Renaissance Society and Politics

Thursday, April 28, 2022


Detail from the Sistene Chapel, Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam"

Read before class:

  • Leonardo Bruni , “Panegyric to the City of Florence” (CP 142-143)
  • Petrus Paulus Vergerius, “The New Education” (CP 144-147 )
  • Juan Luis Vives, On Assistance to the Poor (CP 148-150)
  • Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies (NAWL 893-98, 908-12)