Humanists
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Petrarch's humanism and the care of the self
Close Readers
The earlier Renaissance
The world of humanism, 1453-1517
Life and letters of Erasmus
Iter Italicum
Adages
Desiderius Erasmus
French humanist tragedy
Her immaculate hand
Giotto and the orators
History of King Richard III
Erasmus of Christendom
A daughter's love
The man who laid the egg
In praise of Aeneas
Petrarch: a humanist among princes
The praise of folly and other writings
The anointment of Dionisio
Collected letters of a Renaissance feminist
The Life of Thomas More (Anne of Green Gables Novels (Audio))
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Science and thought in the fifteenth century
Utopia
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Brugge 1588-Leiden 1614
Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the sixteenth century
Reassessing the Henrician Age
A daughter's love
The essential Erasmus
Erasmus
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