Renaissance: Bibliography

See Burckhardt's oft-translated classic, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860); H. S. Lucas, The Renaissance and the Reformation (2d ed. 1960); J. H. Plumb, The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (1961); D. Weinstein, The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300–1600 (1965); P. A. Ramsey, ed., Rome in the Renaissance (1982); A. B. Giamatti, Exile and Change in Renaissance Literature (1984); J. Snyder, The Northern Renaissance (1985); M. Elsky, Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing and Print in the English Renaissance (1986); J. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1994); L. Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (1996); J. R. Hale, ed., A Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance (1981).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Music
• Rhetoric and Literature
• Science
• Historical Background
• Bibliography

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