# The Portable Renaissance Reader

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- Book: [The Portable Renaissance Reader](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-bruce-ross/the-portable-renaissance-reader) ([The Portable Renaissance Reader.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-bruce-ross/the-portable-renaissance-reader.md))
- Authors: [James Bruce Ross](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-bruce-ross), [Mary Martin McLaughlin](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-martin-mclaughlin)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4015-061-2
- Pages: 768
- Published: 1977-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini,...