| Description |
viii, 310 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Sources in Western civilization, 6 |
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Sources in western civilization ; 6.
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| Contents |
On world government ("De monarchia") / Dante Alighieri -- The defender of the state / Marsiglio of Padua -- The secret, or The soul's conflict with passion / Francesco Petrarca -- The qualities of a free man ("De ingenuis moribus") / Pier Paolo Vergerio -- Of learned ignorance / Nicholas Cusanus -- Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects / Giorgio Vasari -- Memoires / Phillippe de Commines -- Public oration delivered in the University of Ingolstadt / Conrad Celtis -- Third voyage / Christopher Columbus -- The praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus -- A fable about man / Juan Luis Vives -- Discourses, first book / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The freedom of a Christian / Martin Luther -- Letters to Thomas Muntzer / Conrad Grebel and friends -- The institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin -- Confession of faith for the London magistrates / Robert Persons -- Credo and Man and works / Paracelsus -- Turkish letters / Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq -- Of managing one's will / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- The six books of a commonweal / Jean Bodin -- A defense of liberty against tyrants -- England's treasure by foreign trade / Thomas Mun. |
| Subject |
Renaissance.
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Reformation.
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| Added Author |
Weinstein, Donald, 1926-2015.
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