of the Italian Renaissance Edited With an Introduction and Notes By CLARENCE KING MOORE, Ph. D. Professor of Romance Languages The Craftsman Press Rochester, N. Y. 1916 It is hoped that the present edition of Italian prose classics will prove helpful to advanced students of Italian, in acquainting them with some of the literary and political interests of the Italian Renaissance, and that it will stimulate such students to further reading of these prose-masters. With this in view, the editor has, in preparing the selections, chosen consecutive chapters from the beginning of "Il Cortegiano" and "Il Principe" in order that, when there is a desire to read further in either of these works, the continuity of thought may remain unbroken. For the selections from Boccaccio the following texts have been consulted and compared: Pietro Fanfani: Il Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, 2 vols. Firenze, Successori Le Monnier, 1897. d'Ancona e Bacci: Manuale della Letteratura Italiana, Vol. 1, Barbera, Firenze, 1898. |