The Italian Renaissance Reader

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Description

A single volume introduction to the major writers of the Italian Renaissance—Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, della Mirandola, da Vinci, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Buonarroti, Guicciardini, Cellini, and Vasari.

Additional information

Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 2.8 × 13.11 × 20.17 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

USA

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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

416

Publisher

Year Published

1987-11-13

Imprint

ISBN 10

0452010136

About The Author

Mark Musa is a professor at the Center for Italian Studies at Indiana University. A former Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, Musa is the author of a highly acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Table Of Content

PrefaceIntroductionFrancesco Petrarca"Letter to Posterity""The Ascent of Mount Ventoux"Selected Poems from the CanzoniereGiovanni BocaccioStories from the DecameronLeon Battista AlbertiSelections from The Book of the FamilyGiovanni Pico Della MirandolaSelections from The Oration on the Dignity of ManLeonardo da VinciSelections from the NotebooksBaldesar CastiglioneSelections from The Book of the CourtierNiccolò MachiavelliSelections from The PrinceFrancesco GuicciardiniSelections from the RicordiBenvenuto CelliniSelections from Cellini's LifeMichelangelo BuonarrotiSelected PoemsGiorgio VasariSelections from Lives of the Most Famous ArtistsThe Italian Renaissance: Further Readings

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