Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): The Divine Comedy.
See Medieval Sourcebook: Full Texts Page for the many different
versions of this text which are online.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321):
Letter to Cangrande [At U Penn]
Dante's letter explaining the Divine Comedy
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.
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.]
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overview.
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