labé -- My lute awake / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Thou blind man's mark / Sir Philip Sidney -- Weep you no more, sad fountains / Anonymous -- The theater of life. Orfeo / Angelo Poliziano -- A theatrical performance / Baldassare Castiglione -- Lazarillo de Tormes / Anonnymous -- The dignity of man. The dignity of man / Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -- Self portrait of a universal man / Leon Battista Alberti -- St. Thomas More / Nicholas Harpsfield -- Michelangelo Buonarroti / Ascanio Condivi -- On himself and his life / Girolamo Cardano.

pt. 4 : The book of nature. The arts and nature. The art of building / Leon Battista Alberti -- Nature, art, and science / Leonardo da Vinci -- The casting of the "Perseus" / Benvenuto Cellini -- On landscape painting / Karel van Mander -- The art of Paracelsus / Paracelsus -- A surgeon in the field / Ambrose Paré -- Anatomy and the art of medicine / Andreas Vesalius -- The health of the mind / Girolamo Fracastoro -- On nature and experience / Bernard Palissy -- Revolution of the spheres. The diurnal rotation of the Earth / Nicole Oresme -- The nature of the universe / Nicholas of Cusa -- The revolutions of the celestial spheres / Nicholas Copernicus -- The new star / Tycho Brahe -- Comrades in the pursuit of truth / Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler -- The starry herald / Galileo Galilei.

pt. 5 : The kingdom of God. The congregation of the faithful. The trial of Jerome of Prague / Poggio Bracciolini -- The unity of the Church / Nicholas of Cusa -- The election of a pope / Pope Pius II -- A preacher of reform / Girolamo Savonarola -- Savonarola, a portrait / Francesco Guicciardini -- The Lutheran revolt / Alfonso de Valdés -- An Anabaptist view of the Church / Peter Rideman -- An appeal to the Council of Trent / Reginald Pole -- The true Kirk and its signs / John Knox -- Freedom of the will. On free will / Erasmus of Rotterdam -- The bondage of the will / Martin Luther -- Free will and predestination / John Calvin -- True Christian piety. The brethren of the common life / Thomas a Kempis -- Members of one body / Erasmus of Rotterdam -- The faith of a Christian / Martin Luther -- The self-knowledge of a Christian / Juan de Valdés -- The fervent spirits / Pietro Paolo Vergerio -- The livery of Christ / Hugh Latimer -- Good Christian discipline / John Calvin -- The Lord's labour / St. Teresa of Avila -- The obscure night of the soul / St. John of the Cross.
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