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Module Reading List
Dr Laura Lucia Rossi
l.l.rossi@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Week 1
Dante Alighieri : four political letters, translated by C. E. Honess (London: MHRA, 2007)
Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence, translated by D. E. Bornstein (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986)
V. Fumagalli, Landscapes of fear : perceptions of nature and the city in the Middle Ages, translated by S. Mitchell (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994)
J. K. Hyde, Society and Politics in Medieval Italy: The Evolution of the Civil Life, 1000-1350 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1973)
J. Larner, Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380 (London & New York: Longman, 1980)
D. Waley, The Italian City-Republics, 3rd edition (London & New York: Longman, 1988)
Week 2
Early Italian texts, edited by C. Dionisotti and C. Grayson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1949)
Dante, Vita nuova, translated with an introduction by M. Musa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Dante, Convivio, translated with an introduction and notes by C. Ryan (Saratoga CA: ANMA Libri, 1989)
Dante, De vulgari eloquentia, edited and translated by S. Botterill (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Week 3
Reference
R. Lansing (ed.), The Dante encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2000) [Italian C-7 DAN/L; available in Brotherton Main Floor 1 and Edward Boyle Level 13]
Biography
S. Bemrose, A new life of Dante (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000) [Italian C-7 DAN/B; available in Brotherton Main Floor 1]
Introductory Studies
R. Jacoff (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
R. Kirkpatrick, Dante : the Divine comedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
J. A. Scott, Understanding Dante (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004)
Boccaccio
Text
For a more modern English translation of the text, see Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, translated by G. H. McWilliam, 2nd edition (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995)
For the Italian text, see Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, ed. by Vittore Branca (Turin: Einaudi, 1980)
Introductory Studies on Boccaccio
R. Hastings, Nature and reason in the Decameron (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1975)
G. Mazzotta, The world at play in Boccaccio's Decameron (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986)
D. Wallace, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
On Women in the Middle Ages
E. Power, Medieval women, ed. by M. M. Postan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
Petrarch
Text
Petrarch's lyric poems : the 'Rime Sparse', and other lyrics, translated and edited by R. Durling (Cambridge MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1976)
T. Griffith & P. Hainsworth (eds), Selected poems (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1971)
Introductory Studies
T. G. Bergin, Petrarch (New York: Twayne, 1970)
K. Foster, Petrarch : poet and humanist (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984)
P. Hainsworth, Petrarch the poet : an introduction to the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (London: Routledge, 1988)
N. Mann, Petrarch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)
Botticelli
General
Arasse, Daniel, Pierluigi De Vecchi and Patrizia Nitti (eds), Botticelli : from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola ( Milan: Skira, 2003)
Ettlinger, Leopold D., and Helen S. Ettlinger, Botticelli (London: Thames and Hudson, 1976)
Lightbown, Ronald, Sandro Botticelli : life and work (London: Thames and Hudson, 1989)
Venturi, Lionello, Botticelli (London: Phaidon, 1972)
Zöllner, Frank, Sandro Botticelli (Munich and New York: Prestel, 2005)
Mythological paintings
Baldini, Umberto, La Primavera del Botticelli : storia di un quadro e di un restauro (Milan: Mondadori, 1984)
Bellingham, David, 'Deconstructing Aphrodite: Botticelli's Venus and Mars in the National Gallery, London', in Amy C. Smith and Sadie Pickup (eds), Brill's Companion to Aphrodite (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 347-74
Dempsey, Charles, The portrayal of love : Botticelli's "Primavera" and humanist culture at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
Gombrich, Ernst H., ‘Botticelli’s Mythologies: A Study of the Neoplatonic Symbolism of his Circles’, in Symbolic images (London: Phaidon, 1972), pp. 31-81
Extract available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE.
Levi d’Ancona, Mirella, Due quadri del Botticelli eseguiti per nascite in casa Medici : nuovi interpretazione della "Primavera" e della "Nascita di Venere" (Florence: Olschki, 1992)
Luchs, Alison, ‘A Maenad from Pisa in the Primavera ’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 24 (1980), 369-71
Shearman, John, ‘The Collections of the Younger Branch of the Medici’, Burlington Magazine, 117, no. 862 (Jan. 1975), 12-27
Smith, Smith, Webster, ‘On the Original Location of the Primavera ’, The art bulletin, 57 (1975), 31-40
Snow- Snow-Smith, Joanne, The "Primavera" of Sandro Botticelli : a Neoplatonic interpretation (New York: Lang, 1993)
Online Course Readings
Black, Robert, Renaissance thought : a reader. (London: Routledge, 2001)
Introduction available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE.
Burke, Peter, The Renaissance, 2nd ed. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)
Chapter 1 available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE.
King, Margaret L, Women of the Renaissance. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Chapter 1 available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE.
Olsen, Christina, 'Gross Expenditure: Botticelli's Nastagio degli Onesti Panels', Art History, v.15 (1992), 146-170
Article available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE.
Ricketts, Jill M, Visualizing Boccaccio : studies on illustrations of The Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Chapter 3 available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE.
Rubin, Patricia Lee, Images and identity in fifteenth-century Florence. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
Extract available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE.
This list was last updated on 13/12/2021