The Italian Renaissance Reader [Paperback]

A single volume introduction to the major writers of the Italian Renaissance—Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, della Mirandola, da Vinci, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Buonarroti, Guicciardini, Cellini, and Vasari.Preface
Introduction
Francesco Petrarca
Letter to Posterity
The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
Selected Poems from theCanzoniere
Giovanni Bocaccio
Stories from theDecameron
Leon Battista Alberti
Selections fromThe Book of the FamilyGiovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Selections fromThe Oration on the Dignity of Man
Leonardo da Vinci
Selections from theNotebooks
Baldesar Castiglione
Selections fromThe Book of the Courtier
Niccolò Machiavelli
Selections fromThe Prince
Francesco Guicciardini
Selections from theRicordi
Benvenuto Cellini
Selections from Cellini'sLife
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Selected PoemsGiorgio Vasari
Selections fromLives of the Most Famous Artists
The Italian Renaissance: Further ReadingsMark Musa is a professor at the Center for Italian Studies at Indiana University. A former Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, Musa is the author of a highly acclaimed translation of Dante'sDivine Comedy.US