EXTRA CREDIT BOOKS OPTIONS

Note:  Students who choose these books still must get the books pre-approved by the instructor...
Students in the past have done chapter/ short reading summaries on the following:

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Plato Apology
Plato Crito
Plato Euthyphro
------------------------These can be found in most printings of 'Plato's Dialogues' , 'Five Dialogues of Plato', etc.  Check the library.


Sophocles Antigone (entire play)

Marcus Aurelius Meditations

Pico della Mirandola 'Oration on the Dignity of Man'

Read four of these to equal a chapter.

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574):
Lives of the Artists, selections

1. Cimabue and Giotto
2. Andrea della Cione Orcagna, Spinello, Dello, and Paolo Uccello
3. Luca della Robbia and Lorenzo Ghiberti
4. Filippo di ser Brunelesco
5. Donatello
6. Fra Angelico
7. Filippo Lippi and Boticelli
8. Piero della Francesca and Luca Signorelli
9. Lionardo da Vinci
10. Perugino and Raffaello
11. Titian
12. Michael Angelo

Source.

These texts were at http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~pfitz/ART/REN/VASARI.HTM,but vanished from the net, and so they have been restored here.

I think that these are from one of the Public Domain 19th-century English translation of Vasari, but would welcome confirmation on this point.

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.  Lives of seventy of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects. Edited and annotated in the light of recent discoveries, by E.H. and E.W. Blashfield and A.A. Hopkins. New York, Scribner, 1902 [c1896].

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.  Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects: trans from the Italian of Giorgio Vasari. With notes and illustrations, chiefly selected from various commentators. By Mrs. Jonathan Foster. (London: H. G. Bohn, 1855-85) [with many reprints]

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects, by Giorgio Vasari: newly tr. by Gaston du C. de Vere. With five hundred illustraiions, (London, Macmillan and co., ld. & The Medici society, ld., 1912-15.)

There have been many other versions:

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. The lives of the painters, sculptors and architects. Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. (London, J. M. Dent; New York, Dutton [1949-50]).

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.  Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects. Abridged from the translation by Gaston DuC. DeVere. Edited, with an introd., by Robert N. Linscott. New York, Modern Library [1959].

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Lives of the artists. Selected and translated by E.L. Seeley. Introd. by Alfred Werner. (New York, Noonday Press, [1965, c1957]).

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Lives of the artists; a selection translated by George Bull. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. : Penguin Books, 1987.

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. The lives of the artists; translated with an introduction and notes by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.).

This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history.

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© Paul Halsall, September 1998
halsall@murray.fordham.edu

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