The age of the renaissance

The Age of the Renaissance: Selected Sources on the History of Italian Culture is a book series dedicated to the Renaissance with selected source texts on the history of Italian culture, which has been published in two series by Verlag Eugen Diederichs in Jena since 1910 , the second from 1914 to 1928 edited by Marie Herzfeld (1855–1940).

Volumes

First series

The main sites of the Renaissance, some personalities and cross-sections through the entire culture

• 1/1 Chronicle of Perugia 1492–1503 / Francesco Matarazzo . 1910 (also 1925)
• 1/2 letter to posterity: conversations about contempt for the world; From his ignorance and that of many people / Francesco Petrarca . 1910 (also 1925)
• 1/3 letters / Pius II. 1911
• 1/4 Alfonso I - Ferrante I of Naples  : writings by Antonio Beccadelli , Tristano Caracciolo , Camillo Porzio / Hermann Hefele . 1912
• 1/5 & 1/6 A Florentine diary, 1450 - 1516: with an anonymous continuation, 1516 - 1542 / Luca Landucci . Trans. And included. by Marie Herzfeld, 2 volumes 1912, 1913
• 1/7 Life of Filippo Maria Visconti / Pier Candido Decembrio . 1913
• 1/8 Roman Diary / Stefano Infessura . 1913
• 1/9 Three Italian comedies from the Renaissance period. 1914 ( La Cassaria , Aridosia , Mandragola / L. Ariosto , Lorenzino de 'Medici , N. Machiavelli ) ( digitized version )
• 1/10 letters / Alessandra Strozzi . Ed. U. a. by Alfred Doren 1927

Second series

Florence from the time of Dante to the Medici Principate

• 2/1 Chronicle of the Dino Compagni of the things that happened in his time / Dino Compagni . 1914 (La cronica di Dino Compagni delle cose occorenti nei tempi suoi) ( digitized version )
• 2/2 Life descriptions of famous men of the Quattrocento / Vespasiano da Bisticci . 1914
• 2/7 Camaldolian Talks / Cristoforo Landino. 1927
• 2/10 Hieronymus Savonarola : Selection from his writings and sermons / Girolamo Savonarola. 1928 (transl. Joseph Schnitzer )

Unpublished volumes

Only 14 of the announced 24 volumes have appeared.

Web links

• Catalog Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen

literature

• Irmgard Heidler: The publisher Eugen Diederichs and his world (1896-1930) (= Mainz studies on book studies , volume 8). 1998 ( partial online view )

Remarks

1. ↑ See the advertising text in the back of the Dino Compagni chronicle ( archive.org ). The following were announced in 1914:
   • 1/10 Pietro Aretino , letters (1/10 now contains the letters of Alessandra Macinghi)
   • 1/11 The Cinquecento and women. Agnolo Firenzuola . About the beauty of women. Ales. Piccolomini Raffaella. Tullia d'Aragona From the infinity of love.
   • 1/12 Poggio Bracciolini , letters.
   • 2/3 Buonaccorso Pittis Chronicle.
   • 2/4 Leon Battista Alberti , From the family.
   • 2/5 Alessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi, letters (published under 1/10)
   • 2/6 Angelo Poliziano , writings.
   • 2/8 Lorenzo de 'Medici , seals.
   • 2/9 Luigi Pulci , Morgante Maggiore , a romantic epic.
   • 2/11 Florentine parades, mystery plays and plays.
   • 2/12 Niccolò Machiavelli , Florentine stories.