The Portable Renaissance Reader

Ross, James Bruce; McLaughlin, Mary M.

ISBN 10: 0140150617 / ISBN 13: 9780140150612

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1977

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Portable Renaissance Reader
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140150617
• ISBN 13: 9780140150612
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1780657421.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 44242422
• Signed: 6/5/2026 11:03:41 AM
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Synopsis

Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.

About the Author

James Bruce Ross was a medieval scholar who contributed 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 the period, 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 to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader.