I. Petrarch, "Ascent of Mount Ventoux," Renaissance Philosophy of Man, edited by Cassirer et. al., 36-46.
Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man," Renaissance Philosophy of Man, 215-254.
Erwin Panofsky, "Renaissance and Renaissances," (Pamphlet).
Rice/Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe. 1-18; 45-89.
Lecture: Introducing the Renaissance (Steinman).

II. Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies, 3-32; 36-51; 62-64; 67-77; 86-95; 110-113; 117-120; 142-150; 153-156; 160-162; 164-168; 184-190; 217-222; 254-257.
Lecture: Christine de Pizan as City Planner (Steinman).

III. Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 90-104.
Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy, 1-108.
Randolph Starn and Loren Patridge, Arts of Power, 83-148 (reserve).
Lecture: Art of the Renaissance (Parshall).

IV. Castiglione, Book of the Courtier, Prologue, 31-36; Book I, 39-45, 51-98, 102-104; Book II, 107-133, 199-202; Book III, 208-231, 274-277; Book IV, 281-282, 288-304, 315-345.
Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 18-44, 90-109.
Lecture: Of Counsel and of the Counselor (Sacks).

V. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, pp. 110-45.
Lecture: Five Machiavellian Myths (Bedau).

VI. Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly.
Lecture: Rhetoric and Fools (Steinman).

VII. Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain, 88-99, 107-118, 166-188, 189-204.
Bartolome Las Casas, "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," (pamphlet).
Hernan Cortes, "The Letters of Cortes, Selections" (pamphlet).
Inga Clendinnen, "Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty" (pamphlet)
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest, edited by Migue Leon-Portilla, 3-144.
Lecture: Confronting New Worlds (Knapp).

FALL BREAK 19-27 OCTOBER

VIII. Thomas More, Utopia.
Lecture: The Best Form of a Commonwealth (Sacks).

IX. Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel: 1) Pantagruel, Prologue and chapters 1-9, 16, 23-34 and
2) Gargantua, Prologue and chapters 1, 3-8, 14-17, 21-32, 34-36, 48-57.
Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 59-101 (reserve).
Lecture: The Invention of Literature (Knapp).

X. Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms.
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, "Reasons of Misrule" and "Women on Top," 97-151.
Lecture: Culture, High and Low and Middle (Sacks).

XI. M. Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian" in Luther, Three Treatises, 277-316 (reserve).
Luther and Erasmus, "Free Will and Salvation," 35-51, 68-69, 89-91, 101-144, 169-173, 208-215, 246-249, 329-334 (pamphlet).
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture, "The Rites of Violence," 152-187.
Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 146-177.
Lecture: Human Freedom and Divine Necessity: Erasmus vs. Luther (Bedau).

XII. Luther, "Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants" (pamphlet).
S. Lotzer, "Twelve Articles of the Peasantry," (pamphlet).
John Sleidan, The General History of the Reformation (1555), selections (pamphlet).
Steven Ozment, Reformation in the Cities, chap. 2 (reserve).
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture, "City Women and Religious Change," 65-95.
Jean Calvin, "Of Eternal Election" (pamphlet).
Lecture: Reformation and Society (Knapp).

XIII. Michel de Montaigne, Essays: "On the Power of Imagination," "On Cannibals," "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "On Experience."
Lecture: The Complexity of Montaigne's Skepticism (Bedau).

Books for Purchase
E. Rice and A. Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe (Norton).
Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies (Persea).
M. Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy (Oxford).
Castiglione, Book of the Courtier (Penguin).
Machiavelli, The Prince (Cambridge).
Erasmus, Praise of Folly (Penguin).
Thomas More, Utopia (Cambridge).
Bernal Diaz, Conquest of New Spain (Penguin).
Migue Leon Portilla ed., The Broken Spears (Beacon).
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin).
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms (Johns Hopkins).
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford).
M. de Montaigne, Essays (Penguin).

Recommended But Not Required

E. Cassirer, Renaissance Philosophy of Man (Yale).

All readings not required for purchase will be placed on reserve in the Library. In some cases a limited number of copies of books for purchase will also be available on reserve. For your convenience reserve books will be on two-hour desk reserve. Lectures will be on Tuesdays unless announced otherwise in class.

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