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Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Selected Sources: Renaissance

Contents

• Early Italian Humanism
  • Dante
  • Petrarch
• Artists
• Politics and Politicians
• The Arts of Civilization
• Northern Renaissance

• WEB  I classici italiani in HTML [At Nuovo Rinascimento] [Many Full texts - all in Italian]
• Dante (1265-1321)
• Dante Alighieri (1165-1321): Letter to Cangrande. [Was At U. Penn, now Internet Archive]
  Dante's letter explaining the Divine Comedy
• Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Divine Comedy [In English]
  The following etexts are available from Project Gutenberg
  Divine Comedy, H. F. Cary's Translation      
      Entire Comedy
      Hell
      Paradise
      Purgatory
  Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation
      Entire Comedy
      Hell
      Paradise
      Purgatory
  
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375):
  • WEB The Decameron Web [At Brown] [Internet Archive backup here]
    Includes full text in Italian and English.
  • The Decameron Full text of English translation [Used to be at Virginia Tech, now in one very large text file at this Site]
• Bartolus of Sassoferrato: On the Tyrant (ca.1330); trans. Steve Lane
• Petrarch (1304-1374)
  • Petrarch (1304-1374): The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
  • Petrarch (1304-1374): Selected Letters, c. 1372.
    Francis Petrarch: Familiar Letters (selections) [At Hanover]
  • WEB Petrarch (1304-1374): Selections from his Correspondences, from James Harvey Robinson, ed. and trans. Francesco Petrarca: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1898) [ Hanover College].
    • Selection 1 - Francesco Petrarch to Posterity
    • Selection 2 - Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters
    • Selection 3 - Petrarch's Passion for Work - The Trials of a Man of Letters
    • Selection 4 - The Visit to the Goldsmith at Bergamo
    • Selection 5 - Petrarch Disclaims all Jealousy of Dante
    • Selection 6 - The Story of Griselda
    • Selection 7 - On the Italian Language and Literature
    • Selection 8 - His Aversion to Logicians
    • Selection 9 - To Marcus Tullius Cicero (1 of 2)
    • Selection 10 - The Old Grammarian of Vicenza
    • Selection 11 - To Marcus Tullius Cicero (2 of 2)
    • Selection 12 - To Homer
    • Selection 13 - On the Nature of Poetry
    • Selection 14 - On the Scarcity of Copyists
    • Selection 15 - The Young Humanist of Ravenna
    • Selection 16 - An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine
    • Selection 17 - The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
  Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375):
  • WEB The Decameron, in Italian and English [At Brown]
  • The Decameron Full text of English translation [Used to be at Virginia Tech, now in one very large ascii file at this Site]
• Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education, 1400.
• Petrus Paulus Vergerius: De Ingenuis Moribus (c. 1404) [At Hanover]
• Leonardo Bruni: De Studiis et Literis [At Hanover]
• Battista Guarino: De Ordine Docendi et Studendi [At Hanover]
• Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini: De Liberorum Educatione [At Hanover]
• Lorenzo Valla: Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine [At Hanover]

• Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Lives of the Artists, Complete in English. Aslo available Lives of the Artists complete [PDF].
• Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Leonardo da Vinci, 1550.

• Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492): Paternal Advice to A Cardinal, c. 1491.
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince, 1513, full text in HTML.
    See also Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Essay On Machiavelli, 1850
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince, excerpts, 1513s.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): Republics and Monarchies, Excerpt from Discourses I, 55
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Ancients and Liberty, Excerpt from Discourses II, 2
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): Founding a Republic, Excerpt from Discourses I, 9
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): History of Florence: Lorence de' Medici
• Laura Certa: Letter to Bibulus Sempronius, 13 January 1488 [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man, full text
• Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the Courtier, translated by Sir Thomas Hoby (1561), full text [Was At Oregon, now Internet Acrhive] [The English is too archaic for classroom use.]
• Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the Courtier, translated by Leonard Eckstein Opdike (1901), full text PDF [Internet Archive]
• 2ND Jacob Burckhardt: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, full text. Not exactly a source, but a classic text scanned in by Skip Knox [At Internet Archive, was at Boise State University, Idaho.]
• Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533): Orlando Furioso ("Orlando Enraged") [At OMACL]
• Torquato Tasso (1544-1595): Gerusalemme Liberata ("Jerusalem Delivered") [At OMACL]
  

• 2ND Johan Huizinga: The Waning of the Middle Ages (1924) [Wiksource] [ Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen [At Project Gutenberg (In original Dutch)]
• Erasmus (ca. 1469-1536): In Praise of Folly [CCEL]
  

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