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The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, ed. Samuel K. Cohn Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1997), p. 9.

4. Quoted in Rosemary Horrox, ed., The Black Death (Manchester, England, 1994), pp. 18–19.

5. Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, trans. Frances Winwar (New York, 1955), p. xxv.

6. Ibid., p. xxvi.

7. Jean Froissart, Chronicles, ed. and trans. Geoffrey Brereton (Harmondsworth, England, 1968), p. 111.

8. Quoted in James B. Ross and Mary M. McLaughlin, The Portable Medieval Reader (New York, 1949), pp. 218–219.

9. Quoted in Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror (New York, 1978), p. 175.

10. Froissart, Chronicles, p. 212.

11. Ibid., p. 89.

12. Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. McNeal, eds., A Source Book for Medieval History (New York, 1905), p. 288.

13. Quoted in D. S. Chambers, The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380–1580 (London, 1970), p. 30.

14. Quoted in Robert Coogan, Babylon on the Rhône: A Translation of Letters by Dante, Petrarch, and Catherine of Siena (Washington, D.C., 1983), p. 115.

15. Quoted in Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley, Calif., 1987), p. 180.

16. Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, trans. Dorothy Sayers (New York, 1962), “Paradise,” canto 33, line 145.

17. Petrarch, Sonnets and Songs, trans. Anna Maria Armi (New York, 1968), no. 74, p. 127.

18. Quoted in Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death (Princeton, N.J., 1951), p. 161.

19. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, in Th e Portable Chaucer, ed. Theodore Morrison (New York, 1949), p. 67.

20. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. E. Jeffrey Richards (New York, 1982), pp. 83–84.

21. Quoted in Susan Mosher Stuard, “The Dominion of Gender, or How Women Fared in the High Middle Ages,” in Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, and Susan Stuard, eds., Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 3rd ed. (Boston, 1998), p. 147.

22. Quoted in David Herlihy, “Medieval Children,” in Bede K. Lackner and Kenneth R. Philp, eds., Essays on Medieval Civilization (Austin, Tex., 1978), p. 121.

23. Quoted in Jean Gimpel, The Medieval Machine (New York, 1976), p. 168.

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1. Quoted in Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S. G. C. Middlemore (London, 1960), p. 81.

2. Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, trans. Charles S. Singleton (Garden City, N.Y., 1959), pp. 288–289.

3. Quoted in De Lamar Jensen, Renaissance Europe (Lexington, Mass., 1981), p. 94.

4. Quoted in Iris Origo, “The Domestic Enemy: Th e Eastern Slaves in Tuscany in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Speculum 30 (1955): 333.

5. Quoted in Gene Brucker, ed., Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence (New York, 1967), p. 132.

6. Quoted in Margaret L. King, Women of the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991), p. 3.

7. Quoted in Gene Brucker, ed., The Society of Renaissance Florence (New York, 1971), p. 190.

8. Quoted in Garrett Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy (Baltimore, 1964), p. 42.

9. Ibid., p. 95.

10. Niccolò Machiavelli, Th e Prince, trans. David Wootton (Indianapolis, 1995), p. 48.

11. Ibid., p. 55.

12. Ibid., p. 27.

13. Petrarch, “Epistle to Posterity,” Letters from Petrarch, trans. Morris Bishop (Bloomington, Ind., 1966), pp. 6–7.

14. Quoted in Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Chicago, 1964), p. 211.

15. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man, in E. Cassirer, P. O. Kristeller, and J. H. Randall Jr., eds., The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (Chicago, 1948), p. 225.

16. Ibid., pp. 247, 249.

17. Quoted in W. H. Woodward, Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators (Cambridge, 1897), p. 102.

18. Quoted in Iris Origo, The Light of the Past (New York, 1959), p. 136.

19. Quoted in Elizabeth G. Holt, ed., A Documentary History of Art (Garden City, N.Y., 1957), vol. 1, p. 286.

20. Quoted in Rosa M. Letts, The Cambridge Introduction to Art: Th e Renaissance (Cambridge, 1981), p. 86.

21. Quoted in Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (Garden City, N.Y., 1956),

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