BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- SERIES PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE BEGINNING OF THE RENAISSANCE -- SOURCES -- 1. CONTEMPORARY PERCEPTIONS OF THE RENAISSANCE -- Source A: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) on Giotto. -- Source B: Matteo Palmieri writes in his Vita Civile (around 1420). -- Source C: Marsilio Ficino to Paul of Middleburg, 1492. -- Source D: Erasmus to Aldus Manutius, 1507. -- Source E: Louis le Roy, writing in 1575. -- SOURCE -- 2. FLORENCE IN THE TIME OF THE RENAISSANCE -- Source F: Leonardo Bruni (1369-1444) describes the Constitution of Florence. -- Source G: Gregorio Dati explains Florence's prosperity. -- Source H: Giovanni Rucellai, a merchant, 1473. -- Source I: Niccolo Niccoli reprimands Piero de' Pazzi. -- Source J: From the writings of Lorenzo de' Medici. -- 2 HUMANISM -- SOURCES -- 1. THE IMPACT OF CLASSICAL LEARNING -- Source A: Giorgio Vasari about Nicola Pisano (?1225-?85). -- Source B: Vasari's Preface to his Lives of the Painters. -- Source C: Leonardo da Vinci's notebook. -- Source D: Girolamo Savonarola, 1494. -- Source E: Baldassare Castiglione to Pope Leo X, 1513. -- SOURCES -- 2. HUMANISM AND THE RICH -- Source F: Vittorino da Feltre (d.1446) explains his ideas on education. -- Source G: Carlo Masuppini, 1446. -- Source H: Nicolas Copernicus to Bishop Lucas Watzelrode, 1509. -- Source I: Thomas More to the council of Oxford University. -- Source J: Guillaume Budé to Pierre Lamy, 1523. -- 3 THE INFLUENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE ON MONARCHIES AND GOVERNMENTS -- SOURCES -- 1. RENAISSANCE PERCEPTIONS OF GOOD AND BAD GOVERNMENT -- Source A: Erasmus to Henry VIII 1517. -- Source B: Luther discusses the power of the civil authority over faith, 1522. -- Source C: John Calvin on the rights of princes, 1541. -- Source D: Savonarola attacks Lorenzo de' Medici, 1490.

Source E: Machiavelli's obituary on Lorenzo de' Medici (d.1492). -- SOURCES -- 2. EXAMPLES OF THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE RENAISSANCE -- Source F: Machiavelli in The Discorsi I xi. -- Source G: Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) discusses Tacitus. -- Source H: The Duke of Mantua explains why he is glad to have a drawing by Mantegna. -- Source I: Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, ?1482. -- 4 THE LINKS BETWEEN THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION -- SOURCES -- 1. DO LUTHER'S TEACHINGS FIT WITH THE RENAISSANCE? -- ound 1314-21). ... -- Source B: Marsilio Ficino discusses God in a Platonic way, 1474. -- Source C: Luther's 95 Theses, 1517. -- Source D: Luther writes to Spalatin, 1520. -- SOURCES -- 2. RELIGION AND THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE RENAISSANCE -- Source E: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola writes in 1486 about the centrality of man. -- Source F: Deathbed speech of Pope Nicholas V, 1455. -- Source G: Francesco Giucciardini (1483-1548) explains what he feels about churchmen. -- Source H: Erasmus in a letter to his friend Wolfgang Capito, 1517. -- 5 THE LINKS BETWEEN THE RENAISSANCE AND OVERSEAS EXPLORATION -- SOURCE -- 1. RENAISSANCE INFLUENCES ON THE EXPLORERS AND THEIR SPONSORS -- Source A: Cadamosto describes why he went exploring, 1455. -- Source B: Luis Vaz de Camoens imagines the classical gods taking an interest in da Gama's voyage, 1572. -- Source C: Ferdinand Columbus describes his father's clever use of scientific knowledge in Jamaica, 1502. -- SOURCES -- 2. SOME EUROPEAN VIEWS OF THE WIDER WORLD -- Source D: Sir John Mandeville, circa 1360. -- Source E: Letter from Robert Thorne, written from Spain, 1527. -- Source F: Richard Hackluyt describes the reasoning behind the Muscovy Voyage of 1553. -- Source G: Acosta tries to explain species diversity, 1590. -- 6 SCIENTIFIC CHANGE IN THE RENAISSANCE -- SOURCES.

1. CHANGING VIEWS OF THE UNIVERSE -- Source A: Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64). -- Source B: Cardinal Nicolaus von Schoenberg to Nicolas Copernicus, 1536. -- Source C: Girolamo Cardano (d.1576). -- Source D: Sir Henry Wotton to the Earl of Salisbury, 1610. -- SOURCE -- 2. CHANGING VIEWS OF NATURE -- Source E: A painter's apprenticeship contract, 1467. -- Source F: Leonardo da Vinci on the subject of Noah's Flood. -- Source G: Leonardo da Vinci discusses flight. -- Source H: Andreas Vesalius describes the decline of medicine, 1543. -- 7 THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE -- SOURCES -- 1. LINKS BETWEEN ITALY AND THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE -- Source A: Vasari describes Northern influences on the work of Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530). -- Source B: A contemporary of Lucas Cranach comments on his work. -- Source C: Michelangelo's views on Flemish art (recorded by Francisco de Hollanda). -- Source D: The German Albrecht Dürer visits Antwerp and Brussels, September 1520. -- SOURCE -- 2. ASPECTS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND -- Source E: Erasmus writes to John Colet about scholasticism, 1499. -- Source F: Thomas More (Utopia) on farming, 1516. -- Source G: John Dee writes about Number, 1570. -- Source H: Shakespeare's Miranda expresses her amazement at the world. -- 8 DID THE RENAISSANCE CHANGE EUROPE? -- SOURCES -- 1. RENAISSANCE CHANGES IN EUROPE -- Dante explains the subject of the Divine Comedy in a letter to his patron Can Grande della Scala, circa 1314. -- Source B: Machiavelli on fortune, 1513. -- Source C: Rabelais puts into the mouth of Gargantua a description of the perfect education, 1532-4. -- Source D: Christopher Marlowe in Tamburlaine (1587-8). -- SOURCES -- 2. PERCEPTIONS OF RENAISSANCE ART -- Source E: Dante discusses (in the voice of Oderisi the artist) the transient nature of fame, ?1314. -- Source F: Michelangelo Buonarroti to Giovanni da Pistoia, 1510.

Source G: Michelangelo Buonarroti to Benedetto Varchi, 1547. -- Source H: Fynes Moryson on the Italians, 1601. -- NOTES AND SOURCES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- COLLECTION OF PRIMARY SOURCE -- GENERAL BOOKS ON THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES -- RENAISSANCE EXPLORATION -- RENAISSANCE SCIENCE -- THE RENAISSANCE OUTSIDE ITALY -- INDEX.