Readings: The Renaissance

1. Francisco Petrarch, Letter
2. Niccolo Machiavelli, from The Prince
3. Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
4. Sir Thomas More, Utopia
5. Francois Rabelais, from Gargantua and Pantagruel,
         (World Civilizations Reader, Washington State University)

Internet Resources

• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
• The Galileo Project
  (Rice University)
• Rome Reborn: The Vatican and Renaissance Culture
  ( Library of Congress Exhibits)
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Images
  (Digital Imaging Center, University of Virginia)
• The Sforza Hours
  ( Treasures of the British Library)
• The Codex Arundel: A Notebook of Leonardo da Vinci
  ( Treasures of the British Library)
• Tyndale New Testament
  ( Treasures of the British Library)
• Paracelsus Exhibit