The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Introductory Readings.

1. Dante, Inferno, Cantos I & XXVI.

2. Petrarch.

Letter On ‘Ascent Of Mt. Ventoux’.

Two Letters To Cicero.

Il Canzoniere, Poems 1-5, 30, 189, 272, 365.

3. Leonardo Bruni, Life Of Petrarch.

Part II: Renaissance Statecraft And Its Limitations:.

4. Pius II, Commentaries, Procession & Speech About A Crusade.

5. Machiavelli, The Prince, Dedication + Bks. 7, 15, 17-18, 25-26.

Part III: Urban Life And Values:.

6. Boccaccio, Decameron 2:5 (Story Of Andreuccio).

7. Alessandra Strozzi, Selected Letters.

8. Machiavelli & Vettori, 2 Letters.

Part IV: Gender And Society.

9. Boccaccio, Decameron 10:10 (Story Of Griselda).

10. Barbaro, On Wifely Duties, Bk. 2, Chaps. 1, 3-5, 9.

Part V: The Power Of Knowledge:.

11. Valla, On The Donation Of Constantine.

12. Ficino, Three Books On Life, I:7, II:10–13.

13. Cereta, Two ‘Familiar’ Letters.

14. Alcionio, An Oration On The Sack Of Rome.

Part VI: Patronage, Art, And Culture:.

15. Isabella d’Este, Letters On Collecting.

16. Cellini, Autobiography, 1:24-29.

Part VII: The End Of The Renaissance.

17. Castiglione, Book Of The Courtier, 4:4-26.

18. Valeriano, On The Ill Fortune Of Learned Men, 1:1-14.

Index.