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Selected Sources: Renaissance

Contents

• Early Italian Humanism
  • Dante
  • Petrarch
• Artists
• Politics and Politicians
• The Arts of Civilization

• Dante (1265-1321)
  • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): The Divine Comedy.
    See Medieval Sourcebook: Full Texts Page for the many different versions of this text which are online.
  • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Letter to Cangrande [At U Penn]
    Dante's letter explaining the Divine Comedy
• Petrarch (1304-1374)
  • Petrarch (1304-1374): The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
  • Petrarch (1304-1374): Selected Letters, c. 1372.
  • WEB Petrarch (1304-1374): Selections from his Correspondences, from James Harvey Robinson, ed. and trans. Francesco Petrarca: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898), scanned by Jason Boley and Jacob Miller. August, 1995. Hanover College.
    • Selection 1 - Francesco Petrarch to Posterity
    • Selection 2 - Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters
    • Selection 3 - Petrarch's Passion for Work - The Trials of a Man of Letters
    • Selection 4 - The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo
    • Selection 5 - Petrarch Disclaims all Jealousy of Dante
    • Selection 6 - The Story of Griselda
    • Selection 7 - On the Italian Language and Literature
    • Selection 8 - His Aversion to Logicians
    • Selection 9 - To Marcus Tullius Cicero (1 of 2)
    • Selection 10 - The Old Grammarian of Vicenza
    • Selection 11 - To Marcus Tullius Cicero (2 of 2)
    • Selection 12 - To Homer
    • Selection 13 - On the Nature of Poetry
    • Selection 14 - On the Scarcity of Copyists
    • Selection 15 - The Young Humanist of Ravenna
    • Selection 16 - An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine
    • Selection 17 - The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375):
  • The Decameron Full text of English translation [Used to be at Virginia Tech, now in one very large ascii file at this Site]
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  • The Decameron, in Italian and English [At Brown]
• Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education, 1400.

• Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Lives of the Artists, Complete in English [Were at UM-Baltimore, now here]
• Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Leonardo da Vinci, 1550.

• Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492): Paternal Advice to A Cardinal, c. 1491.
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince, excerpts, 1513s.
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527):  The Prince, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince, 1513, full text in HTML.
  See also Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Essay On Machiavelli, 1850
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): Republics and Monarchies, Excerpt from Discourses I, 55
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Ancients and Liberty, Excerpt from Discourses II, 2
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): Founding a Republic, Excerpt from Discourses I, 9
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): History of Florence: Lorence de' Medici
• Laura Certa: Letter to Bibulus Sempronius, 13 January 1488 [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]

• Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the Courtier, short extracts [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
• Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the Courtier, translated by Sir Thomas Hoby (1561), full text [At Oregon]
  [The English is too archaic for classroom use.]
• Jacob Burckhardt: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, full text. Not exactly a source, but a classic text scanned in by Skip Knox at Boise State University, Idaho.