Renaissance Literature

Check the link to the catalog to see if the book is available since these may be checked out! Call the library at 336-4570 to have the book held for you if available.

I have provided web links to the full texts for some of the more obscure writings to facilitate a larger number of students gaining access to the literature.

• Dante's Divine Comedy (only a selection of copies available)
  • Divine Comedy (1954)
  • Divine Comedy (1955)
  • Divine Comedy (1958)
  • Divine Comedy (1970)
  • Digital Dante - full-text translations of Divine Comedy from Columbia Univeristy
• Petrarch's Laura excerpted in:
  • Italian Poetry: A Selection on pages 35-39
  • Renaissance Lives, pages 4-18
• Boccaccio's Decameron
  • Decameron (1977)
  • Decameron (1998)
  • Decameron Web: A Growing Hypermedia Archive of Materials Dedicated to Boccaccio's Masterpiece.
• Castiglione's Courtier
  • The Book of the Courtier
  • large section in The Man of the Renaissance (2 editions available)
  • The Courtier - full-text from the University of Oregon
• Rabelais's Gargantua/Pantagruel found in:
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel
  • Portable Rabelais
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais - full e-text from Project Gutenberg.
• Machiavelli's The Prince
  • The Prince (1955)
  • The Prince (1981)
  • large section in The Man of the Renaissance
  • The Prince - full-text in html from the Constitution Society.
• Gutenberg's printing press
  • Available in Rome
    • Fine Print: A Story of Johann Gutenberg
    • Gutenberg
    • World Book and Britannica encyclopedia entries
  • Available from another library: This can take up to two weeks, so please request them ahead of time.
    • Johann Gutenberg: The Man and His Invention
    • Johann Gutenberg and the Invention of Printing
    • Printing Presses: History and Development
• Lorenzo Valla
  • Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine - full-text from Hanover Historical Texts Project.

• Montaigne's essays are readily available
  • Essays of Michel...
  • Selected Essays
  • Montaigne's Essays - full-text from the University of Oregon.
• Cervantes
  • The First Part of the Delightful Story of the Most Ingenious Knight...(1909)
  • The First Part...(1980)
  • The Portable Cervantes
  • Don Quixote - full-text from Project Gutenberg.

     

• Shakspeare's works are shelved at 822.33 SHA

Renaissance Christian Humanism

• Erasmus's Praise of Folly
• The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus - full-text from Project Gutenberg.

• More
  • The Utopia of Sir Thomas More (1947, Classics Club)
  • The Utopia of Sir Thomas More (1947, Van Nostrand)
  • Utopia - full-text from the Constitution Society.

  Renascence Editions from the University of Oregon offers a FULL-TEXT Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799.

Renaissance Art

On the following list, the ones marked* are the hard to find artists.

In addition to specific books listed below, check art encyclopedias and online art museums for pictures of works and biographical information. Also use general books about the Renaissance and its art. Check their indexes and tables of contents ro see if your artist is included.

• Italian art
  • Brunelleschi
    • Gartner, Peter. Fillipo Brunelleschi.
    • King, Ross. Brunelleschi's Dome.
  • Donatello*
  • Masaccio*
  • Raphael
    • Berti, Luciano. Raphael.
    • Jones, Roger. Raphael.
  • Michelangelo (a selection--the library has many more on the topic)
    • Ackerman, James. The Architecture of Michelangelo.
    • Brandes, Georg. Michelangelo.
    • Bull, George Anthony. Michelangelo: A Biography.
    • Hibbard, Howard. Michelangelo.
  • Da Vinci (a selection only--the library has many more on the topic; Found in the L's of Biography rather than Dor V.)
    • Bax, Clifford. Leonardo da Vinci.
    • Bramly, Serge. Leonardo.
    • Friedenthal, Richard. Leonardo da Vinci: A Pictorial Biography.
    • Heydenreich, Ludwig. Leonardo the Inventor.
    • Labella, Vincenzo. A Season of Giants: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael.
  • Botticelli
    • Argan, Giulio. Botticelli.
    • Botticelli, Sandro. Botticelli.
    • Ettlinger, Leopold. Botticelli.
  • Titian
    • Neumann, Jaromir. Titian: The Flaying of Marsyas.
    • Rosand, David. Titian.
  • Anguissola*
    • Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Artists. (One chapter features Anguissola.)
  • Medici (Found in the L's of Biography rather than M!)
    • Mee, Charles. Lorenzo de Medici and the Renaissance.
    • Rowdon, Maurice. Lorenzo the Magnificent.
• Non-Italian art
  • Van Eyck
    • Harbison, Craig. Jan van Eyck.
  • Brueghel
    • Bovi, Arturo. Bruegel.
    • Vohringer, Christian. Pieter Bruegel.
  • Durer
    • Brion, Marcel. Durer: His Life and Work.
    • Durer. Watercolours.
    • Eichler, Anja-Franziska. Albrecht Durer.
  • El Greco
    • Cassou, Jean. El Greco.
    • Guinard, Paul. El Greco.
    • Wethey, Harold. El Greco and His School.
  • Bosch*
    • Delevoy, Robert L. Bosch.
    • Schwartz, Gary. Hieronymus Bosch.

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