Renaissance Quarterly articles from June 2001

Renaissance Quarterly archives from June 2001

Death and the Cardinal: The Two Bodies of Guillaume d'Estouteville [*]
June 22, 2001... This article examines the circumstances of the death of Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville (d. 1483) and his plans for burial in his Roman church of Sant'Agostino and in the Cathedral of Rouen of which he was archbishop. I argue that the cardinal...

Elections of Abbesses and Notions of Identity in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy, with Special Reference to Venice [*]
June 22, 2001... Ceremonies of election to abbess were occasions of great display. Election to this highest of offices was the defining moment of a successful nun's life, and thereafter self-identity became crucial. This article examines an anatomy of an...

Nuns and Their Art: The Case of San Zaccaria in Renaissance Venice [*]
June 22, 2001... This article discusses the ways in which fifteenth-century nuns financed, shaped, and used works of art and architecture at the Benedictine convent of San Zaccaria in Venice. Evidence from chronicles, account books, liturgical manuscripts,...

Assumed Simplicity and the Critique of Nobility: Or, How Castiglione Read Cicero
June 22, 2001... In book 1 of Castiglinoe's Il libro del cortegiano Lodovico da Canossa's sprezzatura -- embodied in his pretended inability to teach us how to be perfect courtiers -- is usually seen as consonant with the treatise's aristocratic bias, especially...

Ariosto and the "Fier Pastor": Form and History in Orlando Furioso
June 22, 2001... This essay explores the formal means (a variant of the medieval romance technique of entrelacement) by which Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso represents and comments on contemporary events, particularly the threats posed by French and Spanish...

Tasso's Enchantress, Tasso's Captive Woman [*]
June 22, 2001... This essay offers two discoveries concerning Tasso's poetics. First, it identifies in the Discourses or the Heroic Poem a critique of allegory on both aesthetic and moral grounds, one that explains Jerusalem Delivered's abandonment of the...

English Accounts of Captivity in North Africa and the Middle East: 1577-1625
June 22, 2001... Between 1577 and 1625, ten Englishmen wrote or dictated accounts about their captivity among the Muslims. After examining similar accounts of captivity by continental writers, Fernand Braudel argued that European governments encouraged the...

Painting and Sculpture for the Tuscan Household.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Crisrelle L. Baskins. Cassone Painting Humanism, and Gender in Early Mod ern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 264 pp. $80. ISBN: 0-521-58393-4. C. Jean Campbell. The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of...

Agostino Paravicini-Baglioni, The Pope's Body & Katherine Ludwig Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Agostino Paravicini-Baglioni, The Pope's Body Trans. David S. Peterson. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Xxii + 16 pls. + 396 pp. $28. ISBN: 0-226-03437-2. Katherine Ludwig Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen:...

Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434 Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 308 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 0-521-66337-7. Mountaineers are free! Or at least free from...

Le insidie Dell'allegoria: Ermolao Barbaro il Vecchio e la lezione degli antichi.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Maria Esposito Frank, Le insidie Dell'allegoria: Ermolao Barbaro il Vecchio e la lezione degli antichi (Memorie della Classe di Scienze Morali, Lettere ed Arti, 88.) Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1999. viii + 133...

The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Mary Bergstein, The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 130 b/w figs. + 230 pp. $90. ISBN: 0-691-00982-1. Nanni di Banco (b. ca. 1374, d. 1421) was one of the great artists of the early...

Giojelli e gioiellieri milanesi, storia, arte, moda (1450-1630) e Glossario e documenti per la giotelleria milanese (1459-1631).(Review)
June 22, 2001... Paola Venturelli, Giojelli e gioiellieri milanesi, storia, arte, moda (1450-1630) Cinisello Balsamo (Milan): Silvana Editoriale, 1996. 168 pls. + 222 pp. IL 100,000. ISBN: 88-366-0509-5. Paola Venturelli, Glossario e documenti per la...

My Laocoon: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Richard Brilliant, My Laocoon: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000. 162 pp. inc. 27 b/w illus. $45. ISBN: 0-520-21682-2. At the moment of its excavation in a Roman...

Renaissance Florence, The Art of the 1470s.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright, Renaissance Florence, The Art of the 1470s London and New Haven: Yale University Press for National Gallery Publications, 1999. 352 pp. incl. 50 b/w + 230 color illus.. $50. ISBN: 0-300-08171-5. ...

Durer to Veronese. Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, D. Gordon, and Nicholas Penny, Durer to Veronese. Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. 408 pp. incl. 100 b/w + 300 color illus. $65. ISBN:...

Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and Enterprise.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Ethan Matt Kavaler, Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and Enterprise Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 139 pls. + 403 pp. $80. ISBN: 0-521-62267-0. This important, richly documented book consists of nine case...

"Bauernfubrer" Michael Gaismair e l'utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare & Valentin Weigel (1533-1588). German Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist, and Advocate of Tolerance.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Aldo Stella, II "Bauernfubrer" Michael Gaismair e l'utopia di un repubblicanesimo popolare (Annali dell'istituto storico italo-germanico in Trenro, Monografie 33.) Bologna: II Mulino, 1999. 340pp. IL 44,000. ISBN: 88-15-07191-1. ...

Preaching Wisdom to the Wise. Three Treatises.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Roberto de Nobili, Preaching Wisdom to the Wise. Three Treatises Trans. and intro. Anand Amaladass and Francis X. Clooney. St. Louis: The Institute for Jesuit Sources, 2000. xxi + 345pp. $29.95. ISBN: 1-880810-37-9. Trans. and intro....

Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Wes Williams, Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: The Undiscovered Country Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1998. x + 326 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-19-815940-4. This book sets out to be nothing less than a...

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice London and New York: Routledge, 2000. ix + 277 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 0-415-14434-5. Merry Wiesner-Hanks's most recent...

Tempi e spazi di vita femminile tra medioevo ed eta moderna.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Silvana Seidel Menchi, Anne Jacobson Schutte, and Thomas Kuehn, eds., Tempi e spazi di vita femminile tra medioevo ed eta moderna Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino, 1999. 577 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-15-07234-9. In the introduction to...

Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Peter G. Platt, ed., Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999. 341pp. $49.50. ISBN: 0-87413-678-4. We think of the early-modern period as an age, indeed, the age of discovery. But...

The Tessera of Antilia. Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Donald R. Dickson. The Tessera of Antilia. Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century Brill: Leiden and Boston, 1998. x + 293 pp. n.p. ISBN: 90-04-11032-1. As the seventeenth century sank deeper into...

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers, eds., with the assistance of Roger Ariew and Alan Gabbey, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvii + 1616 pp. [pound]105.00 / $185.00....

Collected Works.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Elizabeth I, Collected Works Eds. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. xxiv + 446pp. incl. 18 illus. $40. ISBN: 0-226-50464-6. By choosing to present...

The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Mary Hill Cole, The Portable Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony Ed. Arthur F. Kinney (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture.) Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. x + 277 pp. n.p. ISBN: 1-55849-214-3. ...

Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World & "The New Poet": Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints & Spenser and Biblical Poetics.(Review)
June 22, 2001... David Read, Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 164 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 0-8143-2872-5. Richard Danson Brown, "The New Poet": Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints...

Shakespeare and Domestic Loss: Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Heather Dubrow, Shakespeare and Domestic Loss: Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 32.) Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 242 pp....

Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue & Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Eileen Allman, Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1999. 2l2 pp. $36.50. ISBN: 0-87413-698-9. Philippa Berry, Shakespeare's Feminine...

Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet and Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Susanne Woods, Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv + 198 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 0-19-512484-7. Jocelyn Catty, Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech ...

Heart-work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic and Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Cristina Malcolmson, Heart-work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii + 298 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-8047-2988-3. R. V. Young, Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in...

Age of Iron: English Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Gale H. Carrithers, Jr., and James D. Hardy, Jr., Age of Iron: English Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xviii + 314 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-8071-2246-7. Age of Iron takes a...

The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Thomas N. Corns, ed., The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xvi + 316 pp. incl. 38 illus. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-59047-7. This collection of essays is an ambitious and successful attempt...

England in Conflict, 1603-1 660. Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Derek Hirst, England in Conflict, 1 603-1 660. Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. vii + 359 pp. $80. ISBN: 0-340-74144-9. Derek Hirst's revision of his 1986 work, Authority and Conflict...

Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print 1645-1661 and The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Laura Lunger Knoppers, Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print 1645-1661 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 249 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-66261-3. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds., The English...