The Portable Renaissance Reader,9780140150612

The Portable Renaissance Reader

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ISBN13: 9780140150612
ISBN10: 0140150617
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1977-08-25
Publisher(s): PENGUIN BOOKS
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Summary

Essential passages from the works of more than a hundred 15th and 16th Century writers, among them Erasmus, Cervantes, Montaigne, Bodin, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Copernicus, Savonarola and Calvin.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(41)
Suggestions for Further Reading (Revised, 1967) 42(8)
Biographical List of Authors 50(9)
Chronological Table 59(6)
PART ONE: AN AGE OF GOLD
This Our Age
War and the Golden Age
65(5)
Jean de Montreuil
The Turkish Menace
70(4)
Cardinal Bessarion
A Bleak Prospect
74(5)
Pope Pius II
The Golden Age in Florence
79(5)
Marsilio Ficino
An Age of Gold
Erasmus of Rotterdam
80(4)
The Restoration of the Gospel
84(3)
Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples
The Necessary Evils
87(2)
Richard Eden
The Golden Age
89(2)
Torquato Tasso
The Excellence of This Age
91(18)
Loys Le Roy
The Evils of the Times
109(7)
Justus Lipsius
Don Quixote and the Golden Age
116(4)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Return of The Muses
The Man of Letters
120(3)
Francesco Petrarca
The Return of the Muses
123(4)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Petrarca and the Art of Poetry
127(4)
Leonardo Bruni
The Glory of the Latin Language
131(4)
Lorenzo Valla
Germany Invokes the Muses
135(5)
Joachim von Watt
The Arts Reborn
140(6)
Giorgio Vasari
The New-Found World
The Golden World
146(6)
Pietro Martire d'Anghiera
Joyful News from the New-Found World
152(4)
Nicolas Monardes
Avarice
156(1)
Luis de Leon
The Old World and the New
157(4)
Michel de Montaigne
Tobacco, Tobacco
161(4)
Anonymous
PART TWO: THE CITY OF MAN
The Pursuit of Profit
The Prosperity of Florence
165(3)
Benedetto Dei
Venice, Mistress of the Seas
168(7)
Arnold von Harff
The Hapsburgs and the Fuggers
175(6)
Maximilian I
Jakob Fugger
Jack of Newberie, and English Clothier
181(4)
Thomas Deloney
Antewerp, the Great Market
185(17)
Ludovico Guicciardini
The Dearness of Things
202(6)
Jean Bodin
The Manner of the World
Life in Vienna
208(10)
Pope Pius II
The Plight of the French Poor
Cahier of the Estates General
214(4)
Life among the English
218(6)
Venetian Relazione
The Manner of the World Nowadayes
224(3)
John Skelton (?)
A Painter's Travels
227(7)
Albrecht Durer
The Peasants' War in Tyrol
234(7)
Georg Kirchmair
Michael Geismayr
A House in Venice
241(3)
Pietro Aretino
Observations on the Turks
244(19)
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
The Judgment of a Witch
Fugger News-Letter
258(5)
The Edifice of Power
The Circle of Governments
263(4)
Niccolo Machiavelli
A Portrait of Lorenzo de' Midici
267(12)
Francesco Guicciardini
The Balance of Power in Italy
279(5)
Francesco Guicciardini
Henry VII A New Monarch
284(10)
Francis Bacon
Charles V Philip His Son
294(11)
Marino Cavalli
The Strength and Weakness of France
305(23)
Michele Suriano
The Search For Perfection
On Virtu and Fortune
328(4)
Leon Battista Alberti
The Perfect Country House
332(8)
Leon Battista Alberti
The Perfect Gentleman
340(7)
Giovanni della Casa
The Relief of the Poor
347(7)
Juan Luis Vives
The Reform of the Commonwealth
354(11)
Thomas Starkey
War and the Law of Nations
365(7)
Francisco de Vitoria
The Concord of the World
372(7)
Guillaume Postel
PART THREE: THE STUDY OF MAN
Learning of the Best Sort
The Ruins of Rome
379(6)
Poggio Bracciolini
The Restoration of Rome
385(2)
Bartolommeo Platina
The Soul of Man
387(5)
Marsilio Ficino
The Immortality of the Soul
392(4)
Pietro Pomponazzi
The Life of a Scholar-Printer
396(13)
Aldus Manutius
On the New Testment
Erasmus of Rotterdam
401(8)
Pythagoras Reborn
409(5)
Johann Reuchlin
Gargantua's Advice to Pantagruel
414(7)
Francois Rabelais
The Orphic Lyre
In Praise of Poetry
421(3)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Music and the Courtier
424(5)
Baldassare Castiglione
A Complaint by Night of the Lover Not Beloved
429(1)
Francesco Petrarca
On the Death of the Lady Laura
430(1)
Francesco Petrarca
A Ballata
431(1)
Angelo Poliziano
A Carnival Song
432(8)
Lorenzo de' Medici
Astolpho's Journey to the Moon Love's Justification
440(1)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
To Vittoria Colonna: The Model and the Statue
440(1)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Mass of Love: A Spanish Ballad
441(1)
Anonymous
A Sonnet
442(1)
Luis Vaz de Camoes
Night of Stars
443(3)
Luis de Leon
To the Moon
446(1)
Pierre de Ronsard
Of His Lady's Old Age
447(1)
Pierre de Ronsard
Happy Who Like Ulysses
447(1)
Joachim du Bellay
A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty
448(1)
Joachim du Bellay
Poor Loving Soul
449(1)
Louise Labe
My Lute Awake
449(2)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thou Blind Man's Mark
451(1)
Sir Philip Sidney
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
452(1)
Anonymous
The Theater of Life
Orfeo
453(7)
Angelo Poliziano
A Theatrical Performance
460(6)
Baldassare Castiglione
Lazarillo de Tormes
466(10)
Anonymous
The Dignity of Man
The Dignity of Man
476(4)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Self-Portrait of a Universal Man
480(12)
Leon Battista Alberti
St. Thomas More
492(9)
Nicholas Harpsfield
Michelangelo Buonarroti
501(11)
Ascanio Condivi
On Himself and His Life
512(15)
Girolamo Cardano
PART FOUR: THE BOOK OF NATURE
The Arts and Nature
The Art of Building
527(4)
Leon Battista Alberti
Nature, Art, and Science
531(9)
Leonardo da Vinci
The Casting of the ``Perseus''
540(8)
Benvenuto Cellini
On Landscape Painting
548(4)
Karel van Mander
The Art of Paracelsus
552(6)
Paracelsus
A Surgeon in the Field
558(5)
Ambroise Pare
Anatomy and the Art of Medicine
563(9)
Andreas Vesalius
The Health of the Mind
572(2)
Girolamo Fracastoro
On Nature and Experience
574(6)
Bernard Palissy
Revolutions of the Spheres
The Diurnal Rotation of the Earth
580(9)
Nicole Oresme
The Nature of the Universe
Nicholas of Cusa
584(5)
The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
589(4)
Nicholas Copernicus
The New Star
593(4)
Tycho Brahe
Comrades in the Pursuit of Truth
597(11)
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
The Starry Herald
608(7)
Galileo Galilei
PART FIVE: THE KINGDOM OF GOD
The Congregation of the Faithful
The Trial of Jerome of Prague
615(15)
Poggio Bracciolini
The Unity of the Church
Nicholas of Cusa
624(6)
The Election of a Pope
630(14)
Pope Pius II
A Preacher of Reform
644(3)
Girolamo Savonarola
Savonarola, A Portrait
647(5)
Francesco Guicciardini
The Lutheran Revolt
652(9)
Alfonso de Valdes
An Anabaptist View of the Church
661(4)
Peter Rideman
An Appeal to the Council of Trent
665(7)
Reginald Pole
The True Kirk and Its Signs
672(22)
John Knox
Freedom of the Will
On Free Will
Erasmus of Rotterdam
677(17)
The Bondage of the Will
694(10)
Martin Luther
Free Will and Predestination
704(8)
John Calvin
True Christian Piety
The Brethren of the Common Life
712(9)
Thomas a Kempis
Members of One Body
Erasmus of Rotterdam
717(4)
The Faith of a Christian
721(6)
Martin Luther
The Self-Knowledge of a Christian
727(3)
Juan de Valdes
The Fervent Spirits
730(3)
Pietro Paolo Vergerio
The Livery of Christ
733(5)
Hugh Latimer
Good Christian Discipline
738(17)
John Calvin
The Lord's Labour
St. Teresa of Avila
742(11)
The Obscure Night of the Soul
St. John of the Cross
753(2)
Acknowledgments 755

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