The Italian RenaissanceUniversity of Toronto Press, 01.01.1993 - 184 Seiten An anthology of writings from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries designed to illustrate the life and thought of Italians for students and the general reader. It offers a broad sampling of humanist work by educators, statesmen, philosophers, churchmen and courtiers translated into English. This is a reprint of a book first published in 1965. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Coluccio Salutati from A Letter in Defense of Liberal | 13 |
Petrus Paulus Vergerius the Elder from De Ingenuis | 25 |
Vespasiano Da Bisticci from Lives of Illustrious Men of | 39 |
Lorenzo Valla from The Forgery of the Alleged Donation | 55 |
Pope Pius II from The Commentaries | 69 |
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola from Oration on the Dig | 93 |
Francesco Matarazzo from Chronicle of the City of Perugia | 113 |
Niccolò Machiavelli from The Prince | 123 |
Pietro Bembo from Gli Asolani | 137 |
Baldesar Castiglione from The Courtier | 149 |
Leonardo Da Vinci from The Notebooks | 163 |
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