Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and
sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes,
Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais,
Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.