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HIS357H5: The European Renaissance

A Sample Process of Finding a Complete Edition of A Primary Source

1) Before you start searching any primary sources, carefully read the assignment instruction, Pages 9 and 11, for example.

Page 9 notes:

Page 11 says:

2) Following the assignment instruction, decide which single primary source you would like to use. Let's say you picked Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513) in Renaissance Humanism: an Anthology of Sources (pp. 141-147) because you read it for Week 5 (See Page 7 of your syllabus or the screenshot below). This book only includes Chapters 15-19.

3) You need to find the complete primary source. You need to find the same translation of The Prince.

The note says that the translation in Renaissance Humanism: an Anthology of Sources came from Machiavelli, The Prince translated by David Wooton (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1995). 

So, you should enter David Wooton "The Prince" in LibrarySearch. Surprisingly, you don't get any. Why? Because the name of the translator was misspelled. Enter David Wootton "The Prince". Then you will find the complete edition of the primary source.


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