The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources (Blackwell Essential Readings in History)

About this book

These primary sources open a window onto the ways that women and men in Renaissance Italy sought to communicate their beliefs desires fears and hopes both about their own lives and about the dynamic culture they helped to shape. An ideal complement to Paula Findlens The Italian Renaissance: Essential Readings (Blackwell Publishing 2002). Includes canonical texts alongside newly available ones that give fresh perspectives. Selections address topical issues such as the family strategies of women attitudes towards non-Italians and women as patrons of art. Genres represented include correspondence poetry the story dialogue oratory and autobiography. Brings the teaching of the Italian Renaissance to life showing how citizens communicated about their beliefs desires fears and hopes.