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| Volume C: The Early Modern Period | |
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| Vernacular Writing In South Asia | |
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| Basavanna (1106- c. 1167) | |
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| Like a monkey on a tree | |
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| You can make them talk | |
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| The crookedness of the serpent | |
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| Before the grey reaches the check | |
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| I don't know anything like time-beats and meter | |
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| The rich will make temples for Siva | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Lore of Basavanna | |
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| Mahadeviyakka (c. 1200) | |
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| Other men are thorn | |
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| Who cares | |
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| Better than meeting | |
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| Kabir (early 1400s) | |
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| Saints, I see the world is mad | |
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| Brother, where did your two gods come from? | |
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| Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge | |
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| When you die, what do you do with your body? | |
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| It's a heavy confusion | |
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| The road the pandits took | |
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| Tukaram (1608-1649) | |
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| I was only dreaming | |
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| If only you would | |
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| Have I utterly lost my hold on reality | |
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| I scribble and cancel it again | |
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| Where does one begin with you? | |
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| Some of you may say | |
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| To arrange words | |
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| When my father died | |
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| Born a Shudra, I have been a trader | |
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| Kshetrayya (mid-17th century) | |
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| A Woman to Her Lover | |
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| A Young Woman to a Friend | |
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| A Courtesan to Her Lover | |
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| A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover | |
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| A Married Woman to Her Lover (1) | |
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| A Married Woman to Her Lover (2) | |
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| Wu Cheng'en (c. 1506-1581) from Journey to the West | |
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| The Rise Of The Vernacular In Europe | |
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| Attacking And Defending The Vernacular Bible | |
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| Henry Knighton: from Chronicle | |
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| Martin Luther: from On Translating: An Open Letter | |
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| The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader | |
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| Women And The Vernacular | |
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| Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande della Scala | |
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| Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady | |
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| Catherine of Siena: from Letter to Raymond of Capua | |
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| Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz: from Response to "Sor Filotea" | |
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| Early Modern Europe | |
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| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) | |
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| Decameron | |
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| Introduction | |
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| First Day, Third Story (The Three Rings) | |
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| Third Day, Tenth Story (Locking the Devil Up in Hell) | |
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| Seventh Day, Fourth Story (The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out) | |
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| Tenth Day, Tenth Story (The Patient Griselda) | |
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| Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549) | |
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| Heptameron | |
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| First Day, Story 5 (The Two Friars) | |
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| Fourth Day, Story 32 (The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull) | |
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| Fourth Day, Story 36 (The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad) | |
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| Eighth Day, Prologue | |
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| Eighth Day, Story 71 (The Wife Who Came Back from the Dead) | |
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| Francis Petrach (1304-1374) | |
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| Letters on Familiar Matters | |
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| To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro (On Climbing Mt. Ventoux) | |
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| from To Boccaccio (On imitation) | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno | |
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| The Canzoniere | |
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| During the Life of My Lady Laura | |
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| "O you who hear within these scattered verses" | |
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| "It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale" | |
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| "The old man takes his leave, white-haired and pale" | |
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| "Alone and deep in thought I measure out" | |
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| "She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze" | |
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| "Clear, cool, sweet running waters" | |
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| "From day to day my face and hair are changing" | |
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| After the Death of My Lady Laura | |
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| "O God! That lovely face, that gentle look" | |
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| "If Love does not give me some new advice" | |
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| "When I see coming down the sky Aurora" | |
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| "That nightingale so tenderly lamenting" | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Virgil: from Fourth Georgic | |
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| "O lovely little bird singing away" | |
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| "I go my way lamenting those past times" | |
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| from 366 "Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light" | |
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| Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators | |
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| Petrarch: Canzoniere 190 | |
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| Thoman Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt | |
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| Petrarch: Canzoniere 209 | |
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| Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ambroso loco | |
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| Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood | |
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| Translations: Petrach's Canzoniere 52 "Diana never pleased her lover more" | |
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| Perspectives: Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition | |
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| Louise Lab� (c. 1520-1566) | |
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| When I behold you | |
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| Lute, companion of my wretched state | |
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| Kiss me again | |
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| Alas, what boots it that not long ago | |
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| Do not reproach me, Ladies | |
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| Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) | |
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| This comes of dangling from the ceiling | |
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| My Lord, in your most gracious face(trans. | |
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| I wish to want, Lord | |
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| No block of marble | |
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| How chances it, my Lady | |
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| Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547) | |
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| Between harsh rocks and violent wind | |
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| Whatever life I once had | |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
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| "From fairest creatures we desire increase" | |
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| "Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest" | |
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| "Who will believe my verse in time to come" | |
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| "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" | |
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| "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" | |
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| "Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing" | |
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| "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" | |
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| "O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power" | |
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| "In the old age black was not counted fair" | |
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| "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" | |
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| Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) | |
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| Laments | |
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| "Come, Heraclitus and Simonides" | |
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| "Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought" | |
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| "My dear delight, my Ursula and where" | |
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| "Where are those gates through which so long ago" | |
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| Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) | |
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| She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself | |
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| She complains of her lot | |
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| She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings | |
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| In which she visits moral censure on a rose | |
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| She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears | |
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| On the death of that most excellent lady, Marquise de Mancera | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Niccol� Machiavelli (1469-1527) | |
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| The Prince | |
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| Dedicatory Letter | |
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| On New Principalities acquired by Means of Ones Own Arms and Ingenuities | |
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| How a Prince Should Keep His Word | |
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| How Much Fortune Can DO in Human Affairs and How to Contend with it | |
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| Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier Singleton | |
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| Fran�Ois Rablais (c. 1495-1553) | |
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| Gargantua and Pantagruel | |
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| The Author's Prologue | |
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| How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly | |
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| How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe | |
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| The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth | |
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| How Gargantua Received His Name | |
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| Concerning Gargantua's Childhood | |
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| How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris | |
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| How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome | |
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| Gargantua's Studies | |
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| How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates | |
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| How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lern� and the People of Grandgousier's | |
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| Country, Which Led to Great Wars | |
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| How the Inhabitants of Lern�, at the Command of Their King Pierchole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepards | |
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| How a Monk of Scuilly Saved the Abbey-close | |
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| How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad | |
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| How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua | |
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| Why Monks are Shunned by the World | |
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| How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep | |
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| How the Monk Encouraged His Companions | |
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| How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Th�l�me Built for the Monk | |
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| How the Th�l�mites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed | |
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| The Rules According to Which the Th�m�lites Lived | |
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| How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
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| How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
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| Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed | |
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| Pantagruel Hears some Gay Words | |
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| Lu�S Vaz De Cam�es (c. 1524-1580) | |
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| The Lus�ads | |
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| (Invocation) | |
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| (King Manuel's death) | |
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| (The curse of Adamastor) | |
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| (The storm; the voyagers reach India) | |
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| (Courage, heroes!) | |
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| Resonance | |
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| from Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco de Gama | |
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| Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) | |
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| Essays | |
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| Of Idleness | |
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| Of the Power of the Imagination | |
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| Of Repentance | |
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| Of Cannibals | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Jean de L�ry: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America | |
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| Of Repentance | |
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| Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) | |
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| Don Quixote | |
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| The character of the knight | |
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| His first expedition | |
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| He attains knighthood | |
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| An adventure on leaving the inn | |
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| The knight's misfortunes continue | |
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| The inquisitions in the library | |
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| His second expedition | |
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| The adventure of the windmills | |
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| The battle with the gallant Basque | |
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| A conversation with Sancho | |
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| His meeting with the goatherds | |
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| The goatherd's story | |
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| The conclusion of the story | |
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| The dead shepherd's verses | |
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| The meeting with Yanguesans | |
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| A second conversation with Sancho | |
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| A tremendous exploit achieved | |
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| The liberation of the gallery slaves | |
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| The knight's penitence | |
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| The last adventure | |
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| The knight, the squire and the bachelor | |
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| Sancho provides answers | |
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| Dulcinea enchanted | |
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| Master Pedro the puppeteer | |
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| The puppet show | |
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| An extraordinary adventure at an inn | |
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| Knight and squire return to their village | |
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| A discussion about omens | |
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| The death of Don Quixote | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | |
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| Lope De Vega Carpio (1562-1635) | |
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| Fuenteovejuna | |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
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| Othello, The Tragedy of the Moor of Mariam | |
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| The Tempest | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Aim� C�saire: from A Tempest | |
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| John Donne (1572-1631) | |
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| The Sun Rising | |
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| Elegy: Going to Bed | |
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| Air and Angels | |
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| A Valediction: Forbidding mourning | |
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| The Relic | |
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| The Computation | |
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| Holy Sonnets | |
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| Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned | |
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| Death be not proud, though some have called thee | |
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| Batter my heart, three-person'd God | |
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| I am a little world made cunningly | |
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| Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one | |
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| The Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions | |
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| "They find the disease to steal on insensibly" | |
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| from 17 "Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die" | |
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| Sermons from The Second Prebend Sermon, on Psalm 63:7 "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice" | |
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| Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) | |
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| The Author to Her Book | |
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| To my Dear and Loving Husband | |
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| A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment | |
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| Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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| Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10<sup>th</sup>, 1666 | |
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| On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet | |
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| To My Dear Children | |
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| John Milton (1608-1674) | |
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| On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
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| When I Consider How My Light is Spent | |
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| Paradise Lost | |
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| Mesoamerica: Before Columbus And After Cort�s | |
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| from POPOL VUH: THE MAYAN COUNCIL BOOK (recorded mid-1550s) | |
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| Creation | |
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| Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld | |
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| The Final Creation of Humans | |
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| Migration and the Division of Languages | |
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| The Death of the Quich� Forefathers | |
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| Retrieving Writings from the East | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Songs Of The Aztec Nobility (15<sup>th</sup> -16<sup>th</sup> century) | |
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| Burnishing them as sunshot jades | |
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| Flowers are our only adornment | |
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| I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away | |
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| Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, Moctezuma | |
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| I strike it up-here!-I, the singer | |
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| from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered | |
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| from Water-Pouring Song | |
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| In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower | |
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| Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico | |
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| Translations: Songs of the Aztec Nobility: Make your beginning, you who sing Perspectives: The Conquest and its Aftermath | |
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| Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | |
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| from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503) | |
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| Bernal D�az del Castillo (1492-1584) | |
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| from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain | |
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| Hernando Ru�z de Alarc�n (c. 1587-1645) | |
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| from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Julio Cort�zar: Axolotl | |
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| Bartolom� de las Casas from Apologetic History | |
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| Sor Juana In�z de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of The Divine Narcissus | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |