James Wyatt Cook, Encyclopedia Of Renaissance Literature
ISBN: 0816056242 | edition 2005 | PDF | 625 pages | 3 mb
ISBN: 0816056242 | edition 2005 | PDF | 625 pages | 3 mb
Grade 10 Up-Both volumes begin with an overview of the era, followed by alphabetical entries offering information on authors, works, places, events, and terminology. Most of the entries provide dates, additional names, and a bibliography; some also contain brief quotations from the works. Renaissance spans the years between 1500 and 1700 and covers works in many European and Asian languages as well as a few African languages. Individuals featured include Giovanni Boccaccio, John Bunyan, John Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Dryden, and Edmund Spenser.