Primary Sources Western Civilization, Volume 2 for Primary Sources Western Civilization, Volume 2 [Paperback]

Part 3: The West in Transformation (1350-1700)
Chapter 9: The Renaissance
Petrarch: Rules for a Successful Ruler, c. 1350
Advice to Lorenzo de Medici: On Wifely Duties, 1416
Lorenzo Valla Skewers the Supposed Donation of Constantine , c. 1440
Marriage in the Renaissance: A Serious Business, 1464-1465
Niccolo Machiavelli: From the Discourses on Livy, 1513-1517
Benvenuto Cellini: The Life of an Artist, 1558-1562
Chapter 10: Reformations and Counter-Reformations
The Act of Supremacy, 1534
The Council of Trent, 1545-1563
Anonymous, The Execution of Archbishop Cranmer , 1556
Catherine Zell, Letter to Ludwig Rabus , 1556-1558
Acts of Uniformity, 1559
Anonymous Government Agent, Arrest of Edmund Campion and his Associates , 1581
The Edict of Nantes, 1598
Chapter 11: The Development of Early-Modern States and Societies
Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth, The True Attributes of Sovreignty.
Hugo Grotius, selections from On the Law of War and Peace
Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan
The Treaty of Westphalia, 1743
The Poor Laws
La Colonie, The Battle of Schellenberg
Peter the Great, Correspondence with Alexis
Chapter 12: Expanding Worlds
Letter from the Kings of Portugal to the King of the Kongo
Bartolome de Las Casas, Very Brief Report on the Destruction of the Indians
Jamestown Charter
Richard Frethorne, Letter to Father and Mother
Christopher Columbus, The LettlÃ0