1 THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 613 EXERCISES AND READINGS The Fine Arts. Symonds, Short History of the Renaissance, chap, xn, pp. 197-240. Vasari. The Life by Vasari of any artist mentioned in the foregoing chapter. A recent English edition of Vasari is that of 1907 in four volumes by Blashfield and Hopkins. Berenson, The Study and Criticism of Italian Art, pp. 1-12; "Vasari in the Light of Recent Publications." Brunelleschi's Dome. Sturgis and Frothingham, A History of Architecture, vol. IV, pp. 94-97. Works of Art. The reader should familiarize himself with some of the reproductions of the masterpieces of the Renaissance to be found in the numerous illus- trated histories of art and in special studies on individual artists. Cellini. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, written by Himself. The reader may dip for himself into one of the English translations of this book, or read the selections from it in Whitcomb, A Literary Source Book of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 1 10-18, and Robinson, Readings in European History, vol. 1, pp. 531-34- The Age of Discovery. Cambridge Modern History, vol. 1, chap. 1, pp. 7-36, by E. J. Payne. Portuguese Voyages. Cheyney, European Background of American History, chap, iv, pp. 60- 78, " Pioneer Work of Portugal." K. G. Jayne, Vasco da Gama and his Successors (London, 1910); pp. 1- 32, "The Early Discoveries, c. 1415-1497"; pp. 33~59> " Vasco da Gama's First Voyage." Columbus. E. G. Bourne, Spain in America, chaps, ii-iv, pp. 8-53. Note especially the detailed map of his voyages at pp. 34-35-
