• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Letters of Isabella d'Este. 1. 1479-1499: letters 1-200. 2. 1500-1509: letters 201-420. 3. 1510-1519: letters 421-608. 4. 1520-1529: letters 609-748. 5. 1530-1539: letters 749-830
• Weights, measures and time
• Genealogical tables
• Glossary of names
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index.

Spanning Galileo's entire career, this new collection presents an annotated translation of Galileo's most important writings as judged by their historical impact from the seventeenth century to the present. It thus presents not only those writings that bear most closely on key developments in physics, astronomy, epistemology, and scientific methodology, but those most relevant to general culture as well, including writings on the relationship between science and religion.
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An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller. Leonardo da Vinci artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man-made world. During his life he created numerous works of art and kept voluminous notebooks that detailed his artistic and intellectual pursuits. The collection of writings and art in this magnificent book are drawn from his notebooks. The book organizes his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures, light and shade, perspective and visual perception, anatomy, botany and landscape, geography, the physical sciences and astronomy, architecture, sculpture, and inventions. Nearly every piece of writing throughout the book is keyed to the piece of artwork it describes. The writing and art is selected by art historian H. Anna Suh, who provides fascinating commentary and insight into the material, making "Leonardo's Notebooks" an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring genius.".
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"Momus" is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. Alberti deploys his singular erudition and wit to satirize subjects from court life and politics to philosophy and intellectuals, from grand architectural designs to human and divine folly. The possible contemporary resonance for Alberti's satire - read variously as a humanist roman-a-clef and as a veiled mockery of the mid-Quattrocento papacy - is among its most intriguing aspects. While his more famous books on architecture, painting and family have long been regarded as indispensable to a study of Renaissance culture, "Momus" has attracted increasing attention from scholars as a work anticipating the realism of Machiavelli and the satiric wit of Erasmus. This edition provides a Latin text, based on the two earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes a full translation into English.
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• Francesco Petrarca: Letter to posterity ; the ascent of Mount Ventoux ; Selected poems from the Canzoniere
• Giovanni Boccaccio: Stories from the Decameron
• Leon Battista Alberti: Selections from the Book of the Family
• Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Selections from the Oration on the Dignity of Man
• Leonardo Da Vinci: Selections from the Notebooks
• Baldesar Castiglione: Selections from the Book of the courtier
• Niccolo Machiavelli: Selections from The prince
• Francesco Guicciardini: Selections from the Ricordi
• Benvenuto Cellini: Selections from Cellini's Life
• Michelangelo Buonarroti: Selected poems
• Giorgio Vasari: Selections from Lives of the most famous artists

• Francesco Petrarca
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Leon Battista Alberti
• Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Baldesar Castiglione
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Francesco Guicciardini
• Benvenuto Cellini
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Giorgio Vasari

Presents an exciting and comprehensive selection of writings that represents the most influential works of 11 great Ranaissance Italians

Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame. For example, the famous 'the ends justifies the means' quote is actually a gross exaggeration of what Machiavelli originally wrote, which was 'in the actions of all men...when there is no impartial arbiter, one must consider the final result'.The biggest counterargument Bondanella and Musa can supply is the simple fact that they include a less famous piece Machiavelli did called "The Discourses". This piece is often not mentioned or even casually footnoted because it presents the true Machiavelli - a man who was supportive of a Republic government run by the citizens. Any one who believes Machiavelli is a supporter of despots will be surprised to read him speaking in support for fair and public trials and a balance of power between rulers and their people.
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