1. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
2. Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374)
Il Canzoniere, poems 1-5, 30, 189, 272, 365
3. Leonardo Bruni (ca. 1370-1444)
4. Pope Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, 1405-1464)
5. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Prince, dedicatory letter and chapters 7, 15, 17-18, 25-6
6. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Decameron II, 5 (story of Andreuccio)
7. Allessandra Macinghi Strozzi (1407-1471)
8. Francesco Vettori (1474-1539)
Two letters between Machiavelli and Vettori
Decameron X, 10 (story of Griselda)
10. Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454)
On Wifely Duties, preface: II, 1, 3-5, 9
11. Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457)
On the Donation of Constantine
12. Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)
Three Books on Life I, 7: II, 10-13
13. Laura Cereta (1469-1499)
14. Pietro Alcionio (ca. 1490-1528)
Oration Concerning the Sack of Rome
15. Isabella d'Este (1474-1539)
Selected letters on collecting art
16. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
17. Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)
Book of the Courtier IV, 4-26
18. Pierio Valeriano (1477-1558)
On the Ill Fortune of Learned Men I, 1-14.
