Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 11

Fiero 16

Questions:

• What is humanism?
• Is it better to have a rounded education or a focussed one?
• Can we in principle know everything?
• What does it mean to be modern?

Renaissance and Reformation

• What happened in the Renaissance?
• The Conflicted Renaissance and Reformation
• Reactions Against Medieval Aristoteleanism

Italian Humanism and the Birth of the Renaissance

General Renaissance Sites

• Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
  • Resources for Electronic Research
• Gilbert, William. Renaissance and Reformation
• Italian Renaissance
• Malaspina College Great Books Program: Renaissance: Art, Literature, Music, Political History, Science, Theatre
• Virtual Renaissance

Humanism

• Humanism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Humanistic Texts (Renaissance and other humanism, to Galileo)
• Renaissance Humanism
• Renaissance Humanism (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)

Neo-Platonism

• Renaissance Neo-Platonism

Italy, Politics, and Learning

• Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education, 1400
• Lorenzo de Medici: Paternal Advice to A Cardinal, c. 1491 [lived. 1449-1492],

New Ways of Knowing: The Rise of Science

• Malaspina Great Books Program: Renaissance: Science
• Catalogue of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries - good biographies of Renaissance scientists. Searchable.
• Texts in Renaissance Science - sorted into People, Places, and Topics
• University of Bologna Museum of Astronomy

Renaissance Witchcraft, Magic and Occult

• Witchcraft Documents, inc. the Papal Bull of 1484, Johannes Nider on witches, and extracts from the Malleus malificaram
• Sprenger and Kramer:The Malleus Maleficarum [The Hammer of Witches], 1484, extended excerpts
• Witchcraft Legends, Translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman, [At Pitt]

Important Individuals

• Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1474)
  
  
• Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)
  
  
• Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
  • Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince [excerpts], 1513
  • Machiavelli Online
  • Machiavelli
    
    
• Pico della Mirandola
  • Pico della Mirandola
  • Pico in English: A Bibliography
  • Oration on the Dignity of Man
  • Oration paragraphs 1-7
  • Of Being and Unity
    
    
• Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
  
  
• Petrarch
  • Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
  • Petrarch at 700