Portable Renaissance Reader - Hardcover

 
9780701119591: Portable Renaissance Reader

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Synopsis

Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Durer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.

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About the Author

James Bruce Ross was a medieval scholar who contributed to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader.

Mary Martin McLaughlin (1919-2006) was a medieval scholar whose work focused on often overlooked subjects of the period, such as the roles of families. She attended the University of Nebraska and Columbia University, and also taught at both Wellesley and Vassar. Most notably, she contributed to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader.

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Presents writings by such figures as Pope Pius II, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, John Calvin, and St. Teresa of Avila.

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9780140150612: The Portable Renaissance Reader (Portable Library)

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ISBN 10:  0140150617 ISBN 13:  9780140150612
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1977
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