7. The Renaissance (includes Tudor England)
Brucker, Gene A., ed. The Society of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. RVS: HN 488 .F56 B77 1971
Cassirer, Ernst, ed. The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Selections in Translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. RGC, RVS: B 775 .C3213 1948
Castiglione, Baldassarre. The Book of the Courtier. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1967. (Written as a practical guide for the nobility at the court of Urbino. Embodies the highest ideals of Italian humanism.) NRG: BJ 1604 .C37 1967. (Another edition, with different publication data is at RVS, with the call number BJ 1604 .C573 1959.)
Cellini, Benvenuto. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1961. EVC: NB 623 .C3 S5 1961
Cochrane, Eric, and Julius Kirshner, eds. The Renaissance. (Readings in Western Civilization, No. 5.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. RVS: CB 359 .R46 1986.
Columbia College. Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West. 3d ed. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. (Contents: Vol. I: From the medieval heritage through the Enlightenment.) RVS: CB 5 .C575 1960
Conaway, Julia, ed. The Italian Renaissance Reader. New York: New American Library, 1987. RVS: PQ 4204 .A3 I8313 1987
Cressy, David. Education in Tudor and Stuart England. (Documents of Modern History.) New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976. RVS: LA 631.5 .C73 1976
Englander, David, ed. Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: An Anthology of Sources. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1990. RVS: D 220 .C85 1990
Erasmus, Desiderius. The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A New Translation with Critical Commentary. Compiled, translated, and edited by Robert Martin Adams. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989. (The other writings include selections from The Complaint of Peace, two forewords from the Latin translation of the New Testament, Julius Excluded from Heaven, The Colloquies, and some correspondence. There are also commentaries by several scholars on Erasmus’ work.) NRG: PA 8502 .E5 A3 1989
King, Margaret L., and Albert Rabil, Jr. eds. Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works by and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy. 2nd edition, revised. Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992. (Translations from Latin. Includes letters, orations, encomiums. Illustrates the role of women in Renaissance culture and in intellecdtual history in general.) RVS: PA 8163 . H47 1992
Kinney, Arthur F., ed. Elizabethan Backgrounds: Historical Documents of the Age of Elizabeth I. Rev. paperback ed. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1990. RVS: DA 350 .K56 1990
Kohl, Benjamin G., and Ronald G. Witt, eds. The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978. (Contents: Francesco Petrarca,”How a State Ought To Be Governed;” Coluccio Salutati, “On Poetry, Love, and the Christian Life,” and “Advice to a Woman on the Good Life;” Leonardo Bruni, “Panegyric to the City of Florence;” Francesco Barbaro, “On Wifely Duties;” Poggio Bracciolini, “On Avarice;” and Angelo Poliziano, “The Pazzi Conspiracy.”) RVS: DG 532 .E3713 1978
Leonardo, da Vinci. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. 2 vols. New York: Dover Publications, 1970. NRG: ND 623 .L5 A15 1970b. (Another edition is at RGC with the call number ND 623 .L5 A4 1980.)
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. The Trial of Mary Queen of Scots: A Brief History with Documents. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture.) Boston, Mass,: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999. (A hybrid source. The first forty-five pages is a secondary source about the subject. The remainder of the book contains nine documents about the subject.) RVS: E 350 .L49 1999
Lunenfeld, Marvin, ed. 1492: Discovery, Invasion, Encounter: Sources and Interpretation. (Sources in Modern History Series.) Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1991. RVS: E 101 .A15 1991
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Discourses. (Part of a larger work, The Prince and the Discourses.) New York: The Modern Library, 1950. NRG: JC 143 .M38 1950
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Letters of Machiavelli: A Selection. Chicago: University of Chicago, Press, 1988. RVS: DG 738 .14 .M2 1988
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. (Author advised rulers to discover the advantages of fraud and brutality to achieve and maintain an effective despotic state.) Various editions. (See ACC LRS Catalog for details.) CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS
Montaigne, Michel de. Selected Essays. New York: Modern Library, 1949. NRG: PQ 1642 .E6 B3 76-3332. (An earlier edition is at EVC. The call number is PQ 1641 .E6 F7 1943.)
Montaigne, Michel de. Selected Essays of Montaigne: In the Translation of John Florio. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. RGC: PQ 1642 .E6 K3 1964.
More, Thomas. Utopia. Various editions. (See ACC LRS Catalog for details.) NRG, RGC, RVS
Ozment, Steven, ed. Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany; a Chronicle of Their LIves. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. (“The lives of three boys in their late teens and early adulthood told in their own words.” They were from different generations and branches of the same Nuremberg family. Time covered: 1524-1637. Subjects include Thirty Years War and a visit to the New World.) NRG: CT 1097 .B44 T47 1990.
Popkin, Richard H., ed. The Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (Readings in the History of Philosophy.) New York: Free Press, 1966. (Contents include letter from Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro di Medici about the significance of the newly-discovered lands of the Americas for the intellectual world of the time and a selection from Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly.) NRG, RGC: B 770 .P6 1966
Rabb, Theodore, ed. Origins of the Modern West: Essays and Sources in Renaissance & Early Modern European History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. RVS: D 228 .R13 1993
Ross, Jame B., and Mary M. McLaughlin, eds. The Portable Renaissance Reader. Revised edition. New York: Penguin, 1977. RVS: PN 6014 .R67 1977
Schevill, Ferdinand. The First Century of Italian Humanism. New York: Haskell, 1966. (Reprint of 1928 ed. English translations from Latin.) RVS: PN 731 .S4 1966
Strauss, Gerald, comp. and transl. Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation: A Collection of Documents. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971. (Subject matter: documents about grievances against the Papacy, social unrest, economic exploitation, imperial weakness, and wounded national pride. Authors include humanists, knights, craftsmen, and peasants. Time covered: c.1490 to c.1525.) NRG: DD 174 .S87 1971
Vives, Juan Luis. The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth Century Manual. Edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000. (Spanish humanist author advocates education for all women, regardless of social class or ability. Offers practical advice from childhood through adulthood. Argues that women are intellectually equal to men.) NRG, RVS: B 785 .V63 D4713 2000