{"product_id":"the-civilization-of-the-italian-renaissance-9781442604858","title":"The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition    Preface to the First Edition   How to Read a Historical Document      1.Introduction to the Italian Renaissance       Introduction: The Renaissance    The Classical Heritage   Quintilian: On the Early Education of the Citizen-Orator   Cicero: The Orator; Brutus; On Duties      2. Dante and Medieval Italy       Introduction    Dante's Contemporaries    Brunetto Latini: Proem to the Tesoretto   Rustico di Filippo: \"On the Illness of a Little Girl\"; \"Portrait of Messerino de'Caponsacchi\"   Guido Cavalcanti: \"To Dante\"   Cino da Pistoia: \"To Dante, on the Death of Beatrice\"   Dante Alighieri: Inferno, Canto I, Canto V; Paradiso, Canto XV, Canto XVI      3. Petrarch       Introduction   Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of Cicero; On His Own Ignorance      4. Florence in the Renaissance       Introduction   Giovanni Villani: Selections from The Chronicle of Giovanni Villani: Villani Writes His Chronicle; The Rebuilding of Florence after 1293; The Black Death; Fire; Famine; Flood; Plague; Flagellants; The City   Giovanni Boccaccio: A Description of the Plague from the Decameron; Selections from The Life of Dante: Proem; Family Cares, Honors, and Exile of Dante; Rebuke of the Florentines   Short Documents Illustrating Guild, Political, and Commercial Activity   Guelfs and Ghibellines, 1347   The Aftermath of the Ciompi Revolt: A Community in Disorder, 1382   The Decline of the Guelf Party, 1413   Guild Corporations: Wine Merchants    Guild Philanthropy    The Catasto of 1427: The Declaration of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sculptor   Benedetto Dei: Letter to a Venetian   Leonardo Bruni: The Events of 1292-93; Speech of Giano della Bella      5. Humanism       Introduction   Coluccio Salutati: Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari   Vespasiano da Bisticci: From Vespasiano's Lives; Poggio Bracciolini; Niccol  Niccoli    Lorenzo Valla: The Glory of the Latin Language   Leonardo Bruni: History of Florence: The Struggle against the Visconti, From Book Twelve; The Life of Dante   Isotta Nogarola: Of the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve      6. Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism       Introduction   Marsilio Ficino: Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love; On the Two Origins of Love and the Double Venus; On the Painting of Love; How the Soul Is Raised from the Beauty of the Body to the Beauty of God; How God Is to Be Loved    Selections from His Letters: On Law and Justice; On the Duty of a Citizen; The Astonishing Glories of Lorenzo de'Medici   Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man   Angelo Poliziano: Selections from Stanzas on the Occasion of the Jousts of Giuliano de'Medici      7. Marriage, the Family, and Women       Introduction   Francesco Barbaro: Selections from On Wifely Duties: On the Faculty of Obedience; On Love; On Moderation; On the Education of Children   Leon Battista Alberti: The Family in Renaissance Florence   Marriage and the Family in Renaissance Florence   The Marriages of Gregorio Dati   Two Marriages in the Valori Family, 1452 and 1476   Marriage Negotiations: The Del Bene, 1381   Marriage Neotiations: The Strozzi, 1464-65    Illegitimacy and Marriage, 1355   A Broken Marriage, 1377   The Children of Gregorio Dati, 1404   Niccolo Machiavelli: Selections from Mandragola   Baldassare Castiglione: The Book of the Courtier   Laura Cereta: Letter to Augustinius Aemilius: Curse against the Ornamentation of Women   Documents Illustrating the Lives of Poor and Marginal Women in Renaissance Florence   The Establishment of Communal Brothels, 1415   Profits of Prostitution, 1427 and 1433   Prostitutes and the Courts, 1398-1400    The Recruitment of Prostitutes, 1379   A Panderer's Career   The Story of the Servant Girl Nencia   The Tribulations of a Slave Girl   A Witch's Career      8. Art and Architecture       Introduction   Filippo Brunelleschi   Mariano Taccola: A Speech by Brunelleschi   The Competition for the Baptistry Doors    Lorenzo Ghiberti    Antonio Manetti    Girogio Vasari    Il Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto): Contract of Pinturicchio with Cardinal Francesco de'Todeschini-Piccolomini for Decorating the Library in Siena Cathedral, 29 June 1502   Isabella d'Este    Pietro Vanucci Perugino: Instructions of Isabella d'Este to Perugino, 19 January 1503; Letter of Perugino to Isabella d'Este, 10 December 1503; Letter of Isabella d'Este to Perugino, 12 January 1504; Letter of Perugino to Isabella d'Este, 24 January 1504   Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting and on Sculpture; On Architecture   Leonardo da Vinci: Selections from the Notebooks      9. Learning and Education       Introduction   Pietro Paolo Vergerio: Concerning Liberal Studies   Leonardo Bruni: A Letter to Battista Malatesta on the Study of Literature   Battista Guarino: On the Means of Teaching and Learning   Coluccio Salutati: Letter to Caterina di Messer Vieri di Donatino d'Arezzo   Laura Cereta: Letter to Bibulus Sempronius: A Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women; Letter to Lucilia Vernacular: Against Women Who Disparage Learned Women      10. The Church and the Papacy       Introduction   Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pius II): The Election of Pope Pius II   Lorenzo Valla: The Principal Arguments from the Falsely-Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine   Roderigo Borgia (Alexander VI): Selections from Pope Alexander VI and His Court; The Accession of Alexander VI; The Year of the Jubilee; The Death and Funeral of Alexander   Girolamo Savonarola: \"O Soul, By Sin Made Blind\"; A Preacher of Reform; Selections from a Draft Constitution for Florence   Francesco Guicciardini: Savonarola, a Portrait   Antonio Alamanni: Carnival Song: \"The Triumph of Death\"   Gregorio Dati: Individual Piety: Selections from the Ricordanze   Michelangelo Buonarroti: \"Love's Justification\"; \"To Vittoria Colonna: The Model and the Statue\"      11. Life in Renaissance Italy       Introduction   The Elite   Pietro Aretino: Letter to Messer Giannantonio Da Foligno; Letter to Messer Domenico Bollani; Letter to Messer Simone Bianco    Michelangelo Buonarroti: Letter to Tommaso Cavalieri  Niccolo Machiavelli: Letter to Francesco Vettori (1513); Letter to Francesco Vettori (1514)   Lorenzo de'Medici: \"Song for Dance\"; \"Song of Girls and of Cicadas\"   Francesco Guicciardini: A Portrait of Lorenzo de'Medici   Johannes Burchardus: Life in Papal Rome During the Reign of Alexander VI   Giovanni Boccaccio: The Tale of Andreuccio   The Poor    Pensions for Retired Employees, 1395   Plague, Famine, and Civil Disorder   Appeal for Tax Relief, 1369   Justice for the Poor, 1367   The Condemnation of a Labor Organizer, 1345   The Demands of the Ciompi, 1378   Warfare   Alessandro Benedetti: Diary of the Caroline War   Francesco Guicciardini: The Formidable French Artillery and Troops Compared with the Italian Forces; Character of Prospero Colonna; Changes in the Nature of Warfare       12. The Late Italian Renaissance       Introduction   Francesco Guicciardini: Selections from Maxims and Reflections   Giovanni Della Casa: Selections from Galateo   Giorgio Vasari: Selections from The Lives of the Artists: The Life of Raphael of Urbino, Painter and Architect, 1483-1520; The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine Painter, Sculptor, and Architect, 1475-1564   Benvenuto Cellini: Selections from The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini    Girolamo Cardano: On Himself and His Life       Source Credits","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734023266647,"sku":"9781442604858","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442604858.jpg?v=1782123223","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-civilization-of-the-italian-renaissance-9781442604858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}