On line readings:

Wk 2 Boccaccio, Preface to the Decameron

         Herlihy, article on Family in Renaissance Italy

         Petrarch: Familiar Letters, Ascent of Mt. Ventoux

Wk 3

Vespasiano biography of Cosimo dei Medici

Salutati: Declamation of Lucretia with Livy's version

Letters of Alessandra Strozzi

Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man

Wk 4

Boccaccio, Nastagio degli Onesti

Boccaccio, Griselda

Wk 5

Galateo

Optional:

Martines, Chap 6, "The Course of Urban Values