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List of Illustrations | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Introductory Readings | |
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Dante, Inferno, Cantos I & XXVI | |
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Petrarch | |
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Letter On 'Ascent Of Mt Ventoux' | |
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Two Letters To Cicero | |
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Il Canzoniere, Poems 1-5, 30, 189, 272, 365 | |
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Leonardo Bruni, Life Of Petrarch | |
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Renaissance Statecraft And Its Limitations | |
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Pius II, Commentaries, Procession & Speech About A Crusade | |
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Machiavelli, The Prince, Dedication + Bks. 7, 15, 17-18, 25-26 | |
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Urban Life And Values | |
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Boccaccio, Decameron 2:5 (Story Of Andreuccio) | |
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Alessandra Strozzi, Selected Letters | |
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Machiavelli & Vettori, 2 Letters | |
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Gender And Society | |
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Boccaccio, Decameron 10:10 (Story Of Griselda) | |
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Barbaro, On Wifely Duties, Bk. 2, Chaps. 1, 3-5, 9 | |
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The Power Of Knowledge | |
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Valla, On The Donation Of Constantine | |
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Ficino, Three Books On Life, I:7, II:10-13 | |
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Cereta, Two 'Familiar' Letters | |
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Alcionio, An Oration On The Sack Of Rome | |
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Patronage, Art, And Culture | |
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Isabella d'Este, Letters On Collecting | |
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Cellini, Autobiography, 1:24-29 | |
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The End Of The Renaissance | |
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Castiglione, Book Of The Courtier, 4:4-26 | |
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Valeriano, On The Ill Fortune Of Learned Men, 1:1-14 | |
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Index | |