Renaissance Quarterly articles from December 2004

Renaissance Quarterly archives from December 2004

The Renaissance Fascination with Error: Mannerism and Early Modern Poetry
December 22, 2004... "If this be error, and upon me prov'd, / I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd." Shakespeare--Sonnet 116, lines 13-14 In his dedicatory epistle to Don Michel de Silva placed at the beginning of Il libro del cortegiano, Baldassarre...

David, Bathsheba, and the Penitential Psalms*
December 22, 2004... 1. In the British Library copy of Miles Coverdale's 1540 Latin and English Psalter, directly above a woodcut printed on the verso of the title page, a Renaissance annotator has carefully inscribed a brief annotation (fig. 1). The annotation...

The Mimesis of Marriage: Dialogue and Intimacy in Erasmus's Matrimonial Writings*
December 22, 2004... In his On the Usefulness of the Colloquies (1526), Erasmus (1467/9-1536) makes an emblematic observation about one of his most popular colloquies, Courtship, a dialogue featuring a young man trying to persuade his girlfriend into marriage: "And...

Finding a Job as a Humanist: The Epistolary Collection of Lapo Da Castiglionchio the Younger*
December 22, 2004... The oft-declared devotion of Renaissance humanists to litterae included--indeed, fed upon--devotion to the genre of the personal letter. Long before Erasmus extended his epistolary cloak over Europe, Italian humanists devoted much of their time...

L'Etude de la Renaissance nunc et cras.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Max Engammare, Saverio Ricci, Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, and Augustin Redondo, eds. L'Etude de la Renaissance nunc et cras. Actes du colloque de la Federation internationale des Societes et Instituts d'Etude de la Renaissance (FISIER)...

The Italian Renaissance in the Twentieth Century: Acts of an International Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 9-11, 1999.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Allen J. Grieco, Michael Rocke, and Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi, eds. The Italian Renaissance in the Twentieth Century: Acts of an International Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 9-11, 1999. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002, viii +...

Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Eric G. Haywood, ed. Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2003. 252 pp. index. append. tbls. $55. ISBN: 1-85182-662-9. Latest in an outstanding series of publications on...

The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... William J. Kennedy. The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England. Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiv + 384 pp. index. bibl. $45....

Famous Women.(Momus)(Biographical Writings)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Giovanni Boccaccio. Famous Women. Ed. and Trans. Virginia Brown. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 1. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. xxv + 530 pp. index. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-00347-0. Leon Battista...

Studia Albertiana: Lectures et lecteurs de L.B. Alberti.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Francesco Furlan. Studia Albertiana: Lectures et lecteurs de L.B. Alberti. Nova Humanistica. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2003. 336 pp. [euro]32. ISBN: 2-7116-1614-2. Francesco Furlan is one of today's most prominent and...

Pius II--"El Piu Expeditivo Pontifice": Selected Studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464).(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Zweder R. W. M. von Martels and Arjo J. Vanderjagt, eds. Pius II--"El Piu Expeditivo Pontifice": Selected Studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464). Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. X + 262 pp. index. $105....

Il Platone latino. Il Parmenide: Giorgio di Trebisonda e il cardinale Cusano.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Ilario Ruocco, ed., Il Platone latino. Il Parmenide: Giorgio di Trebisonda e il cardinale Cusano. Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria": Studi 203. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore. 2003. 108 pp. index. append. [euro]15....

La scepsi, il sapere e l'anima: Dissonanze nella cerchia laurenziana.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Anna De Pace. La scepsi, il sapere e l'anima: Dissonanze nella cerchia laurenziana. Il Filarete: Pubblicazioni della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universita degli Studi di Milano 208. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere...

Tasso, Plotino, Ficino: In margine ad un postillato.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Erminia Ardissino. Tasso, Plotino, Ficino: In margine ad un postillato. Temi e testi 48. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003. 194 pp. index. [euro]24. ISBN. 88-8498-117-4. Funded in part by a coveted fellowship from the...

Une "Fantaisie" sur l'Antique: Le gout pour l'epigraphie funeraire dans l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili de Francesco Colonna.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Martine Furno. Une "Fantaisie" sur l'Antique: Le gout pour l'epigraphie funeraire dans l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili de Francesco Colonna. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 377. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2003. 333 pp. +21 b/w pls....

Studi sull'Aristotelismo del Rinascimento.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Luca Bianchi. Studi sull'Aristotelismo del Rinascimento. Subsidia mediaevalia patavina 5. Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2003. 236 pp. index, append. [euro]24. ISBN: 88-7115-274-3. In seven masterly chapters--most of which reprint and update...

L'incarnazione del Macaronico: Percorsi nel Comico Folenghiano.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Massimo Scalabrini. L'incarnazione del macaronico: Percorsi nel comico folenghiano. Urbino: Il Mulino, 2003. 190 pp. index. bibl. [euro]15. ISBN: 88-15-09455-5. Despite the potentially wide diffusion made possible by Emilio...

Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Kate Lowe. Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 437 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0-521-62191-7. Early modern nuns...

La vita nei libri: edizioni illustrate a stampa del Quattro e Cinquecento dalla Fondazione Giorgio Cini.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Marino Zorzi, ed. La vita nei libri: edizioni illustrate a stampa del Quattro e Cinquecento dalla Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Venice: Edizioni della Laguna, 2003. 328 pp. illus. [euro]35. ISBN: 88-8345-123-6. Marino Zorzi, the...

Borgo San Sepolcro a Meta del Quattrocento: Istituzioni e Societa 1440-1460.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Gian Paolo G. Scharf. Borgo San Sepolcro a meta del Quattrocento: Istituzioni e societa 1440-1460. Biblioteca Storica Toscana, Serie I 43. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. iv + 348 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN:...

April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Lauro Martines. April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii + 302 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-19-515295-6. In this study, Lauro Martines offers a...

Soldati del papa: Politica militare e nobilta nello Stato della Chiesa (1560-1644).(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Giampiero Brunelli. Soldati del papa: Politica militare e nobilta nello Stato della Chiesa (1560-1644). Studi e ricerche 8. Rome: Carocci editore, 2003. xxvi + 294 pp. index. append. tbls. [euro]18.70. ISBN: 88-430-2632-1. Giampiero...

Il Monferrato gonzaghesco: Istituzioni ed elites di un micro-stato (1536-1708).(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Blythe Alice Raviola. Il Monferrato gonzaghesco: Istituzioni ed elites di un micro-stato (1536-1708). Fondazione Luigi Firpo: Centro di studi sul pensiero politico, Studi e testi 20. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. xviii + 484 pp. index....

Louis XII en Milanais: Guerre et politique, art et culture.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Philippe Contamine and Jean Guillaume, eds. Louis XII en Milanais: Guerre et politique, art et culture. Actes du XL[I.sup.e] colloque international d'etudes humanistes, 30 juin-3 juillet 1998. Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la...

Urbino: The Story of a Renaissance City.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... June Osborne and John Mortimer. Urbino: The Story of a Renaissance City. Photographs by Joe Cornish. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 208 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $50. ISBN: 0-226-63763-8. June...

Roman House--Renaissance Palaces: Inventing Antiquity in Fifteenth-Century Italy.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Georgia Clarke. Roman House--Renaissance Palaces: Inventing Antiquity in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Architecture in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxviii + 383 pp. + 9 color pls. index....

The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Luba Freedman. The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 301 pp. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-521-81576-2. This useful book examines the context in which...

Michelangelo and the Finger of God.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Paul Barolsky. Michelangelo and the Finger of God. Issues in the History of Art. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 2003. xviii + 84 pp. illus. bibl. $12. ISBN: 0-915977-49-4. Michelangelo scholarship remains a growth industry, yet...

The Art of Parmigianino.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... David G. Franklin and David Eskerdjian. The Art of Parmigianino. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. x + 290 pp. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-300-10357-3. Both Correggio and Parmigianino, were they not so hugely...

Benvenuto Cellini: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Margaret A. Gallucci. Benvenuto Cellini: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy. New York and Houndmills, England: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003. xvi + 214 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $59.95 (cl),...

Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto: Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Sara N. James. Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto: Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time. Histories of Vision. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xiv + 200 pp. + 8 color and 27 b/w pls....

Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Gauvin Alexander Bailey. Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xii + 406 pp. + 120 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-8020-3721-6. As the author...

Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... John Beldon Scott. Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxii + 443 pp. + 16 color pls. index. append. illus. tbls. map. chron. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-226-74316-0....

Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Court Ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Alice Jarrard. Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Court Ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 298 pp. + 8 color pls. index. append. illus. map. bibl....

Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Vincenzo Galilei. Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music. Trans. Claude V. Palisca. Music Theory Translation Series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. lxx + 384 pp. index. illus. tbls. $75. ISBN: 0-300-09045-5. We are...

Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Marco Bizzarini. Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation. Trans. James Chater. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xviii + 370 pp. + 9 b/w pls....

Monteverdi's Musical Theatre.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Tim Carter. Monteverdi's Musical Theatre. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. x + 326 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-300-09676-3. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), the first opera composer of genius,...

Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Wendy B. Heller. Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xx + 386 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-520-20933-8. Wendy...

Isabel La Catolica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... David A. Boruchoff, ed. Isabel La Catolica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays. The New Middle Ages. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003. xviii + 312 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. $45. ISBN:...

The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Jesus Escobar. The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of the Baroque Madrid. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxvi + 348 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. gloss. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-521-81507-X. The Plaza Mayor,...

Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528-1735.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Renato Barahona. Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528-1735. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xxii + 274 pp. index. append. map. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-8020-3694-5. In Sex Crimes,...

Feminizing the Enemy: Imperial Spain, Transvestite Drama, and the Crisis of Masculinity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Sidney Donnell. Feminizing the Enemy: Imperial Spain, Transvestite Drama, and the Crisis of Masculinity. Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press, 2003. 312 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-8387-5513-5. Sidney...

The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Rita Costa Gomes. The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxii + 490 pp. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $80. ISBN: 0-521-80011-0. This is a...

The Calabrian Charlatan, 1598-1603: Messianic Nationalism in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... H. Eric R. Olsen. The Calabrian Charlatan, 1598-1603: Messianic Nationalism in Early Modern Europe. Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003. x + 186 pp. index. illus....

Vincent de Paul: The Trailblazer.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Bernard Pujo. Vincent de Paul: The Trailblazer. Trans. Gertrud Graubart Champe. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xiv + 327 pp. + 8 b/w pls. index. append. illus. chron. $40. ISBN: 0-268-04361-2. The study of...

Reforming French Protestantism: The Development of Huguenot Ecclesiastical Institutions, 1557-1572.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Glenn S. Sunshine. Reforming French Protestantism: The Development of Huguenot Ecclesiastical Institutions, 1557-1572. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 66. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2003. xiv + 193 pp. index....

Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'Ancien Regime: Actes du Colloque de Poitiers (11-12 juin 1998).(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Nicole Pellegrin and Colette H. Winn, eds. Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'Ancien Regime: Actes du Colloque de Poitiers (11-12 juin 1998). Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance 32. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur,...

Argumentaires de l'une et l'autre espece de femme: Le statut de l'exemplum dans les discours litteraires sur la femme (1500-1550).(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Marie-Claude Malenfant. Argumentaires de l'une et l'autre espece de femme: Le statut de l'exemplum dans les discours litteraires sur la femme (1500-1550). Les collections de la Republique des Lettres: Etudes. Saint-Nicolas, Quebec: Les...

Le poete architecte en France: Constructions d'un imaginaire monarchique.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Cynthia Skenazi. Le poete architecte en France: Constructions d'un imaginaire monarchique. Etudes et Essais sur la Renaissance 48. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 344 pp. index. bibl. [euro]55. ISBN: 2-7453-0984-6. The paragone...

Jean Bouchet: Traverseur des voies perilleuses (1476-1557).(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Jennifer Joan Britnell and Nathalie Dauvois, eds. Jean Bouchet: Traverseur des voies perilleuses (1476-1557). Actes du colloque de Poitiers (30-31 aout 2001). Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance europeenne 34. Paris:...

Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisivete in the French Renaissance.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Virginia Krause. Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisivete in the French Renaissance Newark and London: University of Delaware Press/AUP, 2003. 230 pp. index. bibl. $48.50. ISBN: 0-87413-835-3. The University of Delaware Press is out to...

Sensual Philosophy: Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne's Politics of the Self.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Alan Levine. Sensual Philosophy: Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne's Politics of the Self. Applications of Political Theory. Lanham and Boulder: Lexington Books, 2001. xii + 336 pp. index. bibl. $26.95. ISBN: 0-7391-0247-8. This...

Le Visage changeant de Montaignel/The Changing Face of Montaigne.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Keith Cameron and Laura L. Willett, eds. Le Visage changeant de Montaigne/The Changing Face of Montaigne. Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance 39. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 393 pp. index. illus. chron....

La lettre familiere au XVIe siecle: Rhetorique humaniste de l'epistolaire.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Luc Vaillancourt. La lettre familiere au XVIe siecle: Rhetorique humaniste de l'epistolaire. Etudes et essais sur la Renaissance 42. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 459 pp. index. bibl. [euro]76. ISBN: 2-7453-0801-7. After...

OEuvres polemiques redigees sous le regne de Louis XII.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Pierre Gringore. OEuvres polemiques redigees sous le regne de Louis XII. Ed. Cynthia J. Brown. Textes litteraires francais 556. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2003. 376 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. [euro]52. ISBN: 2-600-00836-5. A...

Les Facetieuses Journees.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Gabriel Chappuys. Les Facetieuses Journees. Ed. Michel Bideaux. Textes de la Renaissance 77. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 896 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. [euro]129. ISBN: 2-7453-0895-5. How long we have waited for this...

L'honnete fille ou dans le premier livre il est traite de l'esprit des filles.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Francois de Grenaille. L'honnete fille ou dans le premier livre il est traite de l'esprit des filles. Ed. Alain Vizier. Textes de la Renaissance 64. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 542 pp. index. append. tbls. gloss. bibl....

Le Gentilhomme.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Nicolas Pasquier. Le Gentilhomme. Ed. Denise Carabin. Textes de la Renaissance 70. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 383 pp. index. tbls. gloss. bibl. [euro]58. ISBN: 2-7453-0862-9. Denise Carabin has given us a splendid and much...

Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Christopher Braider. Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures 275. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 387 pp. index....

Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Alison Adams. Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 378. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2003. x + 324 pp. index. append. illus. 90 CHF. ISBN: 2-600-00874-8. ...

Emblematics in Hungary: A Study of the History of Symbolic Representation in Renaissance and Baroque Literature.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Eva Knapp and Gabor Tuskes. Emblematics in Hungary: A Study of the History of Symbolic Representation in Renaissance and Baroque Literature. Ed. Nigel Griffin. Trans. Andras Torok and Zsuzsa Boronkay. Fruhe Neuzeit 86. Tubingen: Max...

Mundus Emblematicus: Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Karl A. E. Enenkel and Arnoud S. Q. Visser, eds. Mundus Emblematicus: Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books. Imago Figurata 4. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2003. x + 384 pp. append. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]75. ISBN: 2-503-51202-X. This...

Le Livre au XVIe siecle: Elements de bibliographie materielle et d'histoire.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Francois Roudaut. Le Livre au XVIe siecle: Elements de bibliographie materielle et d'histoire. Etudes et Essais sur la Renaissance 47. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 206 pp. index. illus. bibl. [euro]29. ISBN: 2-7453-0902-1. ...

Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order 1450-1830.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... David McKitterick. Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order 1450-1830. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 311 pp. index. illus. $60. ISBN: 0-521-82690-X. This book is an attractively presented, expanded...

The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Joseph A. Dane. The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2003. viii + 242 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60....

The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds. The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xiv + 277 pp. index. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-271-02310-4. What defines a...

Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation and Reform.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest, eds. Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation and Reform. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 115. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xvi + 309 pp. index. append....

Diane et Acteon: Eclats et reflets d'un mythe a la Renaissance et a l'age baroque.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Helene Casanova-Robin. Diane et Acteon: Eclats et reflets d'un mythe a la Renaissance et a l'age baroque. Etudes et essais sur la Renaissance 46. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2003. 494 pp. index. illus. bibl. [euro]82. ISBN:...

Gotter im Exil: Fruhneuzeitliches Dichtungsverstandnis im Spannungsfeld christlicher Apologetik und philologischer Kritik (ca. 1590-1736).(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Ralph Hafner. Gotter im Exil: Fruhneuzeitliches Dichtungsverstandnis im Spannungsfeld christlicher Apologetik und philologischer Kritik (ca. 1590-1736). Fruhe Neuzeit 80. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, GmbH, 2003. xxxii + 716 pp. index....

Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Yasmin Annabel Haskell. Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 354 pp. index. append. illus....

Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Margaret W. Ferguson Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 506 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65 (cl), $25 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-24311-7...

Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Margaret Mikesell and Adele Seeff, eds. Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies. Cranbury, NJ and London: University of Delaware Press/AUP, 2003. 400 pp. index. append. illus. bibl....

Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Nancy Caciola. Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xviii + 327 pp. index. illus. $42.50. ISBN:...

Baroques.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Giovanni Careri. Baroques. Photographs by Ferrante Ferranti. Trans. Alexandra Bonfante-Warren. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 248 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-691-11690-3. This joint effort by...

Large Bronzes in the Renaissance.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Peta Motture, ed. Large Bronzes in the Renaissance. Studies in the History of Art 64. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers 41. New Haven and London: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003. 352 pp. index....

Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Jeroen Duindam. Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780. New Studies in European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 349 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $80....

Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Jonathan Hart. Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003. xiv + 192 pp. index. $59.95. ISBN: 1-4039-6188-3. Hart...

The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Ralph Bauer. The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv + 295 pp. index. illus....

Mapping the City: The Language and Culture of Cartography in the Renaissance.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Naomi J. Miller. Mapping the City: The Language and Culture of Cartography in the Renaissance. London and New York: Continuum, 2003. xviii + 270 pp. + 32 color pls. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $150. ISBN: 0-8264-5636-7. ...

Les grandeurs de la Terre: Aspects du savoir geographique a la Renaissance.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Jean-Marc Besse. Les grandeurs de la Terre: Aspects du savoir geographique a la Renaissance. Collection Societes, espaces, temps. Lyon: ENS editions, 2003. 424 pp. + 60 pls. [euro]35. ISBN: 2-84788-030-5. Jean-Marc Besse's book...

Opuscoli astrologici: Come evitare il fato astrale, Apologetico, Disputa sulle Bolle.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Tommaso Campanella. Opuscoli astrologici: Come evitare il fato astrale, Apologetico, Disputa sulle Bolle. Ed. Germana Ernst. Bur Classici. Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2003. 278 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]10....

Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Jean Dietz Moss and William A. Wallace. Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. ix + 438 pp. index. bibl. $69.95. ISBN: 0-8132-1331-2. Jean Dietz Moss, master of...

Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Thomas M. Lennon, ed. Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 116. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xii + 240 pp. index. bibl. $99. ISBN: 90-04-13299-6. This...

Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), lecteur et editeur des textes anciens: Actes du Colloque International tenu a Strasbourg et a Selestat du 13 au 15 novembre 1998.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... James Hirstein ed. Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), lecteur et editeur des textes anciens: Actes du Colloque International tenu a Strasbourg et a Selestat du 13 au 15 novembre 1998. Studia Humanitatis Rhenana 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers,...