Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
Inferno ~

Petrarch (1304 – 1374)
“Letter to Posterity”
“The Ascent of Mount Ventoux”
Selections from the Canzoniere
Select sonnets ~

Giovanni Bocaccio (1313 – 1375)
Selections from The Decameron ~

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
Notebooks ~

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
The Prince ~