Click on the title or page number and you will be transported to that selection, or just click next at the top or bottom of the page and you will go through the book in page order.
From A Literary Source-book of the Renaissance, by Merrick Whitcomb, PH. D., University of Pennsylvania; 1900; pp. iv.
1. DANTE ALIGHIERI : Extract from De Monarchia; Letter to the Princes and Peoples of Italy 1
2. FRANCESCO PETRARCHA : From Epistolæ variæ, No. 25 8
3. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO : Introduction to the Decameron; Novels II and III 15
4. FRANCO SACCHETTI : Novels CXIV, CXV, CXXI, and CCXVI 24
5. POGGIO BRACCIOLINI : Extracts from the Facetiæ; Description of the Death of Jerome of Prague 33
6. LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI : Extract from Il Governo della Famiglia 47
7. AENEAS SYLVIUS : Extract from De Liberorum Educatione 55
8. PLATINA : Extracts from the Lives of the Popes 63
9. VESPASIANO DA BISTICCI : Extracts from the Vite 70
10. LORENZO DE’ MEDICI : Letter to his son Giovanni 80
11. NICOLÒ MACHIAVELLI : Extracts from the Prince 84
12. BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE : Extracts from the Courtier 91
13. MATTEO BANDELLO : Novels VI, XIII, XLI 102
14. BENVENUTO CELLINI : Extracts from the Autobiography 110
1. The Renaissance in Germany 1
2. RUDOLF AGRICOLA : Letter to Barbirianus 12
3. JACOB WIMPHELING : Extracts from Isidoneus, Adolescentia and Agatharchia 23
4. JOHANN REUCHLIN : Letter to Ammerbach 35
5. SEBASTIAN BRANT : Extracts from the Narrenschiff 39
6. MAXIMILIAN I : Extracts from the Weisskunig 42
7. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS : Two Colloquies 47
8. ULRICH VON HUTTEN : Extract from Inspicientes 62
9. LETTERS OF OBSCURE MEN : (Seven Letters) 67
10. JOHANNES BUTZBACH : Extracts from Hodoporicon 80
11. THOMAS PLATTER : Extract from the Autobiography 99