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 59 6 THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE EXERCISES AND READINGS Secondary Accounts of the Renaissance. Sedgwick. Short History of Italy, chaps, xrx-xxvm, pp. 182-292. Munro and Sellery. Medieval Civilization, pp. 277-84, Voigt, "Classical Learning in the Middle Ages" ; pp. 285-309, Graf, "The Latin Classics in the Middle Ages"; pp. 474-90, Gebhart, "Antecedents of the Renaissance"; pp. 524-46. Neumann, "Relation of Antiquity to the Renaissance." (This last selection is especially good.) Cambridge Modern History, vol. I, 532-68, Jebb, "The Classical Renais- sance in Italy." J. A. Symonds, The Age of the Despots; chap. m. "The Despots": iv. "The Republics"; v, "Florentine Historians"; vii, "Popes of the Renaissance." Symonds. Short History of the Italian Renaissance (an abridgment of The Age of the Despots and Symonds's other works on the Italian Renaissance); chap, in, "Rule of the Despots"; iv, " Popes of the Renaissance"; vm, "Florentine Historians"; IX, x, xi, "The Hu- manists"; xm, "Vernacular Literature." Venice: The Council of Ten. H. E. Brown, Venice; an Historical Sketch (2d edition, 1895), pp. 176- 83. Venetian Civilization. W. R. Thayer, Short History of Venice, chaps, x and xi. Florence and the Medici. Lodge, The Close of the Middle Ages, chap, xrv, pp. 288-314. Ewart, Cosimo de* Medici, any chapter. Armstrong, Lorenzo de' Medici; especially chapters ix and x on literature and art. Letters of Petrarch. Robinson, Readings in European History, vol. I, pp. 524-28; or more fully in Robinson and Rolfe, Petrarch. Other Source Readings. Whitcomb, A Literary Source Book of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 15- 24, 27-29, 35-36, 40-62, 91-101. Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier has been translated into English by Opdycke. Some of the Italian romantic epics, too, have been translated into English verse. Machiavelli, The Prince (English translation). This little work can al- most be read through at one sitting. Some of its examples and allusions can be better understood after reading the last chapter of this book.