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ITALIAN CITY-STATES On the Italian city-states, see J. M. Najemy, ed., Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300–1550 (Oxford, 2004). There is an enormous literature on Renaissance Florence. A good introduction is J. M. Najemy, History of Flor- ence, 1200–1575 (London, 2006). Machiavelli’s life can be exam- ined in Q. Skinner, Machiavelli (Oxford, 2000).
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM A brief introduction to Renais- sance humanism can be found in C. G. Nauert, Jr., Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe, 2d ed. (Cambridge, 2006). See also R. Mackenny, Renaissances: The Cultures of Italy, c. 1300–c. 1600 (New York, 2004).
RENAISSANCE ART Good surveys of Renaissance art include J. T. Paoletti and G. M. Radke, Art, Power, and Patronage
Notes
1. Quoted in J. Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S. G. C. Middlemore (London, 1960), p. 81.
2. B. Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, trans. C. S. Singleton (Garden City, N.Y., 1959), pp. 288–289.
3. Quoted in D. L. Jensen, Renaissance Europe (Lexington, Mass., 1981), p. 94.
4. G. Brucker, ed., Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence (New York, 1967), p. 132.
5. Quoted in M. L. King, Women of the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991), p. 3.
6. N. Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. D. Wootton (Indianapolis, 1995), p. 48.
in Renaissance Italy, 3d ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2003); C. Bucci and S. Buricchi, Renaissance Art (New York, 2007); R. Turner, Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art (New York, 1997); and P. F. Brown, Art and Life in Renais- sance Venice (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1997).
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS On the political development of Europe in the Renaissance, see C. Mulgan, The Renaissance Monarchies, 1469–1558 (Cambridge, 1998).
THE CHURCH IN THE RENAISSANCE Aspects of the Renais- sance papacy can be examined in G. Noel, The Renaissance Popes (New York, 2006).
7. Ibid., p. 55.
8. G. Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man, in
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. E. Cassirer, P. O.
Kristeller, and J. H. Randall, Jr. (Chicago, 1948), p. 225. 9. Ibid., pp. 247–249.
10. Quoted in I. Origo, The Light of the Past (New York, 1959), p. 136.
11. Quoted in E. G. Holt, ed., A Documentary History of Art (Garden City, N.Y., 1959), vol. 1, p. 286.
12. Quoted in R. M. Letts, The Cambridge Introduction to Art: The Renaissance (Cambridge, 1981), p. 86.
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