The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance

A Sourcebook, Second Edition
Herausgeber: Bartlett, Kenneth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 197mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9781442604858
• ISBN-10: 1442604859
• Artikelnr.: 33768698

Autorenporträt

Kenneth R. Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The English in Italy 1525–1558: A Study in Culture and Politics (1991), The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook (2011), and A Short History of the Italian Renaissance (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
How to Read a Historical Document
1.Introduction to the Italian Renaissance
Introduction: The Renaissance
The Classical Heritage
Quintilian: On the Early Education of the Citizen-Orator
Cicero: The Orator; Brutus; On Duties
2. Dante and Medieval Italy
Introduction
Dante's Contemporaries
Brunetto Latini: Proem to the Tesoretto
Rustico di Filippo: "On the Illness of a Little Girl"; "Portrait of
Messerino de'Caponsacchi"
Guido Cavalcanti: "To Dante"
Cino da Pistoia: "To Dante, on the Death of Beatrice"
Dante Alighieri: Inferno, Canto I, Canto V; Paradiso, Canto XV, Canto XVI
3. Petrarch
Introduction
Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of
Cicero; On His Own Ignorance
4. Florence in the Renaissance
Introduction
Giovanni Villani: Selections from The Chronicle of Giovanni Villani:
Villani Writes His Chronicle; The Rebuilding of Florence after 1293; The
Black Death; Fire; Famine; Flood; Plague; Flagellants; The City
Giovanni Boccaccio: A Description of the Plague from the Decameron;
Selections from The Life of Dante: Proem; Family Cares, Honors, and Exile
of Dante; Rebuke of the Florentines
Short Documents Illustrating Guild, Political, and Commercial Activity
Guelfs and Ghibellines, 1347
The Aftermath of the Ciompi Revolt: A Community in Disorder, 1382
The Decline of the Guelf Party, 1413
Guild Corporations: Wine Merchants
Guild Philanthropy
The Catasto of 1427: The Declaration of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sculptor
Benedetto Dei: Letter to a Venetian
Leonardo Bruni: The Events of 1292-93; Speech of Giano della Bella
5. Humanism
Introduction
Coluccio Salutati: Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari
Vespasiano da Bisticci: From Vespasiano's Lives; Poggio Bracciolini;
Niccolò Niccoli
Lorenzo Valla: The Glory of the Latin Language
Leonardo Bruni: History of Florence: The Struggle against the Visconti
, From Book Twelve; The Life of Dante
Isotta Nogarola: Of the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve
6. Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism
Introduction
Marsilio Ficino: Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love; On the Two
Origins of Love and the Double Venus; On the Painting of Love; How the Soul
Is Raised from the Beauty of the Body to the Beauty of God; How God Is to
Be Loved
Selections from His Letters: On Law and Justice; On the Duty of a Citizen;
The Astonishing Glories of Lorenzo de'Medici
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man
Angelo Poliziano: Selections from Stanzas on the Occasion of the Jousts of
Giuliano de'Medici
7. Marriage, the Family, and Women
Introduction
Francesco Barbaro: Selections from On Wifely Duties: On the Faculty of
Obedience; On Love; On Moderation; On the Education of Children
Leon Battista Alberti: The Family in Renaissance Florence
Marriage and the Family in Renaissance Florence
The Marriages of Gregorio Dati
Two Marriages in the Valori Family, 1452 and 1476
Marriage Negotiations: The Del Bene, 1381
Marriage Neotiations: The Strozzi, 1464-65
Illegitimacy and Marriage, 1355
A Broken Marriage, 1377
The Children of Gregorio Dati, 1404
Niccolo Machiavelli: Selections from Mandragola
Baldassare Castiglione: The Book of the Courtier
Laura Cereta: Letter to Augustinius Aemilius: Curse against the
Ornamentation of Women
Documents Illustrating the Lives of Poor and Marginal Women in Renaissance
Florence
The Establishment of Communal Brothels, 1415
Profits of Prostitution, 1427 and 1433
Prostitutes and the Courts, 1398-1400
The Recruitment of Prostitutes, 1379
A Panderer's Career
The Story of the Servant Girl Nencia
The Tribulations of a Slave Girl
A Witch's Career
8. Art and Architecture
Introduction
Filippo Brunelleschi
Mariano Taccola: A Speech by Brunelleschi
The Competition for the Baptistry Doors
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Antonio Manetti
Girogio Vasari
Il Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto): Contract of Pinturicchio with
Cardinal Francesco de'Todeschini-Piccolomini for Decorating the Library in
Siena Cathedral, 29 June 1502
Isabella d'Este
Pietro Vanucci Perugino: Instructions of Isabella d'Este to Perugino, 19
January 1503; Letter of Perugino to Isabella d'Este, 10 December 1503;
Letter of Isabella d'Este to Perugino, 12 January 1504; Letter of Perugino
to Isabella d'Este, 24 January 1504
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting and on Sculpture; On Architecture
Leonardo da Vinci: Selections from the Notebooks
9. Learning and Education
Introduction
Pietro Paolo Vergerio: Concerning Liberal Studies
Leonardo Bruni: A Letter to Battista Malatesta on the Study of Literature
Battista Guarino: On the Means of Teaching and Learning
Coluccio Salutati: Letter to Caterina di Messer Vieri di Donatino d'Arezzo
Laura Cereta: Letter to Bibulus Sempronius: A Defense of the Liberal
Instruction of Women; Letter to Lucilia Vernacular: Against Women Who
Disparage Learned Women
10. The Church and the Papacy
Introduction
Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pius II): The Election of Pope Pius II
Lorenzo Valla: The Principal Arguments from the Falsely-Believed and Forged
Donation of Constantine
Roderigo Borgia (Alexander VI): Selections from Pope Alexander VI and His
Court; The Accession of Alexander VI; The Year of the Jubilee; The Death
and Funeral of Alexander
Girolamo Savonarola: "O Soul, By Sin Made Blind"; A Preacher of Reform ;
Selections from a Draft Constitution for Florence
Francesco Guicciardini: Savonarola, a Portrait
Antonio Alamanni: Carnival Song: "The Triumph of Death"
Gregorio Dati: Individual Piety: Selections from the Ricordanze
Michelangelo Buonarroti: "Love's Justification"; "To Vittoria Colonna: The
Model and the Statue"
11. Life in Renaissance Italy
Introduction
The Elite
Pietro Aretino: Letter to Messer Giannantonio Da Foligno; Letter to Messer
Domenico Bollani; Letter to Messer Simone Bianco
Michelangelo Buonarroti: Letter to Tommaso Cavalieri
Niccolo Machiavelli: Letter to Francesco Vettori (1513); Letter to
Francesco Vettori (1514)
Lorenzo de'Medici: "Song for Dance"; "Song of Girls and of Cicadas"
Francesco Guicciardini: A Portrait of Lorenzo de'Medici
Johannes Burchardus: Life in Papal Rome During the Reign of Alexander VI
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Tale of Andreuccio
The Poor
Pensions for Retired Employees, 1395
Plague, Famine, and Civil Disorder
Appeal for Tax Relief, 1369
Justice for the Poor, 1367
The Condemnation of a Labor Organizer, 1345
The Demands of the Ciompi, 1378
Warfare
Alessandro Benedetti: Diary of the Caroline War
Francesco Guicciardini: The Formidable French Artillery and Troops Compared
with the Italian Forces; Character of Prospero Colonna; Changes in the
Nature of Warfare
12. The Late Italian Renaissance
Introduction
Francesco Guicciardini: Selections from Maxims and Reflections
Giovanni Della Casa: Selections from Galateo
Giorgio Vasari: Selections from The Lives of the Artists: The Life of
Raphael of Urbino, Painter and Architect, 1483-1520; The Life of
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine Painter, Sculptor, and Architect,
1475-1564
Benvenuto Cellini: Selections from The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Girolamo Cardano: On Himself and His Life
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