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Contents......Page 8
Chronology......Page 13
Preface to Volume One......Page 18
Introduction to Section I......Page 20
Introduction......Page 26
1. Genesis 22:1–18......Page 27
2. Exodus 20:1–21......Page 28
3. Job 38, 40, and 42......Page 30
4. Psalms 8 and 139......Page 32
5. Isaiah 40 and 55......Page 34
Introduction......Page 37
1. Homer, Iliad (c. 800–700 BCE)......Page 41
2. Hesiod, Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)......Page 48
3. Sappho, Poems and Fragments (c. 650 BCE)......Page 53
4. Aeschylus, Agamemnon (c. 458 BCE)......Page 56
5. Sophocles, Oedipus the King (c. 428–425 BCE)......Page 65
6. Euripides, Medea (431 BCE)......Page 73
7. Aristophanes, Clouds (423 BCE)......Page 81
8. Plato, Phaedo (c. 380–360 BCE)......Page 90
Chapter 3. Roman Innovations......Page 94
Introduction......Page 95
1. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (59 BCE)......Page 97
2. Catullus, Poems (before 54 BCE)......Page 102
3. Ovid, Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE)......Page 105
4. Virgil, Aeneid (c. 29–19 BCE)......Page 112
5. Cicero, Fourth Philippic (December 20, 44 BCE)......Page 119
6. Seneca, Consolation to His Mother Helvia (c. 40–45 CE)......Page 124
7. Tacitus, Agricola and Germania (c. 98 CE)......Page 129
8. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (167 CE)......Page 134
Introduction......Page 139
1. Matthew 5......Page 140
2. John 3:1–21......Page 142
3. Acts 17:16–31......Page 144
4. Revelation 21......Page 145
Introduction to Section II......Page 148
Introduction......Page 153
1. Saint Augustine, Confessions (397)......Page 159
2. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 526)......Page 164
3. Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, Sapientia (c. 970)......Page 170
4. Hildegard of Bingen, Know the Ways (1141–1151)......Page 177
5. Peter Abelard, Story of My Misfortunes (c. 1130)......Page 182
6. Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1430–1436)......Page 187
7. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (c. 1420–1427)......Page 191
Introduction......Page 196
1. Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (c. 817–836)......Page 201
2. Beowulf (c. 975–c. 1025)......Page 206
3. Song of Roland (c. 1040–c. 1115)......Page 212
4. Song of My Cid (c. 1140–1207)......Page 219
5. Marie de France, Lanval (c. 1155–1189)......Page 224
6. Andreas Capellanus, Art of Courtly Love (1184–1186)......Page 229
Introduction......Page 234
1. Marco Polo, The Description of the World (1298)......Page 239
2. Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy: Inferno (c. 1308–1320)......Page 244
3. Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron (1349–1351)......Page 251
4. Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (c. 1380–1400)......Page 255
5. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)......Page 261
Introduction to Section III......Page 266
Introduction......Page 270
1. Francis Petrarch, Letters to Cicero and Homer (1345, 1360) and Sonnets (1327–1368)......Page 275
2. Leonardo Bruni, In Praise of the City of Florence (1404)......Page 282
3. Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino Veronese (1416)......Page 287
4. Lauro Quirini, Letter to Pope Nicholas V on the Fall of Constantinople (1453)......Page 291
5. Cassandra Fedele, Oration in Praise of Literary Studies (1487)......Page 296
Introduction......Page 300
1. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)......Page 304
2. Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1518)......Page 309
3. Desiderius Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516)......Page 314
4. Thomas More, Utopia (1516)......Page 319
Chapter 10. The Renaissance Literary Harvest: The Continent......Page 324
Introduction......Page 325
1. Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso (Roland Goes Mad, 1516/1521/1532)......Page 329
2. François Rabelais, Gargantua (1534/1535)......Page 335
3. Michel de Montaigne, Essays (1580, 1587–1588)......Page 340
4. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605/1615)......Page 345
Introduction......Page 351
1. Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (c. 1582)......Page 356
2. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1587/1588)......Page 361
3. William Shakespeare, Soliloquies (1594–1601) and Sonnets (1609)......Page 369
4. John Donne, Songs and Sonnets and Holy Sonnets (1633)......Page 378
Introduction to Section IV......Page 382
Introduction......Page 386
1. Amerigo Vespucci, New World (1502/1503)......Page 392
2. Hernán Cortés, Second Letter of Relation (1520)......Page 397
3. Garcilaso de la Vega “the Inca,” Royal Commentaries of the Incas (1609, 1616–1617)......Page 402
4. Saint Francis Xavier, Letter to His Jesuit Colleagues (1552)......Page 407
5. Luís de Camões, The Lusiads (1572)......Page 411
6. Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)......Page 416
7. Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (1688)......Page 420
Introduction......Page 425
1. Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron (1558)......Page 431
2. Anonymous, The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)......Page 436
3. Saint Teresa of Ávila, The Book of Her Life (1565)......Page 440
4. María de Zayas y Sotomayor, Tales of Disillusion (1647)......Page 445
5. Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women (1600)......Page 449
6. Sarra Copia Sulam, Manifesto on the Immortality of the Soul (1621)......Page 452
7. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems (c. 1669–1694)......Page 457
Introduction......Page 462
1. Pedro Calderón de la Barca, The Mayor of Zalamea (1640)......Page 466
2. Molière, The Misanthrope (1666)......Page 473
3. John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671)......Page 480
Credits......Page 489
INDEX......Page 492