The editors of the Portable ?? Reader have done another good job of
selecting writings from the later period, which they definitely
place between the years 1400 to 1600, and in their choice of many
lesser known authors have made their book for a more discerning
audience than Haydn and Nelson's A Renaissance Treasury, recently
published by Doubleday. Arranged in roughly chronological periods,
the five sections of the book deal first with an overall appraisal
of "An Age of Gold"; the cultural trends in the newly arisen "City
of Man"; education and the arts- "The Study of Man"; scientific
discovery- "The Book of Nature"; and religious thought, "The
Kingdom of God". While they recognize greats of the period'-
Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Alberti, Erasmus, Cervantes,
Rabelais, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Galileo, Luther, considerable
space is given to such men as Vives the Spanish sociologist,
Palissy "the philosophical potter" of France, Aldus Manutius
without whose thriving Venetian printing press many of the works of
his age might not have appeared. A helpful comparative table of
political, economic, religious and cultural events prefaces the
anthology, and the clarity of the editors' introduction presents
the period in its always new and interesting light. Required
handbook for the many who lack time and energy to go to the sources
themselves. (Kirkus Reviews)
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.
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