Renaissance Quarterly Books Received April–June 2011

EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting: A New Translation and Critical Edition. Ed. Rocco Sinisgalli. Trans. Rocco Sinisgalli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi + 214 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 978–1–107–00062–9. Bale, John. John Bale’s Catalogue of Tudor Authors: An Annotated Translation of Records from the Scriptorum illustrium maioris brytanniae … Catalogus (1557–1559). Trans. J. Christopher Warner. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. xl + 428 pp. index. append. $84. ISBN: 978–0–86698–423–2. Bernini, Domenico. The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini: A Translation and Critical Edition, with Introduction and Commentary. Ed. and trans. Franco Mormando. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xvi + 482 pp. index. append. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–271–03748–6. Boccaccio, Giovanni. Genealogy of the Pagan Gods: Volume 1, Books 1–5. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 46. Ed. and trans. Jon Solomon. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. xxxvii + 888 pp. index. illus. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–05710–4. Burnett, Amy N., ed. and trans. The Eucharistic Pamphlets of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt. Early Modern Studies 6. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2011. xii + 300 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–935503–16–3. Campanella, Tommaso. Selected Philosophical Poems. Bruniana and Campanelliana: Ricerche filosofiche e materiali storico-testuali 29:8. Ed. and trans. Sherry L. Roush. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2011. 166 pp. illus. €54. ISBN: 978–88–6227–388–6. Dati, Agostino. Plumbinensis Historia. Il Ritorno dei Classici nell’Umanesimo 4. Edizione Nazionale dei Testi della Storiografia Umanistica 6. Ed. Marina Riccucci. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010. xxi + 182 pp. + 5 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. €46. ISBN: 978–88– 8450–407–4. de Aguilar y Córdoba, Diego. El Marañón. Biblioteca Indiana 28. Ed. Julián Díez Torres. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2010. 422 pp. illus. bibl. $44. ISBN: 978–84–8489–568–8. Fonzio, Bartolomeo. Letters to Friends. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 47. Ed. Alessandro Daneloni. Trans. Martin C. Davies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. xviii + 234 pp. index. illus. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–05836–1. Garcés, María Antonia, ed., and Diana de Armas Wilson, trans. An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa’s Topography of Algiers (1612). History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portugese Worlds. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. xxiii + 400 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. gloss. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–268–02978–4. Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio. Modern Poets. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 48. Ed. and trans. John N. Grant. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. xxxv + 364 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–05575–9. Jansohn, Christa, ed. Eta Harich-Schneider: Die Sonette William Shakespeares und die Lyrik der “Rekusanten”: Erlebnisse und Übersetzungen einer reisenden Musikerin: 1941–1982. Studien zur englischen Literatur Bd. 25. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011. 490 pp. + 2 color and 30 b/w pls. illus. bibl. €39.90. ISBN: 978–3–643–10936–1. Jonson, Ben. La congiura di Catilina: Testo inglese a fronte. Lagado opere 6. Ed. and trans. Domenico Lovascio. Genova: ECIG –– Edizioni Culturali Internazionali Genova, 2011. lxxxiv + 334 pp. illus. bibl. €26. ISBN: 978–88–7544–219–4. Lohr, Charles H., ed. Latin Aristotle Commentaries: I.2: Medieval Authors M–Z. Unione Accademica Nazionale: Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi Subsidia XVIII. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010. xiii + 208 pp. €95. ISBN: 978–88–8450–367–1. Mandeville, John. The Book of John Mandeville with Related Texts. Ed. Iain Macleod Higgins. Trans. Iain Macleod Higgins. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2011. xxvi + 292 pp. index. append. bibl. $39.95 (cl), $12.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–87220–936–7 (cl), 978–0– 87220–935–0 (pbk). Mantovano, Battista Spagnoli. Adolescentia. Ed. and trans. Andrea Severi. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2010. 529 pp. €60. ISBN: 978–88–7395–5283. Nassiet, Michel, ed. Les lettres de pardon du voyage de Charles IX (1565–1566). Paris: Société de l’Histoire de France, 2010. xlvii + 714 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. €80. ISBN: 978–2– 3540–7132–5. Panofsky, Erwin. Erwin Panofsky Korrespondenz. Band V 1962–1968. Ed. Dieter Wuttke. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011. xliii + 1466 pp. + 1 b/w pl. index. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. €180. ISBN: 978–3–447–06277–0. Pinvidic, Marie-Jane, ed. La Fleur des batailles Doolin de Maience: Publiée par Antoine Vérard (1501). Textes Littéraires de la Renaissance. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2011. 536 pp. illus. gloss. bibl. €105. ISBN: 978–2–7453–2156–5. Scheurer, Rémy, Loris Petris, and David Amherdt, eds. Correspondance du Cardinal Jean du Bellay. Vol. 4: 1547–1548. Paris: Société de l’Histoire de France, 2011. xiii + 444 pp. illus. tbls. €159.90. ISBN: 9782354071356. Schrenck, Gilbert, and Xavier Le Person, eds. Journal du règne de Henri IV: Tome I: 1589– 1591. Textes Littéraires Français. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2011. 348 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $72.47. ISBN: 978–2–600–01481–6. Stanglin, Keith D., ed. The Missing Public Disputations of Jacobus Arminius: Introduction, Text, and Notes. Brill’s Series in Church History 47. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xvi + 630 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €149. ISBN: 978–90–04–18867–9. Strickland, Lloyd, ed. and trans. Leibniz and the Two Sophies: The Philosophical Correspondence. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 10. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011. xvi + 468 pp. index. append. bibl. $37. ISBN: 978–99935–7–997–7.

ANTHOLOGIES: Bevington, David, ed. George Peele. The University Wits. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xxix + 468 pp. index. illus. $275. ISBN: 978–0–7546–2856–9. Brown, Georgia E., ed. Thomas Nashe. The University Wits. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xxxiii + 596 pp. index. illus. $275. ISBN: 978–0–7546–2853–8. Lunney, Ruth Ann, ed. John Lyly. The University Wits. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xxxix + 502 pp. index. $275. ISBN: 978–0–7546–2854–5. Melnikoff, Kirk, ed. Robert Greene. The University Wits. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xxxvii + 570 pp. index. append. illus. $275. ISBN: 978–0–7546–2858–3. Whitney, Charles C., ed. Thomas Lodge. The University Wits. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xli + 530 pp. index. illus. bibl. $275. ISBN: 978–0–7546–2875–0.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE: Bober, Phyllis Pray, and Ruth Rubinstein. Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture: A Handbook of Sources. Second Edition. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2010. 582 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €100. ISBN: 978–1–905375–60–8. Cousins, A. D., and Peter Howarth, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. x + 284 pp. index. bibl. $80 (cl), $29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0– 521–51467–5 (cl), 978–0–521–73553–7 (pbk). Fitzpatrick, Joan. Shakespeare and the Language of Food: A Dictionary. Continuum Shakespeare Dictionary Series. London: Continuum, 2011. xvii + 462 pp. index. bibl. $275. ISBN: 978–1–4411–7998–2. Giddens, Eugene. How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ix + 188 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $27.99. ISBN: 978–0–521–71397–9. Hammond, Susan Lewis. The Madrigal: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York: Routledge, 2011. xviii + 356 pp. index. $150. ISBN: 978–0–415– 80102–7. Hampton-Reeves, Stuart. Othello: A Guide to the Text and the Play in Performance. The Shakespeare Handbooks. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. vi + 162 pp. index. $17. ISBN: 978–0–230–53567–1. Iyengar, Sujata. Shakespeare’s Medical Language: A Dictionary. Continuum Shakespeare Dictionary Series. London: Continuum, 2011. xvi + 416 pp. index. bibl. $120. ISBN: 978–0– 8264–9133–6. King, Pamela. Medieval Literature 1300–1500. Edinburgh Critical Guides. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. xiv + 242 pp. index. gloss. chron. $30. ISBN: 978–0–7486– 3460–6. Scrase, David. Italian Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 864 pp. index. illus. bibl. $285. ISBN: 978–0–521–44379–1. Tyler, James. A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar. Publications of the Early Modern Music Institute. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. x + 160 pp. index. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–253–22289–3.

COLLECTIONS AND STUDIES: Adams, Robyn, and Rosanna Cox, eds. Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture. Early Modern Literature in History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xii + 200 pp. index. $80. ISBN: 978–0–230–23976–0. Includes: Robyn Adams and Rosanna Cox, “Introduction”; Peter Barber, “‘Procure as many as you can and send them over’: Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations, 1460–1760”; Jason Powell, “Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad”; Stephen Alford, “Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham”; Robyn Adams, “A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence”; Joanna Craigwood, “Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy”; James Daybell, “Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England”; Alan Stewart, “Francis Bacon’s Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing”; Hannah J. Crawforth, “Court Hieroglyphics: The Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson’s Masques”; Mark Netzloff, “The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing”; and Nadine Akkerman, “The Postmistress, the Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control.”

Andretta, Stefano, Stéphane Péquignot, Marie-Karine Schaub, and Jean-Claude Waquet, eds. Paroles de négociateurs: L’entretien dans la pratique diplomatique de la fin du Moyen âge à la fin du XIXe siècle. Collection de l’École française de Rome 433. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010. 446 pp. index. €42. ISBN: 978–2–7283–0879–8. Includes: Jean-Claude Waquet, “Introduction”; Stéphane Péquignot, “‘De bonnes et très gracieuses paroles’: les entretiens d’Antoni Vinyes, syndic de Barcelone, avec le roi d’Aragon Alphonse le Magnanime (Naples, 1451–1452)”; Isabella Lazzarini, “La nomination d’un cardinal de famille entre l’Empire et la papauté: les pratiques de négociation de Bartolomeo Bonatti, orateur de Ludovico Gonzaga (Rome, 1461)”; Christian Windler, “Les pratiques de l’entretien à l’épreuve des différences de culture politique et confessionnelle: une mission milanaise auprès des cantons suisses en 1565”; Manfredi Merluzzi, “Negoziare nel Nuovo Mondo: la missione di Diego Rodríguez de Figueroa presso l’Inca Tito Cusi Yupanqui nel maggio del 1565”; Dejanirah Couto, “Les missions diplomatiques portugaises en Perse dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle: les audiences de Miguel Ferreira (1514) et de Fernão Gomes de Lemos (1515) à la cour de Châh Esma’îl safavide”; Carmen Menchini, “La prospettiva italiana sulla crisi successoria portoghese attraverso gli Entretiens di complimento alla corte di Lisbona”; Hillard von Thiessen, “Switching Roles in Negotiation: Levels of Diplomatic Communication between Pope Paul V Borghese (1605–1621) and the Ambassadors of Philip III”; Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, “La difficile négociation de la neutralité: les entretiens d’Henri IV avec Piero Priuli, ambassadeur de Venise, et Maffeo Barberini, nonce en France, au début de l’Interdit vénitien (1606)”; Stefano Andretta, “Forme della communicazione diplomatica in un contesto di crisi: gli ambasciatori veneziani durante la Fronda parlamentare a Parigi (1648–49)”; Marie-Karine Schaub, “Avoir l’oreille du roi: l’ambassade de Pierre Potemkin et Simeon Roumiantsev en France en 1668”; Sven Externbrink, “Négociation et conversation: les entretiens d’Ézéchiel Spanheim, envoyé extraordinaire de Brandebourg à la cour de Louis XIV (1680–1689)”; Jean-Claude Waquet, “Le juge face au soldat? Conflit, communication et marchandage dans les entretiens entre l’auditeur Angeli et le maréchal Carafa (Milan, 1691–1692)”; Albane Pialoux, “Le cardinal de Polignac face à Benoît XIII: négocier l’accommodement du cardinal de Noailles”; Eva Kathrin Dade, “Une diplomatie féminine: les entretiens des négociateurs étrangers avec madame de Pompadour”; Philipp Rößler, “Négocier le privilège dans le commerce interculturel: la Compagnie royale d’Afrique et les concessions d’Afrique”; Marc Belissa, “L’entretien impossible? Ministres monarchistes et envoyés républicains 1795–1799”; Francesca Cantù, “‘Parlare fra i denti’: gli entretiens diplomatiques del cardinale Consalvi al Congresso di Vienna (1814–1815)”; Gilles Ferragu, “Les causeries des sœurs latines”; and Stefano Andretta, Stéphane Péquignot, Marie-Karine Schaub, Jean-Claude Waquet, and Christian Windler, “Conclusion.”

Archer, Jayne E., Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, eds. The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. xvii + 334 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 978–0–7190–8236–8. Includes: Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, “Preface”; J. H. Baker, “The Third University 1450–1550: Law School or Finishing School?”; Jayne Elisabeth Archer, “Introduction: Education, Religion, Politics, and the Law at the Early Modern Inns of Court”; Paul Raffield, “The Inner Temple Revels (1561–62) and the Elizabethan Rhetoric of Signs: Legal Iconography at the Early Modern Inns of Court”; Hugh Adlington, “Gospel, Law, and ars praedicandi at the Inns of Court, c. 1570–c. 1640”; Damian X. Powell, “The Inns of Court and the Common Law Mind: The Case of James Whitelocke”; Emma Rhatigan, “‘The sinful history of mine own youth’: John Donne Preaches at Lincoln’s Inn”; Wilfrid R. Prest, “Readers’ Dinners and the Culture of the Early Modern Inns of Court”; Elizabeth Goldring, “Introduction: The Art, Architecture, and Gardens of the Early Modern Inns of Court”; Mark Girouard, “The Halls of the Elizabethan and Early Stuart Inns of Court”; Tarnya Cooper, “Professional Pride and Personal Agendas: Portraits of Judges, Lawyers, and Members of the Inns of Court, 1560–1630”; Paula Henderson, “The Evolution of the Early Gardens of the Inns of Court”; Geoffrey Tyack, “The Rebuilding of the Inns of Court, 1660–1700”; Sarah Knight, “Introduction: Literature and Drama at the Early Modern Inns of Court”; Jessica Winston, “Lyric Poetry at the Early Elizabethan Inns of Court: Forming a Professional Community”; Lorna Hutson, “The Evidential Plot: Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray’s Inn”; Bradin Cormack, “Locating The Comedy of Errors: Revels Jurisdiction at the Inns of Court”; Richard C. McCoy, “Law Sports and the Night of Errors: Shakespeare at the Inns of Court”; and Alan H. Nelson, “New Light on Drama, Music, and Dancing at the Inns of Court to 1642.”

Armstrong, Lawrin, and Julius Kirshner, eds. The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honor of Lauro Martines. Toronto Studies in Medieval Law. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. x + 230 pp. index. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978–1–4426– 4075–7 (cl). Includes: Lauro Martines, “The Composition of Lawyers and Statecraft”; Julius Kirshner, “A Critical Appreciation of Lauro Martines’s Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence”; Sara Menzinger, “Consilium sapientum: Lawmen and the Italian Popular Communes”; Moritz Isenmann, “From Rule of Law to Emergency Rule in Renaissance Florence”; Susanne Lepsius, “Paolo di Castro as Consultant: Applying and Interpreting Florence’s Statutes”; Lorenzo Tanzini, “An ‘Oracle of the Law’: Tommaso Salvetti and His Adnotationes ad statuta florentina”; Thomas Kuehn, “Lawyers and Housecraft in Renaissance Florence: The Politics of Private Consilia”; Robert Fredona, “Baldus de Ubaldis on Conspiracy and Laesa Maiestas in Late Trecento Florence”; Osvaldo Cavallar, “Laesa Maiestas in Renaissance Lucca”; and Lawrin Armstrong, “Afterword.”

Bailey, Amanda, and Roze Hentschell, eds. Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550–1650. Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500–1700 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 230 pp. index. illus. $80. ISBN: 978–0–230–62366–8. Includes: Amanda Bailey and Roze Hentschell, “Introduction: Gendered Geographies of Vice”; Gina Bloom, “Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play”; Laurie Ellinghausen, “University of Vice: Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London”; Adam Zucker, “The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London”; Mary Bly, “Carnal Geographies: Mocking and Mapping the Religious Body”; Mark Albert Johnston, “‘To what bawdy house doth your Maister belong?’: Barbers, Bawds, and Vice in the Early Modern London Barbershop”; Holly Dugan, “Coriolanus and the ‘rank-scented meinie’: Smelling Rank in Early Modern London”; Natasha Korda, “Vicious Objects: Staging False Wares”; Ian Munro, “City of Angels: Theatrical Vice and The Devil is an Ass”; and Lawrence Manley, “Afterword: A Question of Morality.”

Beneš, Mirka M., and Michael G. Lee, eds. Clio in the Italian Garden: Twenty-First-Century Studies in Historical Methods and Theoretical Perspectives. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011. viii + 278 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0– 88402–367–8. Includes: Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee, “Introduction: The Study of Italian Gardens: A Newly Expanding Field”; Mirka Beneš, “Methodological Changes in the Study of Italian Gardens from the 1970s to the 1990s: A Personal Itinerary”; Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, “‘Grafting the Edelweiss on Cactus Plants’: The 1931 Italian Garden Exhibition and Its Legacy”; Marcello Fagiolo, “Systems of Gardens in Italy: Princely Residences and Villas in Rome and Latium, Savoy Piedmont, Royal Bourbon Naples, and Bagheria, Sicily”; Vincenzo Cazzato, “Residences of the Emergent Classes in Two Areas of Southern Italy”; Mauro Ambrosoli, “From the Italian Countryside to the Italianate Landscape: Peasants as Gardeners and Foreign Observers in Italy, 1500–1850”; Lionella Scazzosi, “Gardens and Landscapes as ‘Open-Ended Works’ between Continuity and Transformation: Notes on the Role of Historical Studies”; Antonella Pietrogrande, “The Imaginary of Generative Nature in Italian Mannerist Gardens”; and Denis Ribouillault, “Toward an Archaeology of the Gaze: The Perception and Function of Garden Views in Italian Renaissance Villas.”

Bicks, Caroline, and Jennifer Summit, eds. The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500–1610. The History of British Women’s Writing 2. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xxx + 346 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $85. ISBN: 978–0–230–21834–5. Includes: Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit, “Introduction”; Heidi Brayman Hackel, “Reading Women”; Julie Crawford, “Literary Circles and Communities”; A. E. B. Coldiron, “Women in Early English Print Culture”; Catherine Richardson, “Household Writing”; Edith Snook, “Maternal Advice”; Lynne Magnusson, “Letters”; Pamela Allen Brown, “The Street”; Marion Wynne-Davies, “The Theater”; Carolyn Sale, “The Courts”; Christine Coch, “Elizabeth I”; Nancy Bradley Warren, “Religious Writing and Reformation”; Sujata Iyengar, “Race and Skin Color in Early Modern Women’s Writing”; and Chris Laoutaris, “Translation/Historical Writing.”

Bruckner, Lynne, and Daniel G. Brayton, eds. Ecocritical Shakespeare. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xxiv + 280 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6919–7. Includes: Dan Brayton and Lynne Bruckner, “Introduction: Warbling Invaders”; Karen Raber, “Vermin and Parasites: Shakespeare’s Animal Architectures”; Robert N. Watson, “The Ecology of Self in Midsummer Night’s Dream”; Gabriel Egan, “Gaia and the Great Chain of Being”; Sharon O’Dair, “Is it Shakespearean Ecocriticism if it isn’t Presentist?”; Edward J. Geisweidt, “‘The Nobleness of Life’: Spontaneous Generation and Excremental Life in Antony and Cleopatra”; J. A. Shea and Paul Yachnin, “The Well-Hung Shrew”; Vin Nardizzi, “Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park”; Jennifer Munroe, “It’s all about the gillyvors: Engendering Art and Nature in The Winter’s Tale”; Steve Mentz, “Tongues in the Storm: Shakespeare, Ecological Crisis, and the Resources of Genre”; Dan Brayton, “Shakespeare and the Global Ocean”; Richard Kerridge, “An Ecocritic’s Macbeth”; Rebecca Laroche, “Ophelia’s Plants and the Death of Violets”; Lynne Bruckner, “Teaching Shakespeare in the Ecotone”; and Simon C. Estok, “Afterword: Ecocriticism on the Lip of a Lion.”

Cazes, Hélène, ed. Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 – Leiden 1614. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xiii + 490 pp. index. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. $183. ISBN: 978–90–04–19209– 6. Includes: Hélène Cazes, “Looking for Vulcanius: Plethora and Lacunae”; “The Many Lives of Bonaventura Vulcanius 1614–2010 (Exploring Biographies and Introducing this Collection of Papers)”; Harm-Jan van Dam, “‘The Honour of Letters’: Bonaventura Vulcanius, Scholar and Poet”; Chris L. Heesakkers and Wilhelmina G. Heesakkers-Kamerbeek, “Petrus Cunaeus, Oratio in obitum B. Vulcanii habita Lugd. Batav. In acad. MDCXIV. Introduction, Edition and Translation”; Kasper van Ommen, “The Portraits of Bonaventura Vulcanius”; Paul J. Smith, “Remarques sur les catalogues de vente aux enchères de la bibliothèque de Vulcanius”; Elly Ledegang-Keegstra, “Vulcanius et le réformateur Théodore de Bèze”; Hugues Daussy, “L’insertion de Bonaventure Vulcanius dans le réseau international protestant”; Kees Meerhoff, “Bonaventure Vulcanius et Heidelberg, citadelle fragile du monde réformé”; Anton van der Lem, “Bonaventura Vulcanius, forgeron de la Révolte”; Karel Bostoen, “Two Bruges Humanists: Vulcanius and Castelius. Good Friends or Mere Acquaintances?”; Alfons Dewitte, “Bonaventura Vulcanius, Marnix van St. Aldegonde, and the Spirit of Bruges: Remonstrant Protestanism?”; Chris L. Heesakkers, “Bonaventura Vulcanius, Janus Dousa and the ‘Pleias Dousica’; Jeanine De Landtsheer, “Between Colleagues: Bonaventura Vulcanius and Justus Lipsius”; Thomas M. Conley, “Vulcanius as Editor: The Greek Texts”; Gilbert Tournoy, “Scholarly Stresses and Strains: The Difficult Dealings of Bonaventura Vulcanius and Henricus Stephanus over their Edition of Arrian’s De Expeditione Alexandri Magni Historiarum Libri VIII”; Dirk van Miert, “Project Procopius: Scaliger, Vulcanius, Hoeschelius and the Pursuit of Early Byzantine History”; Toon van Hal, “Vulcanius and his Network of Language Lovers. De literis et lingua Getarum sive Gothorum (1597)”; Thomas M. Conley, “On the Attribution of the 1595 Leiden Edition of Pauli Warnefridi de gestis Langobardorum to Friedrich Lindenbrog”; and Kees Dekker, “The Runes in Bonaventura Vulcanius De literis and lingua Getarum sive Gothorum (1597): Provenance and Origins.”

Cefalu, Paul A., and Bryan R. Reynolds, eds. The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xv + 326 pp. index. illus. $90. ISBN: 978–0–230–23549–6. Includes: Paul Cefalu and Bryan Reynolds, “Tarrying with the Subjunctive, an Introduction”; F. Elizabeth Hart, “A Paltry ‘Hoop of Gold’: Semantics and Systematicity in Early Modern Studies”; Amy Cook, “If: Lear’s Feather and the Staging of Science”; Jen Boyle, “Ghosting the Subjunctive: Perceptual Technics in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and Transversal (New) Media”; Julian Yates, “What Was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions”; Julia Reinhard Lupton, “Invitation to a Totem Meal: Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt, and Political Theology”; Graham Hammill, “The Marlovian Sublime: Imagination and the Problem of Political Theology”; William N. West, “Humanism and the Resistance to Theology”; Ken Jackson, “‘Grace to boot’: St. Paul, Messianic Time, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale”; Gary Kuchar, “‘Loves Best Habit’: Eros, Agape, and the Psychotheology of Shakespeare’s Sonnets”; David Hawkes, “Against Materialism in Literary Theory”; Jerzy Limon, “Performativity of the Court: Stuart Masques as Postdramatic Theater”; Gabriel Egan, “Shakespeare, Idealism, and Universals: The Significance of Recent Work on the Mind”; and Ian Munro, “Theater and the Scriptural Economy in Doctor Faustus.”

Colón Semenza, Greg, ed. The English Renaissance in Popular Culture: An Age for All Time. Reproducing Shakespeare. New Studies in Adaptation and Appropriation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. x + 232 pp. index. illus. $80. ISBN: 978–0–230–10028–2. Includes: Greg Colón Semenza, “Introduction: An Age for All Time”; Ramona Wray, “Henry’s Desperate Housewives: The Tudors, the Politics of Historiography, and the Beautiful Body of Jonathan Rhys Meyers”; Adrienne L. Eastwood, “The Secret Life of Elizabeth I”; Courtney Lehmann, “Where the Maps End: Elizabeth: the Golden Age of Simulacra”; Amy Rodgers, “Looking Up to the Groundlings: Representing the Renaissance Audience in Contemporary Fiction and Film”; Melissa Croteau, “London’s Burning: Remembering Guy Fawkes and Seventeenth-Century Conflict in V for Vendetta”; Deborah Willis, “Reading the Early Modern Witch: Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s”; Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., “‘Sportful Combat’ Gets Medieval: The Representation of Historical Violence at Renaissance Fairs”; Deborah Cartmell, “The First Adaptation of Shakespeare and the Recovery of the ‘Renaissance’ Voice: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew”; Greg Colón Semenza, “God Save the Queene: Sex Pistols, Shakespeare, and Punk [Anti-] History”; Richard Burt, “Jacques Rivette and Film Adaptation as ‘Dérive-action’: Pericles in Paris Belongs to Us and The Revenger’s Tragedy in Noiroit”; James R. Keller, “Alex Cox’s Revenger’s Tragedy and the Foreclosure of Apocalyptic Teleology”; and Donald Hedrick, “Forget Film: Speculations on Shakespearean Entertainment Value.”

Cortesi, Mariarosa, ed. Leggere i Padri tra passato e presente: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi Cremona, 21–22 novembre 2008. Millennio Medievale 88; Atti di Convegni 26. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010. viii + 228 pp. + 14 color pls. index. append. illus. tbls. €52. ISBN: 978–88–8450–386–2. Includes: Mariarosa Cortesi,“Premessa”; Claudio Leonardi, “Esiste un Medioevo dei Padri?”; Cesare Alzati, “Parlare con la voce dei Padri. L’apologetica ambrosiana di fronte ai riformatori del secolo XI”; Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, “I Padri della Chiesa e l’immaginario medievale: natura e corporeità”; Pietro B. Rossi, “‘Diligenter notare,’ ‘pie intelligere,’ ‘reverenter exponere’: i teologi medievali lettori e fruitori dei Padri”; Giacomo Baroffio and Eun Ju Kim, “Proposte liturgico-musicali occidentali di testi partristici latini e greci”; Roberto Palla, “‘Edizioni antiche’ ed ‘edizioni moderne’ dei carmi di Gregorio Nazianzeno”; Marco D’Agostino, “I corpora patristici: aspetti grafici e tecnico-librari”; Mario Marubbi, “Illustrare i Padri”; and Silvia Fiaschi, “Richerche dal progetto RETRAPA: una silloge patristica a stampa di area veneta.”

Crisciani, Chiara, and Gabriella Zuccolin, eds. Michele Savonarola: Medicina e cultura di corte. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. xxii + 300 pp. index. tbls. €48. ISBN: 978–88– 8450–400–5 (pbk). Includes: Chiara Crisciani, “Nota introduttiva”; Monica Ferrari, “Il medico pedagogo del principe tra Quattro e Seicento: ricerche in progress e problemi aperti”; Riccardo Gualdo, “Per l’edizione delle opere volgari di Michele Savonarola”; Stefano Cracolici, “Michele Savonarola e le bizzarrie di corte”; Danielle Jacquart, “En feuilletant la Practica maior de Michel Savonarole: quelques échos d’une pratique”; Marylin Nicoud, “Inventio, experimentum e perizia medica nel De balneis di Michele Savonarola”; Elena Past, “Una ricetta per longo e iocundo vivere: Il Libreto de tutte le cosse che se magnano”; Romana Martorelli Vico, “Madri, levatrici, balie e padri: Michele Savonarola, l’embriologia e la cura dei piccoli”; Gabriella Zuccolin, “Nascere in latino e in volgare. Tra la Practica maior e il De regimine pregnantium”; Antonia Tissoni Benvenuti, “I libri di scienza negli inventari Estensi del Quattrocento”; Maria Luisa Picascia, “Forme di sapere etico-politico per il comportamento del principe”; and Silvia Nagel, “L’ ‘officina ebraica ferrarese’ fra XV e XVI secolo.”

De Bom, Erik, Marijke Janssens, Toon Van Houdt, and Jan Papy, eds. (Un)Masking the Realities of Power: Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xi + 348 pp. index. bibl. $141. ISBN: 978–90–04–19128–0. Includes: Erik De Bom, Marijke Janssens, Toon Van Houdt, and Jan Papy, “Introduction: Towards a More Balanced View of Justus Lipsius’s Political Writings and Their Influence”; Mikael Hörnqvist, “Exempla, Prudence and Casuistry in Renaissance Political Discourse”; Harro Höpfl, “History and Exemplarity in the Work of Lipsius”; Bo Lindberg, “Stoicism in Political Humanism and Natural Law”; Ann Moss, “Monita et exempla politica as Example of a Genre”; Marijke Janssens, “Rhetoric and Exemplarity in Justus Lipsius’s Monita et exempla politica”; Harald E. Braun, “Justus Lipsius and the Challenge of Historical Exemplarity”; George Hugo Tucker, “Justus Lipsius and the Cento Form”; Jan Papy, “Fate and Rule, Destiny and Dynasty: Lipsius’s Final Views on Superstition, Fate and Divination in the Monita et exempla politica (1605)”; Violet Soen, “The Clementia Lipsiana: Political Analysis, Autobiography and Panegyric”; Diana Stanciu, “Prudence in Lipsius’s Monita et exempla politica: Stoic Virtue, Aristotelian Virtue or not a Virtue at All?”; Wim Decock, “Secret Compensation: A Friendly and Lawful Alternative to Lipsius’s Political Thought”; Erik De Bom, “Carolus Scribani and the Lipsian Legacy. The Politico-Christianus and Lipsius’s Image of the Good Prince”; and Jacob Soll, “A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Absolutism, Natural Law and the Decline of Reason of State in France 1660–1760.”

Desan, Philippe, ed. Les Chapitres Oubliés des Essais de Montaigne. Actes des journées d’étude à la memoire de Michel Simonin. University of Chicago (Paris) 9 Avril et 5 Novembre 2010. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2011. Includes: Philippe Desan, “Les Chapitres Oubliés des Essais”; Alain Legros, “Délaissés, mais laissés, les chapitres d’une page et l’ordre des Essais”; Michel Magnien, “L’entrée en scène de la rhétorique (Essais, I, 9 & 1. 10)”; Anders Toftgaard, “La cérémonie entre préséance et civilite: le chapitre I, 13 et l’innutrition italienne des Essais”: Renzo Ragghianti, “Habitude, croyance et scepticisme dans l’action de ‘rapporter le vray et le faux à nostre suffisance’ (Essais, I, 27)”; Bruno Méniel, “Les chapitres centraux des trios livres des Essais: la magnanimité de l’ombre (I, 29; II, 19; III, 7)”; John O’Brien, “La vérité se rencontre-t-elle au train do la contingence?”; Olivier Guerrier, “Dans l’‘arrière-boutique’ de l’inventaire: ‘La fortune se rencontre souvent au train de la raison (Essais, I, 34)”; Frank Lestringant, “Montaigne, ‘De l’usage de se vestir’ (Essais, I, 34): variations sur le nu et le vêtu”; Bénédicte Boudou, “La valeur et la distinction: sens du chapitre I, 43 des Essais, et insertion dans le livre I”; Philippe Desan, “‘De la bataille de Dieux’ a la bataille de Dreux (I, 45) sur un lapsus des Essais”; Catherine Magnien-Simonin, “‘Des Senteurs’ (Essais, I, 55): un chapitre exemplaire, délaissé par la critique”; Jean Balsamo, “Brièveté du polémiste, brièveté heroique: à propos de ‘Contre la faineantise’ (Essais, II, 21)”; Rosanna Gorris Camos, “Vertiges de femmes, vertiges de mort: ‘De trios bonnes femmes’ (Essais, II, 35)”; Richard Scholar, “L’‘Oyson’ du IIIe livre: ‘De l’incommodité de la grandeur’ (Essais, III, 7)”; Giovanni Dotoli, “Montaigne entre le fixe et la mobile”; and Paul J. Smith, “Pieter Van Veen et les chapitres brefs du Livres I des Essais.”

Egan, Gabriel, ed. Electronic Publishing: Politics and Pragmatics. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 401. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. vii + 218 pp. illus. $52. ISBN: 978–0–86698–449–2. Includes: Gabriel Egan, “Introduction”; Peter Shillingsburg, “The Impact of Computers on the Art of Scholarly Editing”; Robert Whalen, “Digitizing George Herbert’s Temple”; Jeff Smith, “A First-Principles Reinvention of Software Tools for Creative Writing and Text Analysis in the Twenty-First Century”; Alan Galey, “Mechanick Exercises: The Question of Technical Competence in Digital Scholarly Editing”; Ian Lancashire, “SGML, Interpretation, and the Two Muses: A Critique of TEI P3 from the End of the Century”; Murray McGillivray, “Lancashire’s Two Muses: A Belated Reply”; Peter Robinson, “How We Have Been Publishing the Wrong Way, and How We Might Publish a Better Way”; Shawn Martin, “Open Access and Digital Libraries: A Case Study of the Text Creation Partnership”; Paul Vetch, “From Edition to Experience: Feeling the Way towards User-Focused Interfaces”; Martin Mueller, “The Book of English: Towards Digital Intertextuality and a Second-Generation Digital Library”; John Lavagnino, “Afterword.”

Everist, Mark, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxxii + 478 pp. index. tbls. map. chron. bibl. $39.99. ISBN: 978–0–521– 60861–9. Includes: Mark Everist, “Introduction”; Susan Boynton, “Plainsong”; Michael McGrade, “Enriching the Gregorian Heritage”; Sarah Fuller, “Early Polyphony to circa 1200”; Mark Everist, “The Thirteenth Century”; Elizabeth Eva Leach, “The Fourteenth Century”; Peter M. Lefferts, “England”; Marco Gozzi, “Italy to 1300”; “The Trecento”; Nicolas Bell, “The Iberian Penninsula”; Robert Curry, “Music East of the Rhine”; Sam Barrett, “Music and Liturgy”; Ardis Butterfield, “Vernacular Poetry and Music”; Leofranc Holford-Stevens, “Latin Poetry and Music”; Peter M. Lefferts, “Compositional Trajectories”; Rebecca A. Baltzer, “Ecclesiastical Foundations and Secular Institutions”; Dolores Pesce, “Theory and Notation”; Emma Dillon, “Music Manuscripts”; Christopher Page, “The Geography of Medieval Music”; and Lawrence Earp, “Reception.”

Fenton, Mary C., and Louis Schwartz, eds. Their Maker’s Image: New Essays on John Milton. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2011. 198 pp. index. $55. ISBN: 978–1–57591– 152–6. Includes: Mary C. Fenton and Louis Schwartz, “Introduction”; Richard J. DuRocher, “‘Tears such as Angels weep’: Passion and Allusion in Paradise Lost”; Maggie Kilgour, “Satan’s Envy and Poetic Emulation”; Sarah Van der Laan, “Waking Leucothea: An Unexplored Homeric Allusion in Paradise Lost”; David J. Bradshaw, “Self-sacrifice and Heroic Martyrdom in the Aeneid and Paradise Lost”; Thomas Festa, “God as Geometer and Architect in Paradise Lost”; Randall Ingram, “Lycidas beyond Words: Nonverbal Signs and Material Pages in the 1645 Poems”; Emma Annette Wilson, “How Milton’s Education at Christ’s College, Cambridge Influenced Logical Styles in Paradise Lost”; David Ainsworth, “‘Thou art sufficient to judge aright’: Spiritual Reading in Areopagitica”; Samuel Smith, “The Son’s Bounded Solitude in Paradise Regained”; and Nathaniel Stogdill, “Restoration Polemic and the Making of the Papist Milton.”

Fitch, Fabrice, and Jacobijn Kiel, eds. Essays on Renaissance Music in Honour of David Fallows: Bon jour, bon mois et bonne estrenne. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2011. xx + 422 pp. index. illus. $95. ISBN: 978–1–8438–3619– 3. Includes: Christopher Page, “David Fallows and the Performance of Medieval Music”; Rob C. Wegman, “Fremin le Caron at Amiens: New Documents”; Jane Alden, “Ung Petit cadeau: Verbal and Visual Play in the Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier”; Bonnie J. Blackburn, “A New Tenor on So ys emprentid”; Honey Meconi, “Shedding New Light (Literally) on the Rochester Fascicle: A Preliminary Report”; Gianluca D’Agostino, “Two Musical Letters from Aragonese Naples”; Andrew Kirkman, “Johannes Sohier dit Fede and St Omer: A Story of Pragmatic Sanctions”; Margaret Bent, “Petrarch, Padua, the Malatestas, Du Fay, and Vergene bella”; James Haar, “A Suggestion about Fauxbourdon”; Alejandro Enrique Planchart, “Du Fay’s Plainsong Paraphrase Settings”; Jesse Rodin, “With a Flourish: Melismatic Writing in Du Fay’s Early Songs”; Lorenz Welker, “Portugaler: Guillaume Du Fay’s Contribution to Instrumental Music?”; Kinuho Endo, “A Reconsideration of the Mass Cycle by Arnold de Lantins and Ciconia ini Bologna Q15”; Joshua Rifkin, “Martini and Obrecht: Some Speculations”; Thomas Schmidt-Beste, “The Art of Cellular Counterpoint: The Motets of Petrus Wilhelmi”; Richard Sherr, “What Were They Thinking? Sola caret monstris at the Papal Court”; Peter Wright, “A Gloria Newly Attributed to Byttering”; Fabrice Fitch, “Agricola VIII/Obrecht Canon III”; Tess Knighton, “A New Song in a Strange Land? Garcimuños’s Una montaña pasando”; Warwick Edwards, “Isaac’s Pre-Italian Songs: An Over-Optimistic Hand-List”; Adam Knight Gilbert, “Words and Music in the Sea of Long Waiting”; Markus Jans, “‘Dieu vous doinst hui en bonne estraine tout le desir de vostre cœur’: Observations on Binchois’s Margarite, fleur de valeur”; Oliver Neighbour, “Three Times Seven Songs by Byrd”; Anthony Rooley, “‘I must complain’: A Comparative Study in Variant Settings”; Keith Polk, “Heinrich Isaac and Shifting Musical Perspectives, c. 1485–1490”; Jaap Van Benthem, “‘Plaine de dueil et de melancolie’: Tracing a Negative of Josquin des Prez”; John Milsom, “Surface, Structure and ‘Style’ in Absalon fili mi”; Fabrice Fitch, “Who Really Knows Who Composed Mille regretz?”; Jeffrey J. Dean, “Josquin, Two Contrafacta, and the Lost Stanzas of ‘Comment peult avoir joye’”; Eric Jas, “In pace in idipsum: A Little-Known Motet Attributed to Josquin”; Peter Gulke, “Verspätete Monologe–Brahms Klavierstücke op. 116, 117, 118, und 119”; Iain Fenlon, “Confessional Companions: Herpol, Glareanus, and Friends”; Barbara Haggh, “Credit for Music in Court and City in the Low Countries, 1467–1500”; Dagmar Hoffmann-Axthelm, “David musicus, or: On the Consoling Power of String Music”; Leofranc Holford-Strevens, “The Laudes Musicae in Renaissance Music Treatises”; Andrea Lindmayr- Brandl, “The Role of Music in Sixteenth-Century German Life: A Close Look at the Iconography of Hans Sachs’s and Jost Amman’s Ständebuch”; Esperanza Rodríguez-García, “The Perfect Spanish Chapelmaster: The Depiction of the Composer Ginés Pérez in Felipe Pedrell’s Hispaniae Schola Musica Sacra”; Eugeen Schreurs, “The ‘Topstukkendecreet’ in Flanders and its Musical Context: The Case of Glareanus’ Dodekachordon”; and Reinhard Strohm, “The Difference of Early European Music.”

Geonget, Stéphan, ed. Bourges à la Renaissance: hommes de lettres, hommes de lois. Paris: Klincksieck, 2011. 524 pp. index. illus. tbls. €54. ISBN: 978–2–252–03786–7. Includes: Stéphan Geonget, “Bourges 1530, des idées et des hommes”; Richard Cooper, “Jean Chaumeau et l’histoire de Bourges”; Jean-Yves Ribault, “L’école de grec dans la topographie universitaire de Bourges (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)”; David Rivaud, “L’Université et la ville à Bourges, fin XVe–milieu XVIe siècles”; Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès, “François Habert, Jean Bouchet, Jean Chaponneau: juristes, acteurs et auteurs de théâtre à Bourges et à Issoudun dans les années 1530”; Philippe Goldman, “Geoffroy Troy de Bourges”; Marie-Luce Demonet, “Geoffroy Troy, Jean Perréal et l’homme normé”; Jean-Louis Thireau, “Les conflits entre professeurs de droit à l’université de Bourges au XVIe siècle: querelles de personnes ou opposition des méthodes?”; Patrick Arabeyre, “Maîtres méridionaux de la Faculté de Droit de Bourges au premier tiers du XVIe siècle”; Nathalie Dauvois, “Toulouse-Cahors-Bourges: Circulation des idées et des hommes”; Marie-Élisabeth Boutroue, “Étienne de Laigue, un gentilhomme du Berry dans la mouvance politique des frères du Bellay?”; Marie-Claude Tucker, “Deux juristes lettrès produits de l’École de Bourges: les Écossais Henry Scrimgeour et Edward Henryson circa 1538–1547”; Paul-Alexis Mellet, “Une ‘sophisterie de chaffoureur’: histoire des institutions et enseignement du droit chez Hotman”; Frédéric Gabriel, “De statu primitivae Ecclesiae: histoire, chrétienté et réforme chez les civilistes de l’école de Bourges (Douaren, Bauduin, Hotman)”; Ian Maclean, “Le séjour d’Alciat à Bourges, vu à travers sa correspondance et ses préfaces berruyères”; Corinne Leveleux-Teixeira and Marie Bassano, “Alciat, le De verborum significatione et la morphologie du droit”; Catherine Langlois-Pézeret, “Jean Second, poète flamand, observateur des hommes de loi et des hommes de lettres du milieu berruyer à Bourges en 1532”; Valérie Hayaert, “Arbres de parenté et stemmata juris dans le commentaire au De gradibus affinitatis de Pierre Loriot, Lyon, Gryphe, 1542”; Bruno Garnier, “Guillaume Bochetel (?–1558): l’irrésistible ascension d’un lettré de province sous François Ier”; Françoise Michaud-Fréjaville, “Du passé ne pas faire table rase: Jacques Thiboust, seigneur et feudiste”; Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine, “Entre poésie et jurisprudence: portrait de l’humaniste idéal dans la correspondance de Viglius van Aytta”; Ullrich Langer, “Justice de la coutume, justesse du proverbe chez Antoine Loisel”; Bruno Méniel, “Noël Du Fail, écrivain et juriste”; Marie Madeleine Fontaine, “Barthélemy Aneau entre deux villes: fidélités à sa ville d’origine, et responsabilités”; and Anne Teissier-Ensminger, “Du droit lettré à la juslittérature: les Broé, père et fils, au XVIIe siècle.”

Glaze, Florence Eliza, and Brian K. Nance, eds. Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. xii + 570 pp. index. illus. tbls. €72. ISBN: 978–88–8450–401–2 (pbk). Includes: Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance, “Introduction”; Francis Newton, “Arabic Medicine and Other Arabic Cultural Influences in Southern Italy in the Time of Constantinus Africanus (saec. XI2)”; Florence Eliza Glaze, “Prolegomena: Scholastic Openings to Gariopontus of Salerno’s Passionarius”; Pedro Gil-Sotres, “The Viridarium id est Expositio Antidotarii Nicolai Salernitani by Stephanus Arlandi”; Luke Demaitre, “Skin and the City: Cosmetic Medicine as an Urban Concern”; Joseph Ziegler, “Medicine and the Body at the Table in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Book one of Philip of Ferrara’s Liber de introductione loquendi”; Joan Cadden, “In Search of the Divine Physician: Learned Medicine and Psychology in the Works of Three Fifteenth-Century Spanish Nuns”; Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, “Antidotum cui nomen est acharistum”; Anne Van Arsdall, “The Transmission of Knowledge in Early Medieval Medical Texts: An Exploration”; Mary K. K. Yearl, “Bloodletting as Recreation in the Monasteries of Medieval Europe”; Linda Ehrsam Voigts, “Fifteenth-Century English Banns Advertising the Services of an Itinerant Doctor”; Peter Murray Jones, “Mediating Collective Experience: the Tabula Medicine (1416–1425) as a Handbook for Medical Practice”; Piers D. Mitchell, “The Spread of Disease with the Crusades”; Monica Green, “Moving from Philology to Social History: The Circulation and Uses of Albucasis’s Latin Surgery in the Middle Ages”; Fernando Salmón, “From Patient to Text? Narratives of Pain and Madness in Medical Scholasticism”; Jon Arrizabalaga, “The Changing Identity of the French Pox in Early Renaissance Castile”; Brian K. Nance, “The Arena and the Study: Medical Practice in Turquet de Mayerne’s Treatment of Robert Cecil’s Final Illness”; Nancy G. Siraisi, “Theory, Experience, and Customary Practice in the Medical Writings of Francisco Sanches”; Charles Burnett, “The Latin Versions of Maimonides’ On Sexual Intercourse (De coitu)”; Vivian Nutton, “Pseudonymity and the Critic: Authenticating the Medieval Galen”; Ian Maclean, “The Reception of Medieval Practical Medicine in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova”; and Laura Nuvoloni, “Medieval Medical Manuscripts in the British Library’s Harleian Collection.”

Gorni, Guglielmo, ed. Italique: Poésie italienne de la Renaissance. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2010. 126 pp. tbls. $50. ISBN: 978–2–600–01489–2 (pbk). Includes: Guglielmo Gorni, “Avertissement”; Maria Antonietta Terzoli, “Poètes, Muses et divinités dans les textes liminaires des recueils poétiques: le premier sonnet de Giovanni della Casa”; Gabriele Bucchi, “Au delà du tombeau: Pyrame de Thisbè dans deux réécritures de la Renaissance italienne”; Riccardo Benedettini, “Il Negromante de l’Arioste traduit par Jean de La Taille”; and Concetta Cavallini, “‘Estrange amour, qui n’as point ta pareille!’: Pierre de Brach et la traduction de l’Aminte du Tasse.”

Gossett, Suzanne, ed. Thomas Middleton in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxix + 386 pp. index. illus. map. chron. $110. ISBN: 978–0–521–19054–1. Includes: Suzanne Gossett, “Introduction”; Mark Hutchings, “Thomas Middleton, Chronologer of His Time”; Darryll Grantley, “Middleton’s Comedy and the Geography of London”; Andrew Gordon, “The Puritan Widow and the Spatial Arts of Middleton’s Urban Drama”; Ian Munro, “The Populations of London”; Catherine Richardson, “Domestic Life in Jacobean London”; Elizabeth Lane Furdell, “Life and Death in Middleton’s London”; Aaron Kitch, “The City’s Money”; Natasha Korda, “Trade, Work, and Workers”; Ceri Sullivan, “Supplying the City”; Karen Newman, “Celebrating the City”; Jennifer Low, “Violence in the City”; Subha Mukherji, “Middleton and the Law”; Alastair Bellany, “The Court”; Thomas Cogswell, “States and Their Pawns: English Political Tensions from the Armada to the Thirty Years War”; Ian W. Archer, “Religious Identities”; Trudi L. Darby, “The Obsession with Spain”; Andrew Gurr, “The Social Cartography of Middleton’s Theatres”; David Kathman, “The Boy’s Plays and the Boy Players”; Roslyn L. Knutson, “The Adult Companies and the Dynamics of Commerce”; Janet Clare, “The Theatre and Political Control”; Linda Phyllis Austern, “Music on the Jacobean Stage”; Elizabeth Pearl and Hannah Kirby, “Middleton and ‘modern use’: Case Studies in the Language of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside”; Sylvia Adamson (with Hannah Kirby, Laurence Peacock, and Elizabeth Pearl), “Middleton and ‘modern use’: Case Studies in the Language of A Chaste Maid in Cheapside”; James P. Bednarz, “Collaboration: The Shadow of Shakespeare”; Heather Hirschfeld, “Collaboration: Sustained Partnerships”; Eric Rasmussen, “Collaboration: The Determination of Authorship”; Suzanne Gossett, “Middleton and Dramatic Genre”; Alison A. Chapman, “Writing Outside the Theatre”; Anke Bernau, “Medieval Remains in Middleton’s Writings”; Caroline Bicks, “Gender and Sexuality”; Jennifer Panek, “Women’s Life Stages: Maid, Wife, Widow (Whore)”; Farah Karim-Cooper, “Disguise and Identity in the Plays of Middleton”; Tanya Pollard, “Drugs, Remedies, Poisons, and the Theatre”; Michael Neill, “Middleton and the Supernatural”; Carol Thomas Neely, “‘Distracted measures’: Madness and Theatricality in Middleton”; Sonia Massai, “Invisible Middleton and the Bibliographical Context”; Diana E. Henderson, “Afterlives: Stages and Beyond”; Pascale Aebischer, “Middleton in the Cinema”; and Simon Palfrey, “Middleton’s Presence.”

Hirst, Derek, and Steven N. Zwicker, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xv + 224 pp. index. chron. $29.99. ISBN: 978– 0–521–71116–6 (pbk). Includes: Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker, “Introduction”; James Loxley, “The Social Modes of Marvell’s Poetry”; Paul Davis, “Marvell and the Literary Past”; Matthew C. Augustine, “Borders and Transitions in Marvell’s Poetry”; Daine Purkiss, “Thinking of Gender”; Michael Schoenfeldt, “Marvell and the Designs of Art”; Phil Withington, “Andrew Marvell’s Citizenship”; Andrew McRae, “The Green Marvell”; Joad Raymond, “A Cromwellian Centre?”; John Spurr, “The Poet’s Religion”; Nicholas von Maltzahn, “Adversarial Marvell”; and Nigel Smith, “How to Make a Biography of Andrew Marvell.”

Hiscock, Andrew, ed. Women Beware Women: A Critical Guide. London: Continuum, 2011. xiv + 208 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–1–84706–093–8 (pbk). Includes: Andrew Hiscock, “Introduction”; Robert C. Evans, “The Critical Backstory”; Paul Innes, “Out of the Repertoire: Women Beware Women and Performance History”; Annaliese Connolly, “In the Repertoire: Women Beware Women on Stage”; Joost Daalder, “The State of the Art”; Anne McLaren, “New Directions: Women Beware Women and Jacobean Cultural Narratives”; Helen Wilcox, “New Directions: Women Beware Women and the Arts of Looking and Listening”; Edward Gieskes, “New Directions: Women Beware Women and Genre Theory”; Coppélia Kahn, “New Directions: ‘Two kings on one throne’: Lust, Love, and Marriage in Women Beware Women”; and Liz Oakley-Brown, “Learning and Teaching Resources: Mapping Texts, Spaces and Bodies.”

Jackson, Ken, and Arthur F. Marotti, eds. Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. vi + 306 pp. index. $38. ISBN: 978–0–268–03270–8 (pbk). Includes: Ken Jackson and Arthur F. Marotti, “Introduction”; Robert Miola, “Two Jesuit Shadows in Shakespeare: William Weston and Henry Garnet”; Gary Kuchar, “Decorum and the Politics of Ceremony in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus”; Richard McCoy, “Miracles and Mysteries in The Comedy of Errors”; Sarah Beckwith, “Acknowledgment and Confession in Cymbeline”; Hannibal Hamlin, “The Patience of Lear”; Julia Reinhard Lupton, “The Wizards of Uz: Shakespeare and the Book of Job”; Lisa Myōbun Freinkel, “Empson’s Dog: Emptiness and Divinity in Timon of Athens”; Joan Pong Linton, “The Passing of Falstaff: Rethinking History, Refiguring the Sacred”; Ken Jackson, “Richard II, Abraham, and the Abrahamic”; and James A. Knapp, “Penitential Ethics in Measure for Measure.”

Keblusek, Marika, and Badeloch Vera Noldus, eds. Double Agents: Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xv + 280 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $136. ISBN: 978–90–04–20269–6. Includes: Marika Keblusek, “Introduction: Double Agents in Early Modern Europe”; “The Embassy of Art: Diplomats as Cultural Brokers”; Robert Hill, “Art and Patronage: Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian Embassy 1604–1624”; Thomas Kirk, “Giovanni Andrea Doria: Citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, Agent of King Philip II of Spain”; Bianca Chen, “Politics and Letters: Gisbert Cuper as a Servant of Two Republics”; Marika Keblusek, “Mercator Sapiens: Merchants as Cultural Entrepeneurs”; Maartje van Gelder, “Acquiring Artistic Expertise: The Agent Daniel Nijs and His Contacts with Artists in Venice”; Maurits A. Ebben, “García de Yllán: A Merchant in Silver, Bread and Bullets and a Broker in Art, 1591–1655”; Marika Keblusek, “The Pretext of Pictures: Artists as Cultural and Political Agents”; Badeloch Vera Noldus, “A Spider in Its Web: Agent and Artist Michel le Blon and His Northern European Network”; Peter Hauge, “John Dowland’s Employment at the Royal Danish Court: Musician, Agent––and Spy?”; Susanne Kubersky-Piredda and Salvador Salort Pons, “Travels of a Court Jester: Gonzalo de Liaño, Art Agent at the Court of King Philip II of Spain”; and Martin Dönike, “‘From Russia with Love’: Agents and Their Victims.”

Maes, Yanick, Jan Papy, and Wim Verbaal, eds. Latinitas Perennis. Vol. 2: Appropriation and Latin Literature. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 178. Leiden: Brill, 2009. vii + 248 pp. index. $144. ISBN: 978–90–04–17683–6. Includes: Yanick Maes, “Continuity Through Appropriation? By Way of Introduction”; Christine Walde, “Roman Dream Works”; Alessandro Barchiesi, “Exemplarity: Between Practice and Text”; George Hugo Tucker, “The Language of Grief and the Poetics of Conjugal Mourning: From Euripides (Alcestis, Transl. Buchanan) to Joachim Du Bellay (Tumuli [Poematum Libri Quatuor], 1558”; Harm-Jan van Dam, “Taking Occasion by the Forelock: Dutch Poets and Appropriation of Occasional Poems”; Gunilla Iversen, “Vergil, the Psalms, and New Poetic Genres in Medieval Latin Literature”; Pascale Bourgain, “Latin Culture and Oriental Wisdom”; Walter Berschin, “Is There such a Thing as a Latin Epochal Style?”; and Christopher S. Celenza, “End Game: Humanist Latin in the Late Fifteenth Century.”

Marrapodi, Michele, ed. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories: Anglo-Italian Transactions. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xiv + 322 pp. index. illus. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–2149–8. Includes: Michele Marrapodi, “Introduction: Shakespeare against Genres”; Stephen Orgel, “Shakespeare and the Art of Forgetting”; Robin Headlam Wells, “Shakespearean Comedy: Postmodern Theory and Humanist Poetics”; John Roe, “Shakespeare: What Rhetoric Accomplishes”; Mariangela Tempera, “Shakespearean Outdoings: Titus Andronicus and Italian Renaissance Tragedy”; Adam Max Cohen, “Transalpine Wonders: Shakespeare’s Marvelous Aesthetics”; Frances K. Barasch, “Hamlet versus Commedia dell’Arte”; Hugh Grady, “The End of Shakespeare’s Machiavellian Moment: Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s Historiography, and Dramatic Form”; Anthony Ellis, “The Problem of Old Age: Anticomedy in As You Like It and Ruzante’s L’Anconitana”; Robert Henke, “Ruzante and Shakespeare: A Comparative Case- Study”; Michele Marrapodi, “The ‘Woman as Wonder’ Trope: From Commedia Grave to Shakespeare’s Pericles and the Last Plays”; François Laroque, “Shakespeare’s Italian Carnival: Venice and Verona Revisited”; Susan Payne, “(Re)fracted Art and Ordered Nature: Italian Renaissance Aesthetics in Shakespeare’s Richard II”; Keir Elam, “‘Tis Pity She’s Italian: Performing the Courtesan on the Early Seventeenth-Century English Stage”; Duncan Salkeld, “Silence, Seeing, and Performativity: Shakespeare and the Paragone”; Michael Wyatt, “Italian Spectacle and the Worlds of James VI/I”; and Louise George Clubb, “How Do We Know When Worlds Meet?”

Nesi, Antonella, ed. Il Porcellino di Pietro Tacca: le sue basi, la sua storia. Firenze: Edizioni Polistampa, 2011. 78 pp. illus. €12. ISBN: 978–88–596–0913–1 (pbk). Includes: Antonella Nesi, “Il Porcellino, le sue basi, la sua storia”; Marina Clauser and Chiara Nepi, “La Fontana del Tacca osservata dal botanico: identificazione delle piante raffigurate intorno al ‘Porcellino’”; and Maria Donata Mazzoni and Elena Della Schiava, “Vicende conservative del Cinghiale e delle sue Basi.”

Niayesh, Ladan, ed. A Knight’s Legacy: Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. xi + 216 pp. index. £55. ISBN: 978– 0–7190–8175–0. Includes: Mary Baine Campbell, “Introduction”; Michael C. Seymour, “Mandeville in England: the Early Years”; Charles W. R. D. Moseley, “‘Whet-stone leasings of old Maundeuile”: Reading the Travels in Early Modern England”; Kenneth Parker, “Mandeville Reviviscent: Early Modern Travel Tales”; Leo Carruthers, “The Four Rivers of Paradise: Mandeville and the Book of Genesis”; Matthew Dimmock, “Mandeville on Muhammad: Texts, Contexts and Influence”; Line Cottegnies, “A ‘science of dreams’: ‘the fantastic ethnography’ of Sir Walter Ralegh and Baconian Experimentalism”; Richard Hillman, “Marlowe’s Tamburlaine: the Well-Travelled Tyrant and Some of His Unchecked Baggage”; Ladan Niayesh, “Prester John Writes Back: The Legend and Its Early Modern Reworkings”; Gordon McMullan, “Stage-Mandevilles: The Far- East and the Limits of Representation in the Theatre, 1621–2002”; and Claire Jowitt, “The Politics of Mandevillian Monsters in Richard Brome’s The Antipodes”;

Oy-Marra, Elisabeth, and Volker R. Remmert, eds. Le monde est une peinture: Jesuitische Identität und die Rolle der Bilder. Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2011. 252 pp. illus. bibl. €49.80. ISBN: 978–3–05–004636–5. Includes: Elisabeth Oy-Marra and Volker Remmert, “Einleitung”; Carolin Behrmann, “‘Le monde est une peinture’: Zu Louis Richeômes Bildtheorie im Kontext globaler Mission”; Antonella Romano, “Multiple Identities, Conflicting Duties and Fragmented Pictures: The Case of the Jesuits”; Ralph Dekoninck, “On the Threshold of a Spiritual Journey: The Appealing Function of the Jesuit Frontispiece (Antwerp, 1593–1640)”; Volker R. Remmert, “Visuelle Strategien zur Konturierung eines jesuitischen Wissensreiches”; Joseph Imorde, “Visualising the Eucharist: Theoretical Problems”; Evonne Levy, “Jesuit Identity, Identifiable Jesuits?: Jesuit Dress in Theory and in Image”; Kristina Müller-Bongard, “Konzepte zur Konsolidierung einer jesuitischen Identität Die Märtyrerzyklen der jesuitischen Kollegien in Rom”; Eckhard Leuschner, “Propagating St. Michael in Munich: The New Jesuit Church and Its Early Representations in the Light of International Visual Communications”; and Elisabeth Oy-Marra, “Die Natur als Künstlerin: Giovanni Battista Ferraris Beschreibungen technischer Verfahren zur Herstellung von Blumenbildern.”

Raymond, Joad, ed. Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxix + 672 pp. index. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. $180. ISBN: 978–0–19–928704–8. Includes: Joad Raymond, “Introduction: The Origins of Popular Print Culture”; Michael J. Braddick, “England and Wales”; Hamish Mathison, “Scotland”; Jane Ohlmeyer, “Ireland”; Tim Harris, “Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitions”; Joad Raymond, “The Development of the Book Trade in Britain”; Anna Bayman, “Printing, Learning, and the Unlearned”; Heidi Brayman Hackel, “Popular Literacy and Society”; Stephen B. Dobranski, “Reading Strategies”; Julie Crawford, “Oral Culture and Popular Print”; Andrew McRae, “Manuscript Culture and Popular Print”; Alastair Bellany, “Libel”; William H. Sherman, “The Social Life of Books”; Roger Chartier, “France and Spain”; Ottavia Niccoli, “Italy”; Margit Thofner, “The Netherlands”; Alisha Rankin, “Germany”; Peter Lake, “Religion and Cheap Print”; David Colclough, “Rhetoric”; Markku Peltonen, “Political Argument”; Helen Pierce, “Images, Representation, and Counter-representation”; Sara Mendelson, “Women and Print”; Mark Jenner, “London”; Thomas Cogswell, “Parliament and Press”; Nicole Greenspan, “War”; Angela McShane, “Ballads and Broadsides”; Lori Humphrey Newcomb, “Romance”; Joad Raymond, “News”; Simon Schaffer, “Science”; Mary Fissell, “Popular Medical Writing”; Lauren Kassell, “Almanacs and Prognostications”; Peter Burke, “Popular History”; Jason Peacey, “Pamphlets”; Lori Humphrey Newcomb, “Chapbooks”; Mary Morrissey, “Sermons, Primers, and Prayerbooks”; Natasha Glaisyer, “Popular Didactic Literature”; Zachary Lesser, “Playbooks”; Tracey A. Sowerby, “1535”; Cathy Shrank, “1553”; Jesse M. Lander, “1588–1589”; Matthew Woodcock, “1603”; Thomas Cogswell, “1625”; Jason McElligott, “1641”; Martin Dzelzainis, “1649”; and Gerald MacLean, “1660.”

Rosenberg, Charles M., ed. The Court Cities of Northern Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini. Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxvii + 424 pp. + 35 color pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $175. ISBN: 978–0–521–79248–6. Includes: Charles M. Rosenberg, “Introduction”; Evelyn Welch, “Patrons, Artists, and Audiences in Renaissance Milan, 1300–1600”; Giuseppe Bertini, “Center and Periphery: Art Patronage in Renaissance Piacenza and Parma”; Molly Bourne, “The Art of Diplomacy: Mantua and the Gonzaga, 1328–1630”; Anthony Colantuono, “Estense Patronage and the Construction of the Ferrarese Renaissance, c. 1395–1598”; David J. Drogin, “Art, Patronage, and Civic Identities in Renaissance Bologna”; and Mary Hollingsworth, “Art Patronage in Renaissance Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini, c. 1400–1550.”

Sanders, Julie, ed. Ben Jonson in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxiv + 366 pp. index. illus. map. chron. $110. ISBN: 978–0–521–89571–2. Includes: Richard Dutton, “Tales of a Life”; Matthew Steggle, “Jonson in the Elizabethan Period”; Andrew McRae, “Jonson in the Jacobean Period”; Martin Butler, “Jonson in the Caroline Period”; Katharine Eisaman Maus, “Genre”; Michelle O’Callaghan, “Friends, Collaborators and Rivals”; Mark Robson, “Jonson and Shakespeare”; Eugene Giddens, “Editions and Editors”; James Loxley, “Critical Reception”; Lois Potter, “Performance Afterlives”; Adam Zucker, “London and Urban Space”; Tiffany Stern, “The Globe Theatre and the Open-Air Amphitheatres”; Lucy Munro, “The Whitefriars Theatre and the Children’s Companies”; Janette Dillon, “The Blackfriars Theatre and the Indoor Theatres”; Steve Hindle, “Provinces, Parishes and Neighbourhoods”; Malcolm Smuts, “The Court”; Karen Britland, “Masques, Courtly and Provincial”; David Lindley, “Music”; Barbara Ravelhofer, “Dance”; James Knowles, “Manuscript Culture and Reading Practices”; Alan B. Farmer, “Print Culture and Reading Practices”; John Peacock, “Visual Culture”; Ben Morgan, “The Body”; Lorna Hutson, “Law, Crime and Punishment”; Julie Maxwell, “Religion”; Andrew Hadfield, “Politics”; Clare McManus, “Rank”; Kate Chedgzoy, “Households”; Rebecca Ann Bach, “Foreign Travel and Exploration”; Julie Sanders, “Domestic Travel and Social Mobility”; Christopher Burlinson, “Money and Consumerism”; Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., “Land”; Helen Ostovich, “Patronage”; Mimi Yiu, “Architecture”; Robert Appelbaum, “Food”; Margaret Healy, “Alchemy, Magic and the Sciences”; Eleanor Lowe, “Cothing and Fashion”; and Mario DiGangi, “Gender and Sexuality.”

Schnettger, Matthias, and Carlo Taviani, eds. Libertà e dominio: Il sistema politico genovese: le relazioni esterne e il controllo del territorio. Rome: Viella S.r.l., 2011. 388 pp. index. tbls. €40. ISBN: 978–88–8334–477–0 (pbk). Includes: Matthias Schnettger and Carlo Taviani, “Introduzione”; Marco Veronesi, “Genova medievale e la storiografia tedesca dell’Ottocento: Historische Rechtsschule, Kulturgeschichte e i giuscommercialisti”; Christine Shaw, “The French Signoria over Genoa, 1458–1461”; Fabien Levy, “Gênes au XVe siècle, dominations étrangères et espirt civique”; Arturo Pacini, “Macchine, porte, chiavi, scale: logistica militare e affari finanziari a Genova tra fine Cinque e inizio Seicento”; Matthias Schnettger, “Libertà e imperialità. La Repubblica di Genova e il Sacro Romano Impero nel tardo Cinquecento”; Julia Zunckel, “Tra Bodin e la Madonna. La valenza della corte di Roma nel sistema politico genovese. Riflessioni sull’anello mancante”; Carlo Bitossi, “L’immagine del sistema politico genovese nell’età moderna: scrittori e ambasciatori (1550–1730)”; Andrea Bernardini, “Le cose nostre de Lurisana: il dominio di San Giorgio nell’estremo levante ligure”; Antoine-Marie Graziani, “Saint-Georges et la Corse: un ‘bon gouvernement’?”; Carlo Taviani, “‘Hanno levato l’amore dal comune e postolo a San Giorgio.’ L’immagine del comune e della Casa di San Giorgio di Genova (XV–XVI sec.)”; Andrea Zanini, “Feudi, feudatari ed economie nella montagna ligure”; and Vittorio Tigrino, “Il dibattito storico- politico sul Dominio della Repubblica di Genova in età moderna: feudi, ex-feudi, città e quasi- città.”

Shakespeare Studies. Volume 48 (2010). Tokyo: The Shakespeare Society of Japan, 2010. iv + 56 pp. tbls. ¥2000. ISSN: 0582–9402. Includes: Jim Ryan, “The Symbolic Meals in Othello”; and Laurence Publicover, “Time and the Supernatural in The Winter’s Tale.”

Steggle, Matthew, ed. Volpone: A Critical Guide. London: Continuum, 2011. xi + 200 pp. index. chron. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–8264–1153–2 (pbk). Includes: Sam Thompson, “The Critical Backstory”; Rebecca Yearling, “Volpone on the Stage”; Robert C. Evans, “The State of the Art”; James P. Bednarz, “New Directions: Jonson’s Literary Theatre: Volpone in Performance and Print (1606–1607)”; Rick Bowers, “New Directions: ‘Live Free,… Rob Churches,… Lend me your Dwarf’: What’s Funny about Volpone?”; Frances Teague, “New Directions: Ben Jonson and Imprisonment”; Stella Achilleos, “New Directions: Age and Ageing in Volpone”; and Matthew C. Hansen, “Resources for Teaching and Studying Volpone.”

van Miert, Dirk, ed. The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511–1575): Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xii + 320 pp. index. illus. $136. ISBN: 978–90–04–20914–5. Includes: Dirk van Miert, “Introduction: Hadrianus Junius and Northern Dutch Humanism”; Chris Heesakkers, “From Erasmus to Leiden: Hadrianus Junius and His Significance for the Development of Humanism in Holland in the Sixteenth Century”; Coen Maas, “Hadrianus Junius’ Batavia and the Formation of a Historiographical Canon in Holland”; Nico de Glas, “Context, Conception and Content of Hadrianus Junius’ Batavia”; Dirk van Miert, “Hadrianus Junius’ Animadversa and His Methods of Scholarship”; Chris Heesakkers, “Junius’ Two Editions of Martial’s Epigrammata”; Toon Van Hal, “A Man of Eight Hearts: Hadrianus Junius and Sixteenth-Century Plurilinguism”; Ari Wesseling, “Devices, Proverbs, Emblems: Hadrianus Junius’ Emblemata in the Light of Erasmus’ Adagia”; Karl Enenkel, “Emblematic Authorization — Lusus Emblematum: The Function of Junius’ Emblem Commentary and Early Commentaries on Alciato’s Emblematum libellus”; and Dirk van Miert, “Epilogue: the Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius.”

Wallwork, Jo, and Paul Salzman, eds. Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. x + 148 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–1969–3. Includes: Jacqueline Broad, “Mary Astell’s Machiavellian Moment? Politics and Feminism in Moderation truly Stated”; Michal Michelson, “‘that you may [be] … as wise as Angels’: The Religious Foundations of Mary Astell’s Proposal for the Ladies, Parts I and II”; Jo Wallwork, “Disruptive Behaviour in the Making of Science: Cavendish and the Community of Seventeenth- Century Science”; L. E. Semler, “The Magnetic Attraction of Margaret Cavendish and Walter Charleton”; Alexandra G. Bennett, “‘Yes, and’: Margaret Cavendish, the Passions and Hermaphrodite Agency”; David McInnis, “Virginian Culture and Experimental Genre in Aphra Behn’s The Widow Ranter”; Rosalinde Schut, “‘La Femme Forte’: Katherine Philips and the Politics of herDublin Writings, 1662–3” and Joanna Fowler, “Narrative Person, Perspective and Voice in Eliza Haywood’s The Adventures of Eovaai.”

White, Micheline, ed. English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500–1625. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xiii + 252 pp. index. illus. bibl. $104.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–0651–8. Includes: Micheline White, “Introduction: Women, Religious Communities, Prose Genres, and Textual Production”; Patricia Phillippy, “Living Stones: Lady Elizabeth Russell and the Art of Sacred Conversation”; Mary Trull, “‘Theise dearest offrings of my heart’: The Sacrifice of Praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke’s Psalmes”; Susannah Brietz Monta, “Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic Patronage”; Jaime Goodrich, “‘Ensigne- Bearers of Saint Clare’: Elizabeth Evelinge’s Early Translations and the Restoration of English Franciscanism”; Julie Crawford, “Lady Anne Clifford and the Uses of Christian Warfare”; Janel Mueller, “Prospecting for Common Ground in Devotion: Queen Katherine Parr’s Personal Prayer Book”; Susan M. Felch, “‘Halff a Scrypture Woman’: Heteroglossia and Female Authorial Agency in Prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill”; Kate Narveson, “Authority, Scripture, and Typography in Lady Grace Mildmay’s Manuscript Meditations”; Brenda M. Hosington, “Lady Margaret Beaufort’s Translations as Mirrors of Practical Piety”; and Patricia Demers, “‘Nether bitterly nor brablingly’: Lady Anne Cooke Bacon’s Translation of Bishop Jewel’s Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae.”

Young, Spencer E., ed. Crossing Boundaries at Medieval Universities. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume 36. Leiden: Brill, 2011. vii + 352 pp. index. tbls. $185. ISBN: 978–90–04–19215–7. Includes: Spencer E. Young, “Introduction”; David Luscombe, “Crossing Philosophical Boundaries c. 1150–c. 1250”; Marcia L. Colish, “Scholastic Theology at Paris around 1200”; Chris Schabel, “Reshaping the Genre: Literary Trends in Philosophical Theology in the Fourteenth Century”; Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen, “Nominalism in Cologne: The Student Notebook of the Dominican Servatius Fanckel with an Edition of a disputatio vaccantialis held on July 14, 1480 ‘Utrum in deo uno simplicissimo sit trium personarum realis distinctio’”; Kent Emery, Jr., “Cognitive Theory and the Relation between the Scholastic and Mystical Modes of Theology: Why Denys the Carthusian Outlawed Durandus of Saint-Pourçain”; John E. Murdoch, “A Skewed View: The Achievement of Late Medieval Science and Philosophy as Seen from the Renaissance”; Michael R. McVaugh, “Medicine and Arts in Thirteenth-Century Paris”; Danielle Jacquart, “Medicine and Theology”; Kenneth Pennington, “Lex naturalis and Ius naturale”; Karl Shoemaker, “When the Devil Went to Law School: Canon Law and Theology in the Fourteenth Century”; Robert E. Lerner, “Antichrist Goes to the University: The De victoria Christi contra Antichristum of Hugo de Novocastro, OFM (1315/1319)”; and Jürgen Miethke, “The University of Heidelberg and the Jews: Founding and Financing the Needs of a New University.”

MONOGRAPHS: Alonso-Lasheras, Diego. Luis de Molina’s De Iustitia et Iure: Justice as Virtue in an Economic Context. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xii + 246 pp. index. bibl. €99. ISBN: 978–90–04–20225–2. Ardissino, Erminia. Galileo: La scrittura dell’esperienza. Studi sulle lettere. Res litteraria 7. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2010. 234 pp. index. €21. ISBN: 978–8–8467–2807–4. Armstrong, Adrian, and Sarah Kay. Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. ix + 250 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8014–4973–4. Beckwith, Sarah. Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. xvi + 228 pp. index. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8014–4978–9. Beneš, Carrie E. Urban Legends: Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250– 1350. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2011. xiv + 278 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 978–0–271–03765–3. Berger, Harry. Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. xiv + 116 pp. + 9 color pls. index. illus. $35. ISBN: 978– 0–8232–3313–7. Bertling Biaggini, Claudia. Giorgione pictor et musicus amatus — Vom Klang seiner Bilder: Eine musikalische Kompositionsästhetik in der Malerei gegen die Aporie der Norm um 1500. Studien zur Kunstgeschichte 188. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2011. 394 pp. index. illus. gloss. chron. bibl. €58. ISBN: 978–3–487–14498–6. Boeckl, Christine. Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art. Early Modern Studies 7. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2011. xiii + 234 pp. index. illus. bibl. $30. ISBN: 978–1–935503–15–6. Bolzoni, Lina. Il cuore di cristallo: Ragionamenti d’amore, poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento. Saggi 914. Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2010. 375 pp. €34. ISBN: 978–88–06–18828–3. 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