The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

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Encyclopedia of the Renaissance

Table of Contents: “…Machiavelli-Petrarchism --…”

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915

“…Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne -- Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood -- William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft -- Dante and Beatrice -- John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor -- Parnell and Kitty O'Shea -- Petrarch and Laura -- Dante Gabriel Ross…”
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Headlines in history the 1300s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Battle of Bannockburn: Scots defeat the english -- Women, land, and inheritance in england -- Crime -- Trade and the hanseatic league -- Victory at sea -- Anti-semitism in Spain -- Deposing King Richard -- Great schism -- Chapter 2 -- Nobles -- Court life -- Serfs -- Peasants in the hundred years' war -- Wat Tyler's rebellion of 1381 -- Chapter 3 -- Famine of 1315-1322 -- Childhood in the fourteenth century -- Catherine of Siena -- Medieval play -- Food in the fourteenth century -- Petrarch -- Religious thought in the fourteenth century -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Religious life -- Chapter 4 -- Plague and the decameron -- Medicine and the plague -- Long-term effects of the plague on society -- Chapter 5 -- Tensions in Japan -- Tughluq dynasty in India -- Ibn Battuta -- Rise of the Ottomans -- Timur -- Aztec empire -- Chapter 6 -- Mansa musa and the magnificence of Mali -- Life and government in Mali -- Chapter 7 -- Establishment of the ming dynasty -- Early ming wars and successions -- Trade in early ming times.…”