Medieval and Renaissance Studies

✍ Scribed by Theodor E. Mommsen

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 392
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface, V
Introduction, by Frederick George Marcham, VII

Part I. Studies in the Diplomatic and Military H istory of Italy and the Empire, 1316-1687

1. The Hahs burg-Angevin Marriage Alliance of 1316, 3
2. Castruccio Castracani and the Empire, 19
3. The Accession of the Helvetian Federation to the Holy League: An Unpublished Bull of Pope Julius II of March 17,1512 33
4. The Venetians in Athens and the Destruction of the
   Parthenon m 1687 50
   Part II. Petrarchan Studies
5. An Introduction to Petrarch' s Sonnets and Songs 73
6. An Early Repre sentation of Petrarch as Poet Laureate 101
7. Petrarch's Conception of the "Dar k Ages" . 106
8. Petrarch and th e Decor ation of the Sala Virorum
   Illustrium in Padua 130
   g. Petrarch and the Story of the Choice of Hercules 175
9. The Last Will: A Personal Document of Petrarch 's
   Old Age 197
10. Rudolph Agricola's Life of Petrarch. 236
    Part III. Studies in Early Christian Historiography
    , 12. St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progr ess: The
    Background of The City of God . 265
11. Aponius and Orosi us on the Significance of the
    Epiphany 299
    •14. Orosius and Augustine 325
    Bibliography of the Writings of Theodor E. Mommsen 349