Week 5
Administrator | January 31, 2011
Required:
Chapter 13 (The Renaissance)
Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/courcon1.html
Roger Bacon: Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon1.html
Francesco Petrarch: On the Nature of Poetry
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet13.html
Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci, 1550
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.html
The Book of The Courtier
http://web.archive.org/web/20001216150100/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/courtier.htm
Recommended:
Medieval Students’ Songs
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalstudentsongs.html
Roger Bacon: On Experimental Science, 1268
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html
Francesco Petrarch: To Posterity
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch1.html
Petrarch Disclaims All Jealousy of Dante To Boccaccio
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet05.html
Lorenzo De Medici: [...]