/lit/ - Literature

>>17849759
Montaigne and Rabelais are the best, the rest are shit, maybe Orlando Furioso.

>>17849820
I forgot Machiavelo

>genealogy of the pagan gods
>history of the florentine people
based. I feel like Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography should be included though

Thanks this looks good. Alberti also wrote a comedy called Momus which I really enjoyed and besides that there is the epic Christiad by vida which inspired both Tasso and Milton's epic poems.

>>17849820
Das Lusiadas too

>>17849890
Os* Lusíadas

>>17849839
Machiavelli*

>>17849820
but aren't they french tho?

>>17849840
It's down there with Girolamo Cardano's autobiography

>>17849844
>Alberti also wrote a comedy called Momus which I really enjoyed
Yes it was a hard choice to include only the Ten Books of Architecture, considering how many different things Alberti wrote.
>Christiad by Vida
A lot of epic poems were written in that period, another famous one is Italy liberated from the Goths by Trissino, but it really has no value for a present day reader. The only good ones are Orlando Innamorato, Orlando Furioso, Jerusalem Delivered, Morgante and Baldo.

>>17849759
Is there an Italian book That is short and understandable for someone learning it? T
T. Noob

>>17849820
How are they Italian

>>17849759
Who's gonna read 100 books from this one period when 90% are mediocre lmao not even the Ancient Greece chart has so many books

pull down thy vanity mario pull down

>>17849982
They're just great/good books from a key period spanning over three centuries, what did you expect? The chart is for anyone who wants to discover more about the Renaissance, there's not written "Read all of these".
Also, as it usually happens, the chart is designed to show you the major works at the top, so you can go straight to Ariosto, Tasso, Vasari, Michelangelo, Ficino, or the court poetry of the 15th century.

>>17850032
It would be more useful if it had a more informative layout and more curation like pic related. Right now it looks like a dump but I guess it's honest work at least

>>17850041
It is a matter of perspectives. Since I'm Italian I don't need to know that Aristophanes is a comedian and Thucydides a historian, this is basic aquired knowledge from public middle school. But I understand that someone across the Atlantic might not have the same grasp of European literary history, so I'm inclined to welcome your criticism. I could make another chart with less books divided by genres.

(It's not a dump anyway, the books are arranged with an implicit guiding thread. For example a1-a4 are epic poems, b1-b4 are about artists/art, b5-b8 are for Neoplatonic philosophy, historians like Guicciardini and Bruni are close to each other, same with courtier manuals like Castiglione's and Galateo, etc. But, again, I understand it's not immediately obvious).

Whats a good bit of theory for someone interested in art and high culture more then the daily lives of peasants or whatever. Burckhardt was alright, glad i've read him, but i'd love something completely different.

>>17849759
that is amazing, thanks a lot!

>>17849759
>No Ragionamenti

Still very nice job, anon

>>17850595
Pretty sure the first row of critical theory is what you're looking for (they're grouped together for that reason). I recommend Edgar Wind and Frances Yates. James Hankins also wrote a few tomes about the revival of Plato in Renaissance Italy.

>>17849759
>full size is 31mb
What do you think you're doing?

>>17851726
t. dumb phoneposter

>>17849820
>Italian Renaissance
>retard namedropping Montaigne and Rabelais
You can't make this shit up

>>17849820
Teofilo Folengo (a.k.a. Merlin Coccai) is the Italian Rabelais.

>>17851769
You do know I'm referring to
> Full size picture: ibb.co tQ4fzP4
right?

>>17852540
I know, but I don't see the problem if you download the chart on your computer. It's 3912 x 6384, so that you can zoom as much as you want and read the smallest words on the covers.

>>17849759

contains Cardano's autobio AND the Ars Magna

Nice, I have those. Shouldn't Vico be here or did I miss it?

>>17854217
Vico is more a forerunner of the Enlightenment than a Renaissance thinker

>>17854276

Yeah, I considered that he might be a bit later after I posted. Still, he spends his entire time citing classical thinkers so he's at least in similar thematic territory.

>>17854300
>he spends his entire time citing classical thinkers
That's true and it's something that Galileo also does

>>17849759
based
need more Ficino
his commentary on Plato's Symposium at least needs to be added

>>17854321
I couldn't decide between the Commentaries and the Three Books on Life. At the end I chose the latter because it's more different from Platonic Theology. All great stuff anyway.