The Portable Renaissance Reader
Publishing Details
The Portable Renaissance Reader
By (Author) James Bruce Ross
Edited by Mary Martin McLaughlin
Introduction by James Bruce Ross
Introduction by Mary Martin McLaughlin
Penguin Random House Australia
Penguin Random House Australia
25th August 1977
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
European history
940.21
Physical Properties
768
Width 132mm, Height 196mm, Spine 33mm
508g
Description
Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, D rer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.
Author Bio
James Bruce Ross was a medieval scholar whocontributed 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 theperiod, 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 toThe Portable Medieval ReaderandThe Portable Renaissance Reader.
