Historic Documents of the Renaissance
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Description
Table of contents
Chapters
This volume explores critical aspects of the Renaissance through key primary documents, from letters and
speeches to government documents and royal and papal edicts. Overview articles provide important context to the era. WIth 11 secondary source Overview articles and 23 primary source documents, Historic Documents of the Renaissance is an ideal starting point for historical research into this vital era.
This volume explores critical aspects of the Renaissance through key primary documents, from letters and
speeches to government documents and royal and papal edicts. Overview articles provide important context to the era. WIth 11 secondary source Overview articles and 23 primary source documents, Historic Documents of the Renaissance is an ideal starting point for historical research into this vital era.
Overview Articles
The Renaissance: An Overview
Renaissance Art and Science
Church Corruption
The Great Plague
Christian Humanism
Rise of National Monarchies
Dante and the Italian Communes
Church Corruption and the Conciliar Movement
Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture
The Copernican Revolution
The Newtonian Cosmos
Primary Sources
Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio
Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli
Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies”
Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Leon Alberti: On Painting
Vespasiano da Bisticci: Portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man
The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field
Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada
Alhambra Decree
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince
Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor”
Michel de Montaigne: “Of the Education of Children”
Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger
Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini Concerning Galileo’s Theories
Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
