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

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

Statement of responsibility

edited, and with an introd. by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin

Instantiates

• The portable Renaissance reader

Publication

• New York, Penguin Books, 1978

Copyright

• ©1958

Note

Reprint of the 1953 ed. published by Viking Press, New York, which was issued as no. 61 of the Viking portable library

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-49)

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Contents

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 VII, 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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ocm02963485

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18 cm

Extent

xii, 756 pages

Isbn

9780140150612

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77007967

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u1066002

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(OCoLC)2963485