The Portable Renaissance Reader

No time in Western history has been more glorified, more disputed and deplored, than the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. certainly this era-the Renaissance-was one of the most eexciting , comples, and fertile in the areas of art, letters, and learning that the world has ever senn. With the aim of showing fourth the people,their ways, and the gems of thier literature, the editors of this volume have chosen selections from more than a hundred writers-selections "which have the power to draw the reader into their world" and many of which are not available else-where in English. An illuminating introduction, useful bibliography, and chronological chart are also included.