The Renaissance

by Cochrane, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780226069456
• ISBN10: 0226069451
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-06-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.

Table of Contents

In Memoriam

Series Editor's Foreword

General Introduction and Select Bibliography

From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

Bartolus of Sassoferrato, On the Tyrant

Francesco Petrarca, Letters on Familiar Matters

Francesco Petrarca, Secretum: Second Dialogue

Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio, Letter to Fra Guglielmo Centueri da Cremona

The Social and Economic Structure of Early Renaissance Italy

Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family

Alessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi, Letter to Filippo degli Strozzi

Bernardino da Siena, Sermons: "On the Vanity of the World and Especially of Women" and "On Usury"

Humanist Culture and Problems of Politcal Order in Renaissance Florence

Leonardo Bruni, On the Constitution of the Florentines

Luca Landucci, Florentine Diary

Bartomomeo Scala, Dialogue on Laws and Judgments

Niccolò Machiavelli, Letters

Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius

Scipione Ammirato, The Florentine Histories

Giovanni Botero, The Reason of the State Arts and Letters

Giorgio Vasari, Life of Michelangelo

Jacopo Pontormo, Letter to Benedetto Varchi

Marguérite de Navarre, The Heptameron

Montaigne, Essays: "Of Cannibals" and "Of Books"

Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music

The Religious Reformation

Martin Luther, Letter to Pope Leo X

The Twelve Articles and Admonition to Peace

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

The Council of Trent: Bull of Convocation and Canons and Decrees, Sessions 4 and 6

A Reformation City: The Diary of Giambattista Casale

Index of Names

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