The Portable Renaissance Reader

by Ross, James Bruce; McLaughlin, Mary Martin

• ISBN13: 9780140150612
• ISBN10: 0140150617
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-08-25
• Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS

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