RENAISSANCE THOUGHT READING LIST
Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527):
The Prince (1513-1514; 1532)
Lodovico Castelvetro (1505 - 1571):
The Poetics of Aristotle (1570) [pp. 135-141 in Adams]
The Arte of Rhetorique (1560)
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592):
Apology for Raymond Sebond (1575-1580)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586):
An Apology for Poetry (1583; 1595) [pp. 143-162 in Adams; pp. 326-263 in Leitch]