The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism.

Introducing The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge: U.P., 1996; pp. xviii + 326. 35 [pounds sterling]; pb. 12.95 [pounds sterling]), Jill Kraye explains that the collection of fourteen original essays it contains is aimed at a readership of students or non-specialists in need of a guide to the multi-faceted world of Renaissance humanism. Scholars called upon to provide such an introduction to their specialisms are no doubt aware of the privilege, as well as the responsibility, of their role. Students who consult this addition to the prestigious series of Cambridge Companions to Literature should be no less conscious of the privilege of being instructed by …