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The Portable Renaissance Reader Paperback – August 25, 1977

by James Bruce Ross (Author), Mary M. McLaughlin (Author)

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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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English
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Penguin Classics
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August 25, 1977
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5.04 x 1.41 x 7.75 inches
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0140150617
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978-0140150612
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About the Author

James Bruce Ross was a medieval scholar who contributed to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader.

Mary Martin McLaughlin (1919-2006) was a medieval scholar whose work focused on often overlooked subjects of the period, such as the roles of families. She attended the University of Nebraska and Columbia University, and also taught at both Wellesley and Vassar. Most notably, she contributed to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Revised ed. edition (August 25, 1977)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 768 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140150617
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140150612
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.04 x 1.41 x 7.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #224,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #310 in Renaissance Literary Criticism (Books)
- #598 in Rhetoric (Books)
- #1,036 in European Literature (Books)

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Interesting Anthology

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2013

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This book covers the landscape from about 1400 to 1600, focusing on the following major groups of writings:

*Man
*Nature
*God

With excepts from Galileo, Kepler, Erasmus, Pius II, Teresa of Avila, Luther, Di Vinci and many other lesser known writers of the age The writings provide a glimpse (and little more) into the politics and philosophies of the times. Few of the writings, with the exception of some of the poetry, is complete, or even complete enough to dig in to in any depth. For instance, the excerpt from Cervantes Don Quixote is only 4 pages or so long.

Having noted that limitation, the anthology is interesting enough, and will point the reader to other authors and works to dig deeper. The account of the election of Pius II alone is worth picking up a used copy of this book. An interesting anthology that provides a flavor of the age to the reader.

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Joseph G. Wick

For Apprentice Historians and Other Inquiring Minds

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017

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All these "Readers" are absolutely wonderful, intensely interesting, and terrific for training apprentice historians. Now Amazon asked a lot of questions about the author and content -- pure silliness on their part. It is an anthology of original Renaissance documents.

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Interesting

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2012

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Probably only of interest to three groups of people:
1: Historians
2: Writers
3: Nerds

It will give you a good idea of how much language has shifted in the last couple centuries. You'll also get a feel for how the individual writers whose letters are included wrote and thought. My only serious complaint is a lack of explanatory text around each document like a short summary of 100 or less words and maybe a topic index.

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Lara L. Curtis

Wonderful book!

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013

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The stories from the renaissance are full of color and drama and this book contains it all. A wonderful assortment of various authors from the time period! Highly recommend even if this isnt your thing. Never hurts to broaden your reading and experiences!

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MommaMia

GREAT COLLECTION

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2008

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This book was ordered for my son for a college class he was in last year, but I have since taken it and added it to my collection and I've enjoyed picking it up now and then and reading selections. It's not something you need to read all at once, but you could place in your kitchen for when you are waiting for water to boil and you need something to occupy yourself...or when you are waiting for a phone call, and you have time to kill...all those moments when a long book won't do, but a selection from this textbook will satisfy.

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MikeT

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2015

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Overall a great book, the condition was excellent and there was no writing in it...

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2008

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A textbook for an Italian Renaissance course. It is a group of essays from renaissance personalities. Some of them I found very interesting and on point for the subject to be discussed in class.

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Alissa Johnston

Love the Renaissance

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2011

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This book was great for my Italian history and film class. The professors really knew a lot about the topic and it was clear that they had learned a lot of the information from this book

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is what heaven looked like after a merger with hell

Reviewed in India on March 22, 2017

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the reniassance was a many headed beast. it has fanatics and blood thirsty ideologues . it had saints leading its charge. there were geniuses and rabble rousers.all of them in one place, is what heaven looked like after a merger with hell.

the winnowing of the grain from the chaff is what bad curators do. most of the interesting aspects of the Renaissance are hidden in the chaff.

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High-Quality content

Reviewed in Germany on June 3, 2021

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Took a while to arrive, but it was worth it. The quality of the book and the writing is very good. The content is equally rich and insightful.

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very beauty

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very beauty

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easy, cheap

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quick, easy, cheap.

Costas Kalotaris

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2014

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good

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