Renaissance Research Project
Literary Sources I
Jonathan Davies
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What literary sources are available to historians of
the Italian Renaissance?
Letter from Vespasiano da Bisticci
to Cosimo de’ Medici
Niccolò Machiavelli
Letter by Petrarch
Francesco Datini
Letter from
Alessandra Strozzi
to her son Filippo
Aeneas Sylvius
Piccolomini,
The Tale of Two
Lovers
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
Raphael, Portrait
of Baldassare
Castiglione
(1478-1529)
Raphael, Portrait
of Guidobaldo da
Montefeltro, duke
of Urbino
(1472-1508)
Raphael, Portrait
of Elisabetta
Gonzaga,
duchess of
Urbino
(1471-1526)
Sala delle veglie,
Palazzo ducale,
Urbino