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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 | |