Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources

Contents
General Introduction
Bibliographical Note
Chapter 1: Antiquity Reborn
	Introduction
	1. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)
		Letter to Cicero (1345)
		Letter to Homer (1360)
	2. Giovanni Boccaccio
		Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Book XIV (1360/1374)
	4. Poggio Bracciolini and Cencio Romano, Book Hunters
		Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino Veronese (1416)
		Cencio Romano, Letter to Francesco da Fiano (1416)
Chapter 2: Explorations of the Self
	Introduction
	5. Petrarch
		To Posterity (1351/1372)
	6. Giannozzo Manetti
		On the Dignity and Excellence of Man (1452/1453)
	7. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
		Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
	8. Michel de Montaigne
		To the Reader (1580) and Of Experience (1587–1588)
Chapter 3: The Civic Experience
	Introduction
	9. Leonardo Bruni
		In Praise of the City of Florence (1404)
	10. Francesco Barbaro
		On Marriage (1415)
	11. Alamanno Rinuccini
		On Liberty (1479)
	12. Juan Luis Vives
		On Assistance to the Poor (1526)
Chapter 4: A World in Crisis
	Introduction
	13. Lauro Quirini
		Letter to Pope Nicholas V, on the Fall of Constantinople (1453)
	14. Angelo Poliziano
		Account of the Pazzi Conspiracy (1478)
	15. Luigi Guicciardini
		The Sack of Rome (1527)
	16. Olympia Fulvia Morata
		Letters (1551– 1555)
Chapter 5: Machiavelli, Erasmus, and More: Visions of the State
	Introduction
	17. Niccolò Machiavelli
		The Prince (1513)
	18. Desiderius Erasmus
		On the Education of a Christian Prince (1516)
	19. Thomas More
		Utopia (1516)
Chapter 6: Humanism and the Arts
	Introduction
	20. Leon Battista Alberti
		On Painting (1435)
	21. Isabella d’Este
		Letters on Painters and Painting (1497– 1506)
	22. Albrecht Dürer
		Letters to Willibald Pirckheimer (1506)
	23. Benvenuto Cellini
		Autobiography, Book II (1558/1566)
Chapter 7: Humanism and Religion
	Introduction
	24. Lorenzo Valla
		On the Donation of Constantine (1440)
	25. Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
		Exhortatory Letter on Translating the Gospels into French (1523)
	26. Bernardino Ochino
		Dialogue about the Thief on the Cross (1540)
	27. Gasparo Contarini et alii
		Report on the Reform of the Church (1537)
Chapter 8: Humanism, Science, and Philosophy
	Introduction
	28. Marsilio Ficino
		Letters (1473/1474)
	29. Nicholas Copernicus
		Preface to On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543)
	30. Galileo Galilei
		Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
	31. René Descartes
		Discourse on Method (1637)
Chapter 9: Women and Humanism
	Introduction
	32. Isotta Nogarola
		Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve (1451)
	33. Laura Cereta
		Letters to Bibolo Semproni (1488) and Lucilia Vernacula (1487)
	34. Cassandra Fedele
		Oration in Praise of Letters (c. 1487)
	35. Marie Le Jars de Gournay
		The Equality of Men and Women (1622)
Chapter 10: Other Worlds
	Introduction
	36. Amerigo Vespucci
		New World, Letter to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici (1502/1503)
	37. Garcilaso de la Vega, “El Inca”
		Royal Commentaries of the Incas (1609–1617)
	38. Saint Francis Xavier
		Letter to His Companions in Europe (1552)
	39. Luís Vas de Camões
		The Lusiads (1572)
Texts and Studies
Index