The Portable Renaissance Reader (Portable Library)

The Portable Renaissance Reader (Portable Library)

James Bruce Ross (Editor), Mary Martin McLaughlin (Editor), James Bruce Ross (Introduction by), Mary Martin McLaughlin (Introduction by)
$31.00
Publication Date: August 25th, 1977
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
ISBN:
9780140150612
Pages:
768
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Description

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

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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