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Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources

By Margaret L. King (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company
Year
2014
ISBN
1624661114, 9781624661112
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3855272 bytes)
Pages
384\378
Time added
2020-05-13 06:50:26

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By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows that Renaissance thinkers had a lot to say, not only about the ancient world one of their habitual passions but also about the self, how civic experience was configured, the arts, the roles and contributions of women, the new science, the new world, and so much more. Christopher S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University Contents General Introduction Bibliographical Note Chapter 1: Antiquity Reborn Introduction 1. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) Letter to Cicero (1345) Letter to Homer (1360) 2. Giovanni Boccaccio Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Book XIV (1360/1374) 4. Poggio Bracciolini and Cencio Romano, Book Hunters Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino Veronese (1416) Cencio Romano, Letter to Francesco da Fiano (1416) Chapter 2: Explorations of the Self Introduction 5. Petrarch To Posterity (1351/1372) 6. Giannozzo Manetti On the Dignity and Excellence of Man (1452/1453) 7. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) 8. Michel de Montaigne To the Reader (1580) and Of Experience (1587–1588) Chapter 3: The Civic Experience Introduction 9. Leonardo Bruni In Praise of the City of Florence (1404) 10. Francesco Barbaro On Marriage (1415) 11. Alamanno Rinuccini On Liberty (1479) 12. Juan Luis Vives On Assistance to the Poor (1526) Chapter 4: A World in Crisis Introduction 13. Lauro Quirini Letter to Pope Nicholas V, on the Fall of Constantinople (1453) 14. Angelo Poliziano Account of the Pazzi Conspiracy (1478) 15. Luigi Guicciardini The Sack of Rome (1527) 16. Olympia Fulvia Morata Letters (1551– 1555) Chapter 5: Machiavelli, Erasmus, and More: Visions of the State Introduction 17. Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince (1513) 18. Desiderius Erasmus On the Education of a Christian Prince (1516) 19. Thomas More Utopia (1516) Chapter 6: Humanism and the Arts Introduction 20. Leon Battista Alberti On Painting (1435) 21. Isabella d’Este Letters on Painters and Painting (1497– 1506) 22. Albrecht Dürer Letters to Willibald Pirckheimer (1506) 23. Benvenuto Cellini Autobiography, Book II (1558/1566) Chapter 7: Humanism and Religion Introduction 24. Lorenzo Valla On the Donation of Constantine (1440) 25. Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples Exhortatory Letter on Translating the Gospels into French (1523) 26. Bernardino Ochino Dialogue about the Thief on the Cross (1540) 27. Gasparo Contarini et alii Report on the Reform of the Church (1537) Chapter 8: Humanism, Science, and Philosophy Introduction 28. Marsilio Ficino Letters (1473/1474) 29. Nicholas Copernicus Preface to On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543) 30. Galileo Galilei Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) 31. René Descartes Discourse on Method (1637) Chapter 9: Women and Humanism Introduction 32. Isotta Nogarola Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve (1451) 33. Laura Cereta Letters to Bibolo Semproni (1488) and Lucilia Vernacula (1487) 34. Cassandra Fedele Oration in Praise of Letters (c. 1487) 35. Marie Le Jars de Gournay The Equality of Men and Women (1622) Chapter 10: Other Worlds Introduction 36. Amerigo Vespucci New World, Letter to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici (1502/1503) 37. Garcilaso de la Vega, “El Inca” Royal Commentaries of the Incas (1609–1617) 38. Saint Francis Xavier Letter to His Companions in Europe (1552) 39. Luís Vas de Camões The Lusiads (1572) Texts and Studies Index

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