The Renaissance Reader Reviews |
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| The newest addition to
the successful Reader series, which includes The American Reader,
The Democracy Reader, and The Medieval Reader, this
authoritative collection provides first-hand encounters with the Renaissance
in the form of letters, diaries, poetry, and art. As the transition between the Middle Ages and modern times, the Renaissance is perhaps the most distinguished age since that of Classical Greece. In addition, the consciousness of our own time was largely formed by those who were given the freedom to express themselves by the rebirth of arts and sciences in this period. The Renaissance Reader, like the previous books in the series, gives readers access to the important literary,artistic, social, religious, political, scientific, and philosophical texts of the era. Divided into three parts, covering the 14th, 15th and 16th, and 17th centuries, the book contains selections from the work of such well-known individuals as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Villon, Malory, Columbus, Copernicus, Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Shakespeare, as well as fifty illustrations representing the work of Giotto, Donatello, Bellini, Da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Holbein, and Brueghel. Compiled with the assistance of a distinguished academic panel of Renaissance experts, The |
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