http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/11/30#renaissance <P>See also: <a href="demonology.html">Demonology</a>; <a href="early-modern-europe.html">Early Modern Europe</a> [a superset of the Renaissance]; <a href="erasmus.html">Erasmus</a>; <a href="scientific-revolution.html">Scientific Revolution</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>Jacob Burckhardt, <cite><a href="http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html">The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy</a></cite> <li>Peter Burke, <cite>The Renaissance Sense of the Past</cite> <li>Alfred Crosby, <cite>The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250--1600</cite> <li>S. A. Farmer, <cite>Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 These (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems</cite> <li>Walter Ferguson <em>et al.</em>, <cite>The Renaissance: Six Essays</cite> <li>John R. Hale <ul> <li><cite>The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance</cite> [Pun, and play on Burckhardt, not only intended but appropriate] <li><cite>War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450--1620</cite> </ul> <li>Lisa Jardine, <cite>Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance</cite> [More a collection of examples illustrating the rise of "bravura consumerism," and how it tied in to all the other fun stuff, than a really new history] <li>Paul Oskar Kristeller, <cite>Renaissance Thought</cite> <li>Jay A. Levenson (ed.), <cite>Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration</cite> [Wonderful survey of world art in the Renaissance, worth the price just for the pictures] <li>John F. Padgett and Christopher K. Ansell, "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400--1434", <cite>American Journal of Sociology</citE> <strong>98</strong> (1993): 1259--1319 [<a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2781822">JSTOR</a>] <li>Erwin Panofsky, <cite>Life and Art of Albrecht D&uuml;rer</cite> <li>Sergio Rinaldi, "<a href="http://epubs.siam.org:80/sam-bin/dbq/article/30592">Laura and Petrarch: An Intruiging Case of Cyclical Love Dynamics</a>," <cite>SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics</cite> <strong>58</strong> (1998): 1205--1221 <li>Wayne Shumaker, <cite>The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns</cite> <li>H. R. Trevor-Roper, <cite>Renaissance Essays</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Douglas Biow, <cite>Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14800.ctl">Blurb</a>] <li>Marie Boas, <cite>The Scientific Renaissance, 1450--1630</cite> <li>William J. Bouwsma, <cite>The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550--1640</cite> <li>Jerry Brotton, <cite>The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo</cite> <li>Malcolm Bull, <cite>The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods</cite> <li>Peter Burke, <cite>The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy</cite> <li>Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, <cite>Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/f02/f02crve.htm">Blurb</a>] <li>Nicholas Cusanus, <cite>De Docta Ignorantia</cite> [Translation currently in print as <cite>Nicholas of Cusa on Learned Ignorance</cite>] <li>Allen G. Debus, <cite>Man and Nature in the Renaissance</cite> [<a href="http://www.cup.org/Titles/29/0521293286.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Brendan Dooley, <cite>Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics</cite> [<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7279.html">Blurb, introduction</a>] <li>Samuel Y. Edgerton, <cite>The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution</cite> <li>Luba Freedman, <cite>The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art</cite> <li>A. Bartlett Giamatti, <cite>The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic</cite> <li>Bertrand Gille, <cite>Engineers of the Renaissance</cite> <li>Richard A. Goldthwaite, <cite>Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300--1600</cite> <li>Anthony Grafton [Writes nicely in the <cite>New York Review</cite>, dunno about his books] <ul> <li><cite>Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation</cite> <li><cite>Defenders of the Text</cite> <li><cite>Forgers and Critics</cite> <li><cite>Giordano's Cosmos</cite> <li><cite>Leon Battista Alberti</cite> <li>and Nancy Sirasi (eds.), <cite>Natural Particulars</cite> </ul> <li>Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton, <cite>Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West</cite> <li>Klibansky, Panofsky and Saxl, <cite>Saturn and Melancholy</cite> <li>Kristeller, <cite>Marsilio Ficino</cite> <li>Katherine Crawford Luber, <cite>Albrecht D&uuml;rer and the Venetian Renaissance</cite> <li>Rosamond E. Mack, <cite>Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300--1600</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8806.html">Blurb, intro</a>] <li>Ian Maclean, <cite>The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life</cite> <li>Armando Maggi <ul> <li><cite>In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/171978.ctl">Blurb</a>] <li><cite>Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14260.ctl">Blurb</a>] </ul> <li>John Martin, <cite>Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/5938.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Lauro Martines, <cite>Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy</cite> <li>George T. Matthews (ed.), <cite>News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe: The Fugger Newsletters</cite> <li>H. C. Erik Midelfort, <cite>Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany</cite> <li>Edward Muir, <cite>The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MUICUL.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Charles G. Nauert, <cite>Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/9780521547819">blurb</a>] <li>Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen (eds.), <cite>Difference &amp; Dissent: Theories of Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe</cite> <li>Erwin Panofsky <ul> <li><cite>Perspective as <a href="cassirer.html">Symbolic Form</a></cite> <li><cite>Renaissance and Reanscences in Western Art</cite> <li><cite>Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in Art</cite> </ul> <li>Walter Pater, <cite>The Renaissance</cite> <li>Sarah Gwyneth Ross, <cite>The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ROSBIR.html">blurb</a>] <li>Ingrid D. Rowland, <cite>The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome</cite> <li>George Saliba, <cite>Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0-262-19557-7">blurb</a>; <a href="http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/george_saliba_book_interview_islamic_science_making_european_renaissance/P0/">author's self-presentation</a>] <li>Deborah K. Shuger, <cite>Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture</cite> <li>Jean Seznec, <cite>The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Reanissance Humanism and Art</cite> <li>J. K. J. Thomson, <cite>Decline in History: The European Experience</cite> <li>Dora Thornton, <cite>The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy </cite> [<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?1998081352R">Review by James Fenton</a>] <li>Jessica Wolfe, <cite>Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/0521831873">Blurb</a>] </ul>