Renaissance culture ; a new sense of order, edited by Julian Mates and Eugene Cantelupe.

Contributor Mates, Julian, 1927- ed.

Imprint:New York : G. Braziller, [1966]

Description381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:PART I. THE UNRAVELED TAPESTRY: NEW ORDERING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND HISTORY: Divine order / William Shakespeare -- from Defensor Pacis / Marsilius of Padua -- Becoming a prince by Villainy / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Praise and blame / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Religious influence / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Humility and insolence / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Of the disadvantage of greatness / Michel de Montaigne -- from History of the Wars in Italy / Francesco Guicciardini -- Richard the Third / Raphael Holinshed -- The prosperous reigne of Queene Elizabeth / Raphael Holinshed -- The good lawes of Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- PART II. THE GREEKS AND NATURE: NEW ORDERING OF THE VISUAL ARTS, MUSIC, AND LITERATURE: On painting / Albrecht Dürer -- Food for young painters / Albrecht Dürer -- On landscape painting / Karel van Mander -- Sculpture and painting / Leonardo da Vinci -- from The Four Books of Architecture / Andrea Palladio -- Discourse on ancient music and good singing / Giovanni de' Bardi -- from The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- Sonnets / Petrarch -- Sonnets / Pierre de Ronsard -- Poems / Michelangelo -- Sonnets / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Since there's no help... / Michael Drayton -- from The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The boatwoman / Marguerite de Navarre -- The adventure of the windmills / Miguel de Cervantes -- The knight of La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes -- from Gargantua and Pantagruel / François Rabelais -- The passions of the soul / Michel de Montaigne -- Of studies / Francis Bacon -- Of Building / Francis Bacon -- The perfect courtier / Baldassare Castiglione -- The life of an artist / Benvenuto Cellini -- from An apologie for poetrie / Sir Philip Sidney -- The new art of writing plays / Lope de Vega -- The three cuckolds / Commedia dell' arte scenario -- from The shoemakers' holiday / Thomas Dekker -- PART III. THE HERE AND NOW: NEW ORDERING OF THE SCIENCES: Painting and science / Leonardo da Vinci -- from The Fabrica / Andreas Vesalius -- Of the motion, action, and office of the heart / William Harvey -- Anatomical examination of the body of Thomas Parr / William Harvey -- Letter to the keeper of the privy purse / Christopher Columbus -- The voyages of Sir Francis Drake / Richard Hakluyt -- Astronomical message / Galileo -- Letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany / Galileo -- Nature and man / William Shakespeare -- PART IV. A TRINITY OF IDEAS: NEW ORDERING OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION: from On Immortality / Pietro Pompanazzi -- Commentary on Plato's Symposium / Marsilio Ficino -- Beauty and love / Baldassare Castiglione -- Ere love from Barren Chaos... / Pierre de Ronsard -- Of love / Francis Bacon -- from The Praise of Folly / Desiderius Erasmus -- from Oration on the Dignity of Man / Pico Della Mirandola -- from The Ninety-five Theses / Martin Luther -- The Lord's Supper / Martin Luther -- Articles of faith / John Calvin -- Reforming the church / John Calvin -- Preserving the Purity of the Christian religion / John Calvin -- Of the religions in Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- Degree, priority, and place / William Shakespeare.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p.379-381.

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