Renaissance philosophy

References and further reading

	Copenhaver, B. and Schmitt, C.B. (1992) Renaissance Philosophy, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (A very readable and reliable general account.)
	Garber, D. and Ayers, M. (1998) The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2 vols. (A monumental work, arranged thematically; contains much useful material about the transition from the Renaissance to the early modern period.)
	Grendler, P.F. (1999) Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, New York: Scribner’s in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 6 vols. (An invaluable resource for all aspects of the Renaissance, including philosophy and science.)
	Kraye, J. (1996) The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Belongs to the Cambridge Companions to Literature series but several of the essays are directly relevant to philosophy.)
	Kraye, J. (1997) Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts. Vol.I. Moral Philosophy. Vol.II. Political Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Forty new translations of works on moral and political philosophy with introductions and bibliographies; to be used as a companion to The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy.)
	Kraye, J. and Stone, M.W.F. (2000) Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge. (A series of essays intended to show the influence of humanism on early modern philosophy.)
	Kristeller, P.O. (1964) Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (Just one of many works by the leading twentieth-century authority on Renaissance philosophy.)
	Parkinson, G.H.R. (1993) The Renaissance and Seventeenth-century Rationalism, London and New York: Routledge. (Two useful chapters on Renaissance philosophy, one on Renaissance science and mathematics, each with a topically organized bibliography.)
	Renaissance Quarterly. Published four times a year by the Renaissance Society of America. (Articles on philosophy and history of science are rare, but the book reviews are comprehensive.)
	Schmitt, C.B., Skinner, Q. and Kessler, E. (1988) The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A monumental work, arranged thematically.)
	Vivarium. An International Journal for the Philosophy and Intellectual Life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Published twice a year by Brill, Leiden. (Occasional articles on the Renaissance.)