{"product_id":"the-portable-renaissance-reader-isbn-9780140150612","title":"The Portable Renaissance Reader","description":"Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading (Revised, 1967)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographical List of Authors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronological Table\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart One: An Age of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis Our Age\u003cb\u003eWar and the Golden Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean de Montreuil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Turkish Menace\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCardinal Bessarion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Bleak Prospect\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePope Pius II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Golden Age in Florence\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMarsilio Ficino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Age of Gold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErasmus of Rotterdam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Restoration of the Gospel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJacques Lefèvre d'Étaples\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Necessary Evils\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Eden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eToquato Tasso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Excellence of This Age\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLoys Le Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Evils of the Times\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJustus Lipsius\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Quixote and the Golden Age\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra\u003cbr\u003eThe Return of the Muses\u003cb\u003eThe Man of Letters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Petrarca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Return of the Muses\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGiovanni Bocaccio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePetrarca and the Art of Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLeonardo Bruni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Glory of the Latin Language\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLorenzo Valla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGermany Invokes the Muses \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJoachim von Watt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Arts Reborn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGiorgio Vasari\u003cbr\u003eThe New-Found World\u003cb\u003eThe Golden World\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePietro Martire d'Anghiera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyful News from the New-Found World\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNicolas Monardes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvarice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLuis de León\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Old World and the New\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMichel de Montaigne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTobacco, Tobacco\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart Two: The City of Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pursuit of Profit\u003cb\u003eThe Prosperity of Florence\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBenedetto Dei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVenice, Mistress of the Seas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eArnold von Harff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hapsburgs and the Fuggers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMaximilian I and Jakob Fugger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack of Newberie, an English Clothier\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThomas Deloney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntwerp, the Great Market\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLudovico Guicciardini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Dearness of Things\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJean Bodin\u003cbr\u003eThe Manner of the World\u003cb\u003eLife in Vienna\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePope Pius II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Plight of the French Poor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCahier of the Estates General\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife among the English\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eVenetian Relazione\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Manner of the World Nowadayes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJohn Skelton (?)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Painter's Travels\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlbrecht Dürer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Peasants' War in Tyrol\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGeorge Kirchmair and Michael Geismayr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA House in Venice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePietro Aretino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eObservations on the Turks\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOgier Ghiselin de Busbecq\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Judgment of a Witch\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFugger Newsletter\u003cbr\u003eThe Edifice of Power\u003cb\u003eThe Circle of Governments\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNiccoló Machiavelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Guicciardini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Balance of Power in Italy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Guicciardini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry VII, A New Monarch\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrancis Bacon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles V and Philip His Son\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMarino Cavalli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Strength and Weakness of France\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMichele Suriano\u003cbr\u003eThe Search for Protection\u003cb\u003eOn Virtù and Fortune\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLeon Battista Alberti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Perfect Country House\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLeon Battista Alberti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Perfect Gentleman\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGiovanni della Casa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Relief of the Poor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJuan Luis Vives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Reform of the Commonwealth\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThomas Starkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar and the Law of Nations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrancisco de Vitoria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Concord of the World\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGuillaume Postel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart Three: The Study of Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLearning of the Best Sort\u003cb\u003eThe Ruins of Rome\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePoggio Bracciolini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Restoration of Rome\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBartolommeo Platina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Soul of Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarsilio Ficino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Immortality of the Soul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePietro Pomponnazi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Life of a Scholar-Printer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAldus Manutius \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the New Testament\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErasmus of Rotterdam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePythagoras Reborn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohann Reuchlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGargantua's Advice to Pantagruel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrançois Rabelais\u003cbr\u003eThe Orphic Lyre\u003cb\u003eIn Praise of Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiovanni Boccaccio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic and the Courtier\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBaldassare Castiglione\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Complaint by Night of the Lover Not Beloved\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Petrarca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the Death of the Lady Laura\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Petrarca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Ballata\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngelo Poliziano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Carnival Song\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLorenzo de' Medici\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAstolpho's Journey to the Moon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLudovico Ariosto \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove's Justification\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelangelo Buonarroti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo Vittoria Colonna: The Model and the Statue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelangelo Buonarroti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMass of Love: A Spanish Ballad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Sonnet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuis Vaz de Camõ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNight of Stars\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuis de León\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo the Moon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre de Ronsard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOf His Lady's Old Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre de Ronsard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHappy Who Like Ulysses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoachim du Bellay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoachim du Bellay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoor Loving Soul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Labé\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Lute Awake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir Thomas Wyatt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThou Blind Man's Mark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir Philip Sidney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeep You No More, Sad Fountains\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003eThe Theater of Life\u003cb\u003eOrfeo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngelo Poliziano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Theatrical Performance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaldassare Castiglione\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLazarillo de Tormes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003eThe Dignity of Man\u003cb\u003eThe Dignity of Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiovanni Pico della Mirandola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelf-Portrait of a Universal Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeon Battista Alberti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSt. Thomas More\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Harpsfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelangelo Buonarroti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAscanio Condivi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn Himself and His Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGirolamo Cardano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart Four: The Book of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Arts and Nature\u003cb\u003eThe Art of Building\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeon Battista Alberti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNature, Art, and Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeonardo da Vinci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Casting of the \"Perseus\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenvenuto Cellini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn Landscape Painting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKarel van Mander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of Paracelsus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParacelsus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Surgeon in the Field\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmbroise Paré\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnatomy and the Art of Medicine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndreas Vesalius\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Health of the Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGirolamo Fracastoro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn Nature and Experience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernard Palissy\u003cbr\u003eRevolutions of the Spheres\u003cb\u003eThe Diurnal Rotation of the Earth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicole Oresme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Nature of the Universe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas of Cusa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Copernicus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTycho Brahe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eComrades in the Pursuit of Truth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGalileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Starry Herald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGalileo Galilei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart Five: The Kingdom of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Congregation of the Faithful\u003cb\u003eThe Trial of Jerome of Prague\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoggio Bracciolini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Unity of the Church\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas of Cusa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Election of a Pope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePope Pius II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Preacher of Reform\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGirolamo Savonarola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSavonarola, A Portrait\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancesco Guicciardini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lutheran Revolt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfonso de Valdés\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Anabaptist View of the Church\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Rideman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Appeal to the Council of Trent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReginald Pole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe True Kirk and Its Signs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Knox\u003cbr\u003eFreedom of the Will\u003cb\u003eOn Free Will\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErasmus of Rotterdam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bondage of the Will\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Luther\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFree Will and Predestination\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Calvin\u003cbr\u003eTrue Christian Piety\u003cb\u003eThe Brethren of the Common Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas a Kempis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMembers of One Body\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErasmus of Rotterdam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Faith of a Christian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Luther\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Self-Knowledge of a Christian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJuan de Valdés\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Fervent Spirits\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePietro Paolo Vergerio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Livery of Christ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHugh Latimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGood Christian Discipline\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Calvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lord's Labour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSt. Teresa of Avila\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Obscure Night of the Soul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSt. John of the Cross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Bruce Ross\u003c\/b\u003e was a medieval scholar who contributed to \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Medieval Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Renaissance Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Martin McLaughlin\u003c\/b\u003e (1919-2006) was a medieval scholar whose work focused on often overlooked subjects of the period, such as the roles of families. 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