The Portable Renaissance Reader (The Viking Portable Library, No. 61)

xii, 756 pp. The golden at of Italy and Northern Europe, 1400-1600, shown forth in all its rich diversity in the writings of its acknowledged masters: Boccaccio; Petrarca; Erasmus; Tasso; Cervantes; Montaigne; Machiavelli; Bacon; Rabelais; Ronsard; Cellini; Sidney; Leonardo; Savonarola; Luther; Calvin; and in the letters, poems, essays, and documents of 100 other writers, many of them hitherto unavailable in English. Edited by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin.