The Portable Renaissance Reader (Viking Portable Library)

by Ross, James Bruce (Edt), McLaughlin, Mary Martin (Edt)

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This collection presents the gorgeous, troubled tapestry of the European Renaissance in the words of more than a hundred of its monarchs, prelates, merchants, scholars, artists, poets, and ordinary citizens. It includes selections from writings by Pope Pius II, Miguel de Cervantes, Michelangelo Buonarrotti, St. Teresa of Avila, and others. Embracing epochal events and the flow of everyday life, history and the arts, religion and science, commerce and statecraft, The Portable Renaissance Reader is a banquet of a book. 756 pages.
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