Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Renaissance
Contents
Early Italian Humanism
- Dante (1265-1321)
- Petrarch (1304-1374)
- Petrarch (1304-1374): The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
- Petrarch (1304-1374): Selected Letters, c. 1372.
- 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),
scanned by Jason Boley and Jacob Miller. August, 1995. Hanover College.
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375):
- The Decameron Full text of English translation [Used
to be at Virginia Tech, now in one very large ascii file at this Site]
- The Decameron,
in Italian and English [At Brown]
- Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education,
1400.
Artists
Politics and Politicians
- Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492): Paternal Advice to A
Cardinal, c. 1491.
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince, excerpts,
1513s.
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince, in
chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- 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): 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]
The Arts of Civilization
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Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the
Courtier, short extracts [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the Courtier,
translated by Sir Thomas Hoby (1561), full text [At Oregon]
[The English is too archaic for classroom use.]
- 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.]
NOTES: copyrighted means the text is not available for free distribution. In
some cases alternate versions are available, and are working through the pipeline. Dates of accession of material can be seen in the New Accessions Page. The date of inception was 1/20/1996. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or
location]. No indication means that the text file is local. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
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