Overview Articles
The Renaissance: An
Overview
Renaissance Art and Science
Church Corruption
The Great Plague
Christian Humanism
Rise of National Monarchies
Dante and the
Italian Communes
Church Corruption and the Conciliar
Movement
Medieval and Renaissance Art
and Architecture
The Copernican Revolution
The Newtonian
Cosmos
Primary Sources
Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio
Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli
Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning
Liberal Studies”
Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Leon Alberti: On Painting
Vespasiano da Bisticci: Portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration
on the Dignity of Man
The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field
Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada
Alhambra Decree
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by
Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael
Sanxis on the Discovery of America
A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da
Gama
Desiderius Erasmus:
The Praise of Folly
Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince
Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions
of the Celestial Spheres
Giorgio Vasari:
“Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine
Painter and Sculptor”
Michel de Montaigne: “Of the Education of Children”
Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger
Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini Concerning Galileo’s
Theories
Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy
