Portable Renaissance Reader, The

very beauty

Took a while to arrive, but it was worth it. The quality of the book and the writing is very good. The content is equally rich and insightful.

quick, easy, cheap.

good

This book was ordered for my son for a college class he was in last year, but I have since taken it and added it to my collection and I've enjoyed picking it up now and then and reading selections. It's not something you need to read all at once, but you could place in your kitchen for when you are waiting for water to boil and you need something to occupy yourself...or when you are waiting for a phone call, and you have time to kill...all those moments when a long book won't do, but a selection from this textbook will satisfy.

All these "Readers" are absolutely wonderful, intensely interesting, and terrific for training apprentice historians. Now Amazon asked a lot of questions about the author and content -- pure silliness on their part. It is an anthology of original Renaissance documents.