542 Readings in European History BIBLIOGRAPHY General Review of the Period : ADAMS, Civilization, Chapter XV ; LODGE, Close of the Middle Ages, Chapter XXII. Political History : LODGE, Chapter VIII, "Italy in the Fourteenth Century"; Chapter XII, "Milan and Venice in the Fifteenth Cen- tury"; Chapter XIV, "Florence under the Medici." Florence : Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I, Chapter V, " Savona- rola," and Chapter VI, " Machiavelli." Venice: Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I, Chapter VIII. The Papacy : Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I, Chapter VII. Humanism: Cambridge Modern History, Vol. I, Chapter XVI. Extracts from the Writers of the Time: WHITCOMB, Literary Source-Book of the Italian Renaissance. SYMONDS, J. A., Renaissance in Italy, 7 vols. This is by far the most extensive treatment in English of the culture of the Renaissance. It is often brilliant but diffuse. Vol. I, "The Age of the Despots," is the best introduction to the general political and social situation ; Vol. II is on " The Revival of Learning " ; Vol. Ill, " The Fine Arts " ; Vols. IV and V, "Italian Literature"; Vols. VI and VII, "The Catholic Reaction," relate to the sixteenth century. BURCKHARDT, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance. All serious students of the period should be acquainted with this remarkable volume, where the various phases of the Renaissance are treated in a more pro- found and scholarly spirit than in " The Age of the Despots." ARMSTRONG, Lorenzo de* Medici and Florence in the Fifteenth Century (Heroes of the Nations). BROWN, HORATIO, Venice: An Historical Sketch of the Republic. By one well versed in the subject. MRS. OLIPHANT, Makers of Florence. Popular essays on Dante, Giotto, and Savonarola. Also Makers of Venice by the same writer. Of the writers of the time, there are available in English the following : DANTE, Divine Comedy, translated into English prose by Professor C. E. Norton ; and his Banquet, a very interesting but uncompleted treatise on a variety of matters, written in Italian for those who did not know Latin. It is well translated by Miss Katharine Hillard. Pro- fessor Norton has also translated Dante's charming account of his early experiences, 7"he New Life.
