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Renaissance Revisions: Recovery and Renewal offers, in its entirety, the third section (chapters 8-11) of Margaret King's The Western Literary Tradition: An Introduction in Texts, Volume 1. Available in eBook format only, it includes the general introduction and annotation to this section along with textual selections arranged chronologically from Petrarch’s Letters to Cicero and Homer and Sonnets (1327–1368) to John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets and Holy Sonnets (1633). Contents covers selections from works by Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lauro Quirini, Cassandra Fedele, Niccolò Machiavelli, Baldassar Castiglione, Erasmus, Ludovico Ariosto, François Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and John Donne. For more information about the The  Western Literary Tradition anthology, including the Table of Contents for the complete volume 1 and all four eBook-only selects from volume  1, visit: www.hackettpublishing.com/literature/anthology.