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Informationen zum Autor John A. Wagner , PhD, has taught British and U.S. history at Phoenix College and Arizona State University, USA. He is co-editor, with Susan Walters Schmid, of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Tudor England (ABC-CLIO 2011), editor of Voices of Shakespeare’s England (Greenwood 2010) and Documents of Shakespeare’s England (ABC-CLIO 2019), and author of the Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses (ABC-CLIO 2001). Klappentext The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms. Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy. The political development and economic expansion of those cities provided the ideal conditions for humanist scholarship to flourish. This period of literary, artistic, architectural, and cultural flowering is today known as the Renaissance, a term taken from the French and meaning "rebirth."The Italian Renaissance reached its height in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the 1490s, the ideals of the Italian Renaissance spread north of the Alps and gave rise to a series of national cultural rebirths in various states. In many places, this Northern Renaissance extended into the 17th century, when war and religious discord put an end to the Renaissance era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents Chronology of the Renaissance DOCUMENTS OF THE RENAISSANCE Art and Literature 1. "These Men Vilify the Italian Tongue": Excerpts From Dante Alighieri's Il Convivio (ca. 1307) and Divine Comedy (1320) 2. "The Courteous Fashion in Which a Lady Imposed Silence Upon a Gentleman": Excerpt From the Decameron (ca. 1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio 3. "The Utterances of Men Concerning Me Will Differ Widely": Excerpts From Petrarch's "Letter to Posterity" (ca. 1372) 4. "You Sing My Book, But Not as I Have Made It": Excerpt From Franco Sacchetti's Novelle (Late 14th Century) 5. "They Both Imagined That They Loved in Vain": Excerpt From The Tale of Two Lovers (1444) by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini 6. "A House Is a Little City": A Description of a Gentleman's Country House From Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) (1452) 7. "I Can Carry Out Sculpture in Marble, Bronze or Clay": Leonardo da Vinci's Letter to Ludovico Sforza (ca. 1482) and Excerpts From Leonardo's Notebooks 8. "He Fell to Crying 'Wine! Wine! Wine!'?": Excerpts From the Novelle or Tales (1554-1573) of Matteo Bandello Economics and Society 9. "Thinking Less about Women than about Robbers": Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini's Description of His Mission to Scotland (1435) 10. "Once the Wine Has Been Slept Away": Excerpts From the Facetiae (1470) of Poggio Bracciolini 11. "To Sail to the Regions of the East by Those of the West": Letters on Trade and Western Voyaging From Paolo Toscanelli to Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Martins (1474) 12. "This Creature of Indeterminate Image": Excerpts From Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) 13. "You Should Be the Link to Bind This City Closer to the Church": Lorenzo de' Medici's Letter of Advice to His Son, Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici...
