The Italian Renaissance
The Essential Sources
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:9th May '03
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These primary sources open a window onto the ways that women and men in Renaissance Italy sought to communicate their beliefs, desires, fears, and hopes, both about their own lives and about the dynamic culture they helped to shape.
- An ideal complement to Paula Findlen’s ‘The Italian Renaissance: Essential Readings’ (Blackwell Publishing, 2002).
- Includes canonical texts alongside newly available ones that give fresh perspectives.
- Selections address topical issues, such as the family strategies of women, attitudes towards non-Italians, and women as patrons of art.
- Genres represented include correspondence, poetry, the story, dialogue, oratory, and autobiography.
- Brings the teaching of the Italian Renaissance to life, showing how citizens communicated about their beliefs, desires, fears, and hopes.
"This collection offers a diverse and inclusive selection of readings on Renaissance life and culture, from Dante to the later Renaissance, that will be invaluable to all students of the period. The translations are accessible, and the introductory essays frame the primary sources so that the voices of the age speak with vitality and new purpose."
--Meredith Gill, University of Notre Dame
"This collection includes many old favourites from the pens of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli, but these are mixed with important, though less familiar texts, such as several of Alessandra Strozzi's letters, Valweiano's lament on the sad fortunes of learned men, and Ficino's Tre Vite... teachers of Italian Renaissance history and culture will find this volume an attractive additionto the all-too-short list of anthologies suitable for classroom use."
--Melissa Meriam Bullard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ISBN: 9780631231653
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
Weight: 481g
320 pages