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The Renaissance

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Below are the titles of Renaissance texts that Annotated has produced editions on or is in the process of editing, along with suggested resources for each of those texts. We prioritize the production of our editions according to the texts most commonly used in middle school, high school, and college classrooms as well as those for which we receive sponsorship and frequent requests.

 

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Featured Edition

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The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck

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Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321).

The Divine Comedy (~1308-1320) by Dante Alighieri

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Petrarch, Francesco (1304-1374). Selected Writings

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Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375). The Decameron (1353)

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Anonymous. The Mabinogion (14th century)

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Anonymous. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th Cent.)

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Chaucer, Geoffrey (~1340-1400).

The Canterbury Tales (~1387-1400) by Geoffrey Chaucer

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de Pizan, Christine (1364-1430). The City of Ladies (1405)

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Kempe, Margery (1373-1438). Selected Writings

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van Eyck, Jan (1395-1441). The Arnolfini Portrait (1434)

Annotated™ Edition: The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck

• Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Portrait (National Gallery)

• Jan van Eyck (The National Gallery)

• Jan van Eyck by Alfred Acres (Oxford Bibliographies)

• Jan van Eyck by Linda Seidel (Oxford Bibliographies)

• Early Netherlandish Art (Oxford Bibliographies)

• No. 20: Jan van Eyck (The Modern Art Notes Podcast)

• In Our Time - The Renaissance (BBC Podcast)

• Decoding Fashion in Paintings (Art Matters Podcast)

• Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (National Gallery Video)

• Under van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (National Gallery)

• Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait (SmartHistory Video)

• The Arnolfini Portrait (The 5 Minute Lectures)

• Artists in a Nutshell: Jan van Eyck (Podcast)

• Jan van Eyck: The Mystic Lamb (Renaissance Podcast)

• Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art: Jan van Eyck

• Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini "Wedding" Portrait

• Smoke & mirrors: How Renaissance Painters Got it Right

• Jan van Eyck (ArtCyclopedia)

• Jan van Eyck (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

• Jan van Eyck Chronology (Flemish Primitives)

• The Meaning of van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (Culture Trip)

• Jan van Eyck (WikiArt)

• Jan van Eyck (Artble)

• Every Picture Tells a Story: The Arnolfini Marriage (Doc)

• Northern Renaissance: The Supreme Art (BBC Doc)

• The Annunciation: Private Life of a Masterpiece (BBC)

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Erasmus, Desiderus (~1466-1536). Selected Writings

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Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527). Selected Writings

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More, Thomas (1478-1535). Utopia (1516)

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Castiglione, Baldesar (1478-1529).

The Book of the Courtier (1528) by Baldesar Castiglione

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de Navarre, Marguerite (1492-1549). Heptaméron (1558)

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Rabelais, Francois (~1494-1553). Selected Writings

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