Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading (Revised, 1967) Biographical List of Authors Chronological Table PART ONE: AN AGE OF GOLD This Our Age War and the Golden Age Jean de Montreuil The Turkish Menace Cardinal Bessarion A Bleak Prospect Pope Pius The Golden Age in Florence Marsilio Ficino An Age of Gold Erasmus of Rotterdam The Restoration of the Gospel Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples The Necessary Evils Richard Eden The Golden Age Torquato Tasso The Excellence of This Age Loys Le Roy The Evils of the Times Justus Lipsius Don Quixote and the Golden Age Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The Return of The Muses The Man of Letters Francesco Petrarca The Return of the Muses Giovanni Boccaccio Petrarca and the Art of Poetry Leonardo Bruni The Glory of the Latin Language Lorenzo Valla Germany Invokes the Muses Joachim von Watt The Arts Reborn Giorgio Vasari The New-Found World The Golden World Pietro Martire d'Anghiera Joyful News from the New-Found World Nicolas Monardes Avarice Luis de Leon The Old World and the New Michel de Montaigne Tobacco, Tobacco Anonymous PART TWO: THE CITY OF MAN The Pursuit of Profit The Prosperity of Florence Benedetto Dei Venice, Mistress of the Seas Arnold von Harff The Hapsburgs and the Fuggers Maximilian Jakob Fugger Jack of Newberie, and English Clothier Thomas Deloney Antewerp, the Great Market Ludovico Guicciardini The Dearness of Things Jean Bodin The Manner of the World Life in Vienna Pope Pius The Plight of the French Poor Cahier of the Estates General Life among the English Venetian Relazione The Manner of the World Nowadayes John Skelton (?) A Painter's Travels Albrecht Durer The Peasants' War in Tyrol Georg Kirchmair Michael Geismayr A House in Venice Pietro Aretino Observations on the Turks Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq The Judgment of a Witch Fugger News-Letter The Edifice of Power The Circle of Governments Niccolo Machiavelli A Portrait of Lorenzo de' Midici Francesco Guicciardini The Balance of Power in Italy Francesco Guicciardini Henry VII A New Monarch Francis Bacon Charles V Philip His Son Marino Cavalli The Strength and Weakness of France Michele Suriano The Search For Perfection On Virtu and Fortune Leon Battista Alberti The Perfect Country House Leon Battista Alberti The Perfect Gentleman Giovanni della Casa The Relief of the Poor Juan Luis Vives The Reform of the Commonwealth Thomas Starkey War and the Law of Nations Francisco de Vitoria The Concord of the World Guillaume Postel PART THREE: THE STUDY OF MAN Learning of the Best Sort The Ruins of Rome Poggio Bracciolini The Restoration of Rome Bartolommeo Platina The Soul of Man Marsilio Ficino The Immortality of the Soul Pietro Pomponazzi The Life of a Scholar-Printer Aldus Manutius On the New Testment Erasmus of Rotterdam Pythagoras Reborn Johann Reuchlin Gargantua's Advice to Pantagruel Francois Rabelais The Orphic Lyre In Praise of Poetry Giovanni Boccaccio Music and the Courtier Baldassare Castiglione A Complaint by Night of the Lover Not Beloved Francesco Petrarca On the Death of the Lady Laura Francesco Petrarca A Ballata Angelo Poliziano A Carnival Song Lorenzo de' Medici Astolpho's Journey to the Moon Love's Justification Michelangelo Buonarroti To Vittoria Colonna: The Model and the Statue Michelangelo Buonarroti Mass of Love: A Spanish Ballad Anonymous A Sonnet Luis Vaz de Camoes Night of Stars Luis de Leon To the Moon Pierre de Ronsard Of His Lady's Old Age Pierre de Ronsard Happy Who Like Ulysses Joachim du Bellay A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty Joachim du Bellay Poor Loving Soul Louise Labe My Lute Awake Sir Thomas Wyatt Thou Blind Man's Mark Sir Philip Sidney Weep You No More, Sad Fountains Anonymous The Theater of Life Orfeo Angelo Poliziano A Theatrical Performance Baldassare Castiglione Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous The Dignity of Man The Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Self-Portrait of a Universal Man Leon Battista Alberti St. Thomas More Nicholas Harpsfield Michelangelo Buonarroti Ascanio Condivi On Himself and His Life Girolamo Cardano PART FOUR: THE BOOK OF NATURE The Arts and Nature The Art of Building Leon Battista Alberti Nature, Art, and Science Leonardo da Vinci The Casting of the ``Perseus'' Benvenuto Cellini On Landscape Painting Karel van Mander The Art of Paracelsus Paracelsus A Surgeon in the Field Ambroise Pare Anatomy and the Art of Medicine Andreas Vesalius The Health of the Mind Girolamo Fracastoro On Nature and Experience Bernard Palissy Revolutions of the Spheres The Diurnal Rotation of the Earth Nicole Oresme The Nature of the Universe Nicholas of Cusa The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres Nicholas Copernicus The New Star Tycho Brahe Comrades in the Pursuit of Truth Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler The Starry Herald Galileo Galilei PART FIVE: THE KINGDOM OF GOD The Congregation of the Faithful The Trial of Jerome of Prague Poggio Bracciolini The Unity of the Church Nicholas of Cusa The Election of a Pope Pope Pius A Preacher of Reform Girolamo Savonarola Savonarola, A Portrait Francesco Guicciardini The Lutheran Revolt Alfonso de Valdes An Anabaptist View of the Church Peter Rideman An Appeal to the Council of Trent Reginald Pole The True Kirk and Its Signs John Knox Freedom of the Will On Free Will Erasmus of Rotterdam The Bondage of the Will Martin Luther Free Will and Predestination John Calvin True Christian Piety The Brethren of the Common Life Thomas a Kempis Members of One Body Erasmus of Rotterdam The Faith of a Christian Martin Luther The Self-Knowledge of a Christian Juan de Valdes The Fervent Spirits Pietro Paolo Vergerio The Livery of Christ Hugh Latimer Good Christian Discipline John Calvin The Lord's Labour St. Teresa of Avila The Obscure Night of the Soul St. John of the Cross Acknowledgments
