The Italian Renaissance Reader Author:Julia Conaway Bondanella (Editor), Mark Musa (Editor) Italy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries gave birth to some of the most outstanding artists, writers, and theorists the world has ever known. Now this superb one-volume anthology, assembled by two of the field's top scholars, presents an exciting and comprehensive selection of writings that represent the most influential works of ... more »eleven great Renaissance Italians.
Here are excerpts from the Latin prose and poetry of PETRARCH; part of BOCCACCIO's "Decameron", which began the modern tradition of short fiction; an incisive view of MICHELANGELO's consistent preoccupation with the nature of beauty, love, and artistic creation as expressed in his poetry; a portion of the sculptor CELLINI's fascinating autobiography, which portrays both his genius and his egocentrism; essential selections from CASTIGLIONE's highly influential "Book of the Courtier", which ranks with MACHIAVELLI's portrait of the ideal political leader in "The Prince" as the most popular books of the Renaissance; selections from DA VINCI's famous notebooks; and much more.« less
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"An exciting and comprehensive selection of writings that represent the most influential works of eleven great Renaissance Italians including Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and others."