Renaissance Quarterly

BOOKS RECEIVED

APRIL–JUNE 2010

EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:

Baker-Smith, Dominic, ed. Emily Kearns and Micheline White, trans. Expositions of the Psalms. Vol. 65 of Collected Works of Erasmus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. xxv + 299 pp. index. illus. bibl. $110. ISBN: 978–0–8020–9997–2.

Beccadelli, Antonio. The Hermaphrodite. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 42. Ed. and trans. Holt Parker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xlv + 299 pp. index. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–04757–0.

Bellot, Jacques. The French Method / La Méthode française. Textes de la Renaissance 148. Série “Traités sur la langue française” 15. Ed. Susan Baddeley. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2010. 440 pp. index. bibl. €67. ISBN: 978–2–8124–0056–8.

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, and Bruce L. Venarde, eds. Bruce L. Venarde, trans. Two Women of the Great Schism: The Revelations of Constance de Rabastens by Raymond de Sabanac and Life of the Blessed Ursulina of Parma by Simone Zanacchi. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 3. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. xi + 131 pp. index. append. bibl. $13. ISBN: 978–0–77272–057–3.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Latin Eclogues. Trans. David R. Slavitt. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. x + 146 pp. $55 (cl), $25 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–8081–9562–3 (cl), 978–0–8018–9563–0 (pbk).

Borromeo, Federico. Sacred Painting; Museum. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 44. Ed. Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. and Pamela M. Jones. Trans. Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xxvi + 298 pp. + 10 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–04758–7.

Crosignani, Ginevra, Thomas M. McCoog, and Michael Questier, eds. Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England: Manuscript and Printed Sources in Translation. Catholic and Recusant Texts of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period. Studies and Texts 170. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2010. xxxiv + 432 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0–88844–170–6. de Faxolis, Florentius. Book on Music. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 43. Ed. and trans. Bonnie J. Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xxiv + 340 pp. + 2 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–04943–7.

Donà, Girolamo. Dispacci da Roma: 19 Gennaio–30 Agosto 1510. Ed. Marino Zorzi and Viola Venturini. Venice: Venezia La Malcontenta, 2009. lxxxiv + 433 pp. index. append. n.p. ISBN: 978–88–95745–21–3.

Ferrand, Jacques. De la maladie d’amour ou melancolie érotique. Textes de la Renaissance 153. Ed. Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2010. 446 pp. index. bibl. €65. ISBN: 978–2–8124–0061–2.

Ghiselin de Busbecq, Ogier. Les lettres turques. Champion Classiques, Série “Littératures” 14. Ed. Dominique Arrighi. Trans. Dominique Arrighi. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2010. xviii + 426 pp. index. append. bibl. €14. ISBN: 978–2–7453–2038–4.

González García, Juan Luis, ed. Los inventarios de Carlos V y la familia imperial. 3 vols. Madrid: Fernando Villaverde Ediciones, 2010. 3,237 pp. index. $1195. ISBN: 978–84–937083– 1–3.

Marinella, Lucrezia. Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered: A Heroic Poem. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Maria Galli Stampino. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009. xxvii + 477 pp. index. append. bibl. $90 (cl), $35 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–226–50547–3 (cl), 978–0–226– 50548–0 (pbk).

Martin, Martial, ed. Satyre ménippée. Collection “Textes et Contre-Textes” 10. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2010. 235 pp. gloss. bibl. €10. ISBN: 978–2– 86272–545–1.

Pellegrini, Letizia, ed. Il Processo di canonizzazione di Bernardino da Siena (1445–1450). Analecta Franciscana 16. Nova Series, Documenta et Studia 4. Rome: Frati Editori di Quaracchi, 2009. 756 pp. index. append. bibl. €80. ISBN: 978–88–7013–287–8.

Petrarca, Francesco. Gabbiani. Biblioteca minima 29. Ed. Francisco Rico. Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2008. illus. €5.50. ISBN: 978–88–459–2314–2.

Piacentini, Paola. Platina, la Biblioteca Vaticana e i registri di introitus ed Exitus: Da una ricerca di Giuseppe Lombardi. RR inedita, saggi 42. Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2009. xxxiv + 123 pp. index. append. bibl. €32. ISBN: 88–85913–57–1.

Sabuco de Nantes Barrera, Olivia. The True Medicine. Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 4. Ed. and trans. Gianna Pomata. Toronto: Iter Inc., 2010. xi + 267 pp. index. bibl. $24.50. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2067–2. Varchi, Benedetto. Errori del Giovio nelle Storie. Cinquecento. Testi e Studi di letteratura italiana. Testi 12. Ed. Franco Minonzio. Manziana: Vecchiarelli Editore S.r.l., 2010. 252 pp. index. append. bibl. €30. ISBN: 978–88–8247–262–7.

Voisin de la Popelinière, Henri Lancelot. Du Contre Machiavel au Contre-prince de Machiavel. Les classiques de la pensée politique 22. Ed. Brigitte Lourde. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2010. 145 pp. index. $42. ISBN: 978–2–600–01393–2.

Weinstein, Roni. Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy: Tiferet Bahurim by Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselice. Studies in Jewish History and Culture 21. Trans. Batya Stein. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xii + 450 pp. index. bibl. $180. ISBN: 978–90–04– 16757–5.

Wolfe, Michael, ed. Natalie Zemon Davis and Michael Wolfe, trans. A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet. Early Modern Studies 4. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2010. xiii + 218 pp. index. $24.95. ISBN: 978–1–931112–97–0.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE:

Armstrong, Lilian, Piero Scapecchi, and Federica Toniolo. Gli Incunaboli della Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova Catalogo e Studi. Fonti e Ricerche di Storia Ecclesiastica Padovana 33. Herder Editrice. Padua: Istituto per la storia ecclesiastica Padovana, 2008. 253 pp. + 55 color and 145 b/w pls. illus. €60. No ISBN.

Spencer, Brian. Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 7. New Edition. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 2010. x + 349 pp. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 978–184383–544–8.

Watt, Isabella M., and Thomas A. Lambert, eds. Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin. Vol. 5, 1550–1551. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 468. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2010. xxxiii + 371 pp. + 1 b/w pl. index. illus. gloss. bibl. €104.10. ISBN: 978–2–600– 01429–8.

Yamada, Akihiro. Secrets of the Printed Page in the Age of Shakespeare: Bibliographical Studies in the Plays of Beaumont, Chapman, Dekker, Fletcher, Ford, Marston, Shakespeare, Shirley, and in the Text of King James I’s The True Lawe of Free Monarchies with an Edition of Arcadia Restored, Egerton MS 1994, Folios 212–23 in the British Library. Brooklyn: AMS Press, Inc., 2010. xvii + 290 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. $137. ISBN: 978–0–404– 62346–3.

COLLECTIONS AND STUDIES: Birberick, Anne, Russell J. Ganim, and Jeff Persels, eds. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. Vol. 13: Spectacle. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2010. xiii + 235 pp. index. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 978–1–886365–28–5 (pbk).

Includes: Jeff Persels, “Introduction”; Fabien Salesse, “Consolider l’unité de la cité par le théâtre religieux: l’exemple de la Passion d’Auvergne”; Andreea Marculescu, “Medieval Laughter and Theatre: The Case of Some Sotties and Farces in the Recueil Trepperel and the Recueil Cohen”; Matthieu Bonicel, “Les Modes de financement public des performances à Avignon à la fin Moyen Age”; Kathleen M. Llewellyn, “Acting for God: Le Mystere de Judith et Holofernes”; Laura Weigert, “The Afterlife of Spectacle: Creating a Performance of The Vengeance of Our Lord through Paint”; John Nassichuk, “The Use of Italian Sources and Models in Jodelle’s Cléopâtre captive”; Pascale Barthe, “Oriens Theatralis: la France dans le miroir de La Soltane de Gabriel Bounin”; Corinne Noirot-Maguire, “Conjurer le mal: Jean de la Taille et le paradoxe de la tragédie humaniste”; Ellen McClure, “Neo-Stoicism and the Spectator in Corneille’s Horace”; Bérénice Le Marchand, “Représentations du spectacle dans les contes de fées”; Enrica Zann, “Les Réécritures modernes d’Oedipe roi: entre invitation et moralisation”; and Karen L. Taylor, “The Articulation of Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Théâtre d’éducation.”

Blum, Paul Richard, ed., and Brian McNeil, trans. Philosophers of the Renaissance. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010. vii + 323 pp. index. bibl. $35.95. ISBN: 978– 0–8132–1726–0 (pbk).

Includes: Paul Richard Blum, “Introduction: Philosophy in the Renaissance”; “Lorenzo Valla (1406/7–1457): Humanism as Philosophy”; Charles Lohr, “Ramon Lull (1232–1316): The Activity of God and the Hominization of the World”; Peter Schulz, “George Gemistos Plethon (ca. 1360–1454), George of Trebizond (1396–1472), and Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): The Controversy between Platonists and Aristotelians in the Fifteenth Century”; Detlef Thiel, “Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464): Squaring the Circle: Politics, Piety, and Rationality”; Michaela Boenke, “Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): Philosophy of Private and Public Life and of Art”; Stéphane Toussaint, “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494): The Synthetic Reconcilation of All Philosophies”; Tamara Albertini, “Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499): The Aesthetic of the One in the Soul”; Jill Kraye, “Pietro Pomponazzi (1462–1525): Secular Aristotelianism in the Renaissance”; Heinrich C. Kuhn, “Niccolò Macchiavelli (1469–1527): A Good State for Bad People”; Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke and Paul Richard Blum, “Agrippa von Nettescheim (1486–1535): Philosophical Magic, Empiricism, and Skepticism”; D. C. Andersson, “Juan Luis Vives (1492/93–1540): A Pious Eclectic”; Günter Frank, “Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560): Reformer and Philosopher”; Sachiko Kusukawa, “Petrus Ramus (1515–1572): Method and Reform”; Cees Leijenhorst, “Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588): New Fundamental Principles of Nature”; Heikki Mikkeli, “Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589): The Structure and Method of Scientific Knowledge”; Reto Luzius Fetz, “Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592): Philosophy as the Search for Self-Identity”; Thomas Leinkauf, “Francesco Patrizi (1529–1597): New Philosophies of History, Poetry, and the World”; Eugenio Canone, “Giordano Bruno (1548– 1600): Clarifying the Shadows of Ideas”; Emmanuel J. Bauer, “Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Scholasticism after Humanism”; and Germana Ernst, “Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639): The Revolution of Knowledge from the Prison.”

Bonfil, Robert. Cultural Change among the Jews of Early Modern Italy. Variorum Collected Studies 945. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. x + 330 pp. index. £70. ISBN: 978–1– 4094–0016–5.

Includes: Robert Bonfil, “The Historian’s Perception of the Jews in the Italian Renaissance: Towards a Reappraisal”; “Some Reflections on the Place of Azariah de Rossi’s Meor Enayim in the Cultural Milieu of Italian Renaissance Jewry”; “Halakhah, Kabbalah and Society: Some Insights into Rabbi Menahem Azariah Da Fano’s Inner World”; “Cultura e mistica a Venezia nel Cinquecento”; “How Golden was the Age of the Renaissance in Jewish Historiography?”; “Change in the Cultural Patterns of a Jewish Society in Crisis: Italian Jewry at the Close of the Sixteenth Century”; “Preaching as Mediation Between Elite and Popular Cultures: The Case of Judah del Bene”; “Changing Mentalities of Italian Jews Between the Periods of the Renaissance and the Baroque”; “Italy — The Sad Epilogue to the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain”; “Gli ebrei d’Italia e la riforma: una questione da riconsiderare”; “Jewish Attitudes Toward History and Historical Writing in Pre-Modern Times”; “A Cultural Profile (of the Jews in Early Modern Venice)”; and “Il problema dei conversos nel XV secolo e le sue ripercussioni per la ristrutturazione dell’atteggiamento ebraico nei confronti del cristianesimo all’alba dell’epoca moderna.”

Borean, Linda, and Stefania Mason, eds. Il Collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Seicento. Venezia: Fondazione di Venezia-Marsilio, 2007. xii + 424 pp. illus. index. €35. ISBN: 978–88–317– 9392–6.

Includes: Stefania Mason, “Dallo studiolo al ‘camaron’ dei quadric. Un itinerario per dipinti, desegni, stampe e qualche curiosità nelle collezioni della Venezia barocca”; Simone Guerriero, “Il Collezionismo di sculture modern”; Linda Borean, “Il collezionismo e la fortuna dei generi”; Francesca Pitacco, “Dal secolo d’oro ai secoli d’oro. I collezionisti stranieri e loro agenti”; Laura de Fuccia, “Residenti, viaggiatori e ‘curieux’ francesi”; Isabella Cecchini, “I modi della circolazione dei dipinti”; Massimiliano Rossi, “Il modello della ‘galleria’ nella letteratura artistic veneta del XVII secolo”; William Barcham, “Il caso Cornaro”; and Linda Borean, “Il caso Bergonzi.”

Bruce, Susan, and Rebecca Steinberger, eds. The Renaissance Literature Handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks. New York: Continuum, 2009. xii + 233 pp. index. append. chron. bibl. $120.00 (cl), $29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–8264–9499–3 (cl), 978–0–8264–9500–6 (pbk).

Includes: Susan Bruce, “Introduction”; Rebecca Steinberger, “Renaissance Timeline: 1485 to 1639”; William J. Kerwin, “The Historical Context of English Renaissance Literature: From Conflict to Creativity”; Karen Britland and Lucy Munro, “Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events, Movements”; Hugh Adlington, “Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts”; Christopher R. Orchard, “Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts”; Nate Eastman, “Key Critical Concepts and Topics”; Tita French Baumlin, “Critical Responses and Approaches to British Renaissance Literature”; Joshua B. Fisher, “Changes in the Canon”: and Thomas Healy, “Mapping the Current Critical Landscape: Returning to the Renaissance.”

Chapman, Hugo, and Marzia Faietti. Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings. Accompanies exhibition at the British Museum, London and Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2010. 344 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978–1– 84822–058–4.

Includes: Hugo Chapman, “Introduction”; “The Collection of Italian Fifteenth-century Drawings in the British Museum”; and Maria Elena De Luca, “History of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi.”

Cremades, Fernando Checa, ed. Los inventarios de Carlos V y la familia imperial. 3 vols. Madrid: Fernando Villaverde Ediciones, 2010. 3237 pp. index. $1195. ISBN: 978–84–937083– 1–3.

Includes: Fernando Checa Cremades, “La época de Carlos V. Collecciones e inventarios de la Casa de Austria / The Period of Charles V. Collections and Inventories of the House of Austria”; “El emperador Carlos V: inventarios, bienes y colecciones / Emperor Charles V: Inventories, Possessions and Collections”; Miguel Ángel Zalama, “Juana I de Castilla: el inventario de los bienes artísticos de la reina / Joanna I of Castille: The Inventory of the Queen’s Artistic Property”; María José Redondo Cantera, “Los inventarios de la emperatriz Isabel de Portugal / The Inventories of Empress Isabella of Portugal”; Dagmar Eichberger, “Margarita de Austria y la documentación de Malinas / Margaret of Austria and the Documentation of her Collection in Mechelen”; Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, “Ma meilleur soeur: Leonor de Austria, reina de Portugal y de Francia / Ma meilleur soeur: Leonor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France”; Jørgen Hein, “Isabel de Austria, reina de Dinamarca / Isabella of Austria, Queen of Denmark”; Friedrich Edelmayer, “Fernando I y sus inventarios / Ferdinand I and his inventories”; Bob C. van den Boogert, “María de Hungría, mecenas de las artes / Mary of Hungary as a Patron of the Arts”; and Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, “Verdadero padre y señor: Catalina de Austria, reina de Portugal / Verdadero padre y señor: Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal.”

Cousins, A. D., and Damian Grace, eds. A Companion to Thomas More. Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 253 pp. index. bibl. $58. ISBN: 978–0–8386–4215–3.

Includes: Germain Marc’hadour, “Latin Lives of Thomas More”; Michael Ackland, “Modern Biographies of Sir Thomas More”; Alison V. Scott, “More’s Letters and ‘the Comfort of the Truth’”; A. D. Cousins. “Humanism, Female Education, and Myth: Erasmus, Vives, and More’s To Candidus”; L. E. Semler, “Virtue, Transformation, and Exemplarity in The Lyfe of Johan Picus”; Arthur F. Kinney, “Inhabiting Time: Sir Thomas More’s Historia Richardi Tertii”; Clarence H. Miller, “The Epigrams of More and Erasmus: A Literary Diptych”; Bruce Mansfield, “Erasmus and More: Exploring Vocations”; Dominic Baker-Smith, “‘Civitas philosophica’: Ideas and Community in Thomas More”; Damian Grace, “Utopia”; Alistair Fox, “The Reluctant Champion: More’s Responsio ad Lutherum and Letter to Bugenhagen”; and Seymour Baker House, “‘the field is won’: An Introduction to the Tower Works.”

de Armas, Frederick A., ed. Ovid in the Age of Cervantes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. xxii + 291 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4117–4.

Includes: Ryan D. Giles, “A Galen for Lovers: Medical Readings of Ovid in Medieval and Early Renaissance Spain”; John C. Parrack, “Mythography and the Artifice of Annotation: Sáchez de Viana’s Metamorphoses (and Ovid)”; Marina S. Brownlee, “Torquemada’s Ovidian Alternatives”; Frederick A. de Armas, “Ovid’s Mysterious Months: The Fasti from Pedro Mexía to Baltasar Gracián”; Timothy Ambrose, “Ovid, Cervantes, and the Mirror: Narcissus and the Gods Transformed”; Keith Budner, “Forging Modernity: Vulcan and the Iron Age in Cervantes, Ovid, and Vico”; William Worden, “Cervantes Transforms Ovid: The Dubious Metamorphoses in Don Quixote”; Mary E. Barnard, “The Mirror of Narcissus: Imagining the Self in Garcilaso de la Vega’s Second Eclogue”; Kerry Wilks, “Circe’s Swan: The Poet, the Patron, and the Power of Bewitchment”; Steven Wagschal, “Ovid Transformed: Cristóbal de Castillejo as Conflicted Cosmopolitan”; Pablo Restrepo-Gautier, “Ovid’s ‘Hermaphroditus’ and Intersexuality in Early Modern Spain”; Benjamin J. Nelson, “Ovidian Fame: Garcilaso de la Vega and Jorge de Montemayor as Orphic Voices in Early Modern Spain and the Contamino of the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth”; Julio Vélez-Sainz, “Eros, Vates, Imperium: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses in Mythological Court Theater (Lope de Vega’s El Amor enamorado and Calderón’s Laurel de Apolo)”; Christopher B. Weimer, “Tirso’s Counter-Ovidian Self- Fashioning: Deleitar aprovechando and the Daughters of Minyas”; and Jason A. McCloskey, “Noble Heirs to Apollo: Tracing African Genealogy through Ovidian Myth in Juan de Miramontes’s Armas antárticas.”

Demarolle, Pierre, and Marie Roig Miranda, eds. Les genres littéraires de la mémoire dans l’Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. “Europe XVI–XVII” 12. Nancy: Université Nancy II, 2008. 185 pp. append. €14. ISBN: 978–2–917030–01–1 (pbk).

Includes: Pierre Demarolle, “Avant-propos”; Cécile Huchard, “Les histoires mémorables de Simon Goulart”; Pierre Demarolle, “Jean Aubrion, Philippe de Vigneulles et les mutations du genre de la chronique”; Madeleine Lazard, “La vie quotidienne à Paris d’après le livre de raison de Nicolas Versoris”; Florence Madelpuech-Toucheron, “Dévoiler l’image du passé: l’élégie funèbre comme lieu de mémoire: Consolation, souvenir et exemplum dans l’Élégie I de Garcilaso de la Vega”; Francine Wild, “Témoin et avocat: l’auto-représentation du biographe dans quelques récits de vies du XVIIe siècle français”; Edith Bissat, “La cosmographie: un genre de la mémoire?”; Laurent Angard, “À propos des genres littéraires dans les Mémoires de Marguerite de Valois”; and Francisco Javier Escobar Borrego, “Calliope oubliée par l’action de Thalie: métadiscours poétique et théâtre humaniste. À propos de Juan de Mal Lara et de Cristóbal Mosquera de Figueroa.”

De Pol, Roberto, ed. The First Translations of Machiavelli’s Prince: From the Sixteenth to the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 133. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 329 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. €66. ISBN: 978–90–420–2962–0 (pbk).

Includes: Jacob Soll, “Introduction: Translating The Prince by Many Hands”; Roberto De Pol, “Translation and Circulation: Introduction to a Research Project”; Nella Bianchi Bensimon, “La première traduction française”; Caterina Mordeglia, “The First Latin Translation”; Alessandra Petrina, “A Florentine Prince in Queen Elizabeth’s Court”; María Begoña Arbulu Barturen, “La primera traducción española”; Francesca Terrenato, “The First Dutch Translation”; Serena Spazzarini, “The First German Translation”; Paolo Marelli, “The First Translation in Scandinavia”; and Arap El Ma’ani, “The First Arabic Translation.”

di Filippo Bareggi, Claudia, and Gianvittorio Signorotto, eds. L’Inquisizione in età moderno e il caso milanese. Academia Ambrosiana. Studia Borromaica: Saggi e documenti di storia religiosa e civile della prima età moderna 23. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2009. 552 pp. index. append. €28. ISBN: 978–88–7870–443–5. Includes: Mons. Marco Maria Navoni, “Prefazione”; S. E. Card. Dionigi Tettamanzi, “La nuova Academia Ambrosiana”; Cesare Alzati, “Ricordo di Luigi Prosdocimi”; Claudia di Filippo Bareggi and Gianvittorio Signorotto, “Introduzione”; John Tedeschi, “Inquisizione romana e intellettuali”; Adriano Prosperi, “Storia dell’Inquisizione come storia della giustizia”; José Martínez Millán, “La Inquisición española entre ‘500 y ‘600: La disputa de los estatutos de pureza de sangre”; Alain Tallon, “L’affare San Severino: un processo tra Francia, Roma e Milano”; Elena Brambilla, “Fra teologia e scienza: una svolta nei criteri del Sant’Uffizio su santità e miracoli (1680–1710)”; Andrea Errera, “Modello accusatorio e modello inquisitorio nel processo contro gli eretici: il ruolo del procuratore fiscale”; Franco Buzzi, “Esiste una giustificazione teologica dell’Inquisizione?”; Gigliola Fragnito, “La censura dei libri tra Indice e Inquisizione”; Ugo Baldini, “La censura ecclesiastica sulle scienze tra i secoli XVI e XVII: continuità o mutamento?” Miguel Gotor, “‘Sempre apprestato d’ubbidire alli comandi della Santa Inquisizione’: il gesuita Gregorio Ferrari e il culto milanese di Elisabetta Peragalli tra santità e Sant’Uffizio (1657–1658)”; Claudia di Filippo Bareggi, “Inquisizione e confessione tra ‘500 e ‘600: aspetti e problemi”; Mario Infelise, “L’immagine dell’Inquisizione tra Sarpi e libertinismo”; Gianvittorio Signorotto, “La crisi seicentesca dell’Inquisizione e il caso milanese”; Massimo Carlo Giannini, “Inquisizione romana e politica asburgica nella Milano di metà Cinquecento: i due processi ad Ascanio Marso, agente presso i cantoni elvetici”; Wietse de Boer, “Soldati in terra straniera: la fede tra Inquisizione e ragion di Stato”; Angelo Turchini, “Vicari foranei, parroci, Inquisizione a Milano: Appunti per una ricerca in fieri”; Flavio Rurale, “Ordini religiosi e Inquisizione tra Cinque e Seicento”; and Cinzia Cremonini, “La congregazione dei Crocesignati milanesi tra 1644 e 1767: Alcune considerazioni.”

Duits, Rembrandt, and François Quiviger, eds. Images of the Pagan Gods: Papers of a Conference in Memory of Jean Seznec. London: The Warburg Institute, 2009. xiv + 443 pp. index. append. illus. £50. ISBN: 978–0–85481–144–1 (pbk).

Includes: Elizabeth Sears, “Seznec, Saxl and La Survivance des dieux antiques”; Rembrandt Duits, “The Waning of the Renaissance”; François Quiviger, “Online Mythologies”; Kristen Lippincott, “The Problem with Being a Minor Deity: The Story of Eridanus”; Rembrandt Duits, “The Survival of the Pagan Sky: Illustrated Constellation Cycles in Manuscripts”; Dieter Blume, “Michael Scot, Giotto and the Construction of New Images of the Planets”; Sabrina Vervacke, “Autour des ‘dieux d’Albricus’ et de leur usage”; Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, “A Lecture with Consequences: Tracing a Trecento Commentary on the Metamorphoses”; Anne Rolet, “Les Métamorphoses d’Hermès/Mercure dans les Symbolicae Quaestiones d’Achille Bocchi (1555)”; Stéphane Rolet, “La Représentation des dieux dans les Hieroglyphica de Pierio Valeriano (1556)”; Ezio Pellizer, “L’Anthropomorphisme des dieux dans la Grèce antique”; Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, “Figures romaines de Dionysos à la fin du Ier siècle av. J.-C.”; Ruth Webb, “Living Statues: the Presence of the Gods on the Late Antique Stage”; Philippe Morel, “Le Règne de Pan de Signorelli”; Sara Mamone, “Les Nuées de l’Olympe à la scène: les dieux au service de l’Église et du prince dans le spectacle florentin de la renaissance”; Françoise Graziani, “Les Dieux en images: représenter, décrire, interpréter à la renaissance”; and Elizabeth McGrath, “Artists and Mythographic Handbooks: Some Evidence of Use and Ownership.”

Dymkowski, Christine, and Christie Carson, eds. Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi + 306 pp. index. illus. tbls. $95. ISBN: 978– 0–521–88479–2.

Includes: Christine Dymkowski and Christie Carson, “Introduction”; Andrew Gurr, “The Move Indoors”; Elaine M. McGirr, “Whig Heroics: Shakespeare, Cibber, and the Troublesome King John”; Lucy Munro, “Coriolanus and the (in)authenticities of William Poel’s Platform Stage”; Neil Carson, “‘A fresh advance in Shakespeare production’: Tyrone Guthrie in Canada”; Abigail Rokison, “Authenticity in the Twenty-First Century: Propeller and Shakespeare’s Globe”; Farah Karim-Cooper, “Performing Beauty on the Renaissance Stage”; Fiona Ritchie, “The Artistic, Cultural, and Economic Power of the Actress in the Age of Garrick”; Jan McDonald, “Women Writing Shakespeare’s Women in the Nineteenth Century: The Winter’s Tale”; Elizabeth Schafer, “‘Not our Olivia’: Lydia Lopokova and Twelfth Night”; Christine Dymkowksi, “Measure for Measure: Shakespeare’s Twentieth-Century Play”; Christopher Baugh, “Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Scenography 1770–1825”; Susan Bennett, “The Presence of Shakespeare”; Kate Flaherty and Penny Gay, “Finding Local Habitation: Shakespeare’s Dream at Play on the Stage of Contemporary Australia”; Lynette Goddard, “‘Haply for I am black’: Shifting Race and Gender Dynamics in Talawa’s Othello”; Brian Pearce, “British Directors in Post-Colonial South Africa”; and Christie Carson, “Epilogue: Shakespeare’s Audiences as Imaginative Communities.”

Eckstein, Nicholas A., and Nicholas Terpstra, eds. Sociability and its Discontents: Civil Society, Social Capital, and their Alternatives in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Early European Research 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2009. vii + 326 pp. illus. €65. ISBN: 978– 2–503–52473–3.

Includes: Nicholas Terpstra and Nicholas A. Eckstein, “Sociability and its Discontents”; Thomas Cohen, “Communal Thought, Communal Words, and Communal Rites in a Sixteenth-Century Village Rebellion”; Thomas Kuehn, “Social and Legal Capital in Vendetta: A Fifteenth-Century Florentine Feud in and out of Court”; Nerida Newbigin, “Jousting Alone: Scandal as Social Capital in Renaissance Florence”; Anne M. Scott, “Speaking Up for the Aged: Thomas Hoccleve and The Regiment of Princes”; Nicholas A. Eckstein, “Pittori, amici e vicini: The Formal and Informal Bonds of Community amongst Florentine Artists”; Hugh Hudson, “Paolo Uccello and the Confraternity of Saint Peter Martyr: Themes of Reciprocal Obligation in Life and Art”; Caroline Castiglione, “To Trust is Good, but Not to Trust Is Better: An Aristocratic Woman in Search of Social Capital in Seventeenth-Century Rome”; David Abulafia, “Signorial Power in Aragonese Southern Italy”; John A. Marino, “Solidarity in Spanish Naples: Fede Pubblica and Fede Privata Revisited”; Gregory Hanlon, “In Praise of Refeudalization: Princes and Feudataries in North-Central Italy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century”; Christopher F. Black, “The Putnam Thesis and Problems of the Early Modern Transition Period”; Mark Jurdjevic, “Voluntary Associations Reconsidered: Compagnie and Arti in Florentine Politics”; Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, “A Breakdown of Civic Community? Civic Traditions, Voluntary Associations and the Ghent Calvinist Regime (1557–84)”; Nicholas Terpstra, “‘Republics by Contract’: Civil Society in the Papal State”; and David Garrioch, “From Religious to Secular Sociability: Confraternities and Freemasonry in Eighteenth-Century Paris.”

Evans, Robert C., and Eric Sterling, eds. The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks. New York: Continuum, 2010. xiv + 268 pp. index. append. gloss. chron. bibl. $100 (cl), $29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–8264–9849–6 (cl), 978–0–8264–9850– 2 (pbk).

Includes: Eric J. Sterling, “Introduction”; Deborah Cosier Solomon, “The Seventeenth-Century Timeline”; Richard Harp, “Historical Contexts”; Brian Blackley and Lara M. Crowley, “Literary and Cultural Contexts”; Matthew Steggle, “Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts”; James Hirsh, “Case Studies in Reading Critical Texts: Four Classics of Scholarship”; Nancy Mohrlock Bunker and James S. Baumlin, “Key Critical Concepts and Topics”; Robert C. Evans, “Fourteen Ways of Looking at Literature: A Survey of Current Approaches”; Bruce Boehrer, “Changes in the Canon”; Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling, “Issues of Sexuality, Gender, and Ethnicity”; Albert C. Labriola, “Mapping the Current Critical Landscape: Seventeenth-Century English Literature”; Laura Schechter, “Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terminology”; and Julie Sutherland, “Appendix: Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning.”

Fitzpatrick, Joan, ed. Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare: Culinary Readings and Culinary Histories. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xiv + 171 pp. index. append. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6427–7.

Includes: Diane Purkiss, “Crammed with Distressful Bread? Bakers and the Poor in Early Modern England”; Timothy J. Tomasik, “Fishes, Fowl, and La Fleur de toute cuysine: Gaster and Gastronomy in Rabelais’s Quart Livre”; Elizabeth Spiller, “Recipes for Knowledge: Maker’s Knowledge Traditions, Paracelsian Recipes, and the Invention of the Cookbook, 1600–1660”; Ken Albala, “Cooking as Research Methodology: Experiments in Renaissance Cuisine”; Wendy Wall, “Distillation: Transformations in and out of the Kitchen”; Tracy Thong, “Performances of the Banquet Course in Early Modern Drama”; Joan Fitzpatrick, “‘I Must Eat my Dinner’: Shakespeare’s Foods from Apples to Walrus”; and Chris Meads, “Narrative and Dramatic Sauces: Reflections upon Creativity, Cookery, and Culinary Metaphor in Some Early Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Prologues.”

Fouligny, Mary-Nelly, and Marie Roig Miranda, eds. Mémoire et découvertes: quells paradigmes? “Europe XVI–XVII” 13. Nancy: Université Nancy II, 2009. 420 pp. €25. ISBN: 978–2–917030–02–8 (pbk).

Includes: Mary-Nelly Fouligny, “Avant-propos”; Mariana Gois Neves, “Le Voyage du nord du Brésil d’Yves d’Évreux”; Marika Galli, “Produits alimentaires nouveaux et paradigmes alimentaires anciens chez les premiers voyageurs italiens en Amérique”; Jorge Chen Sham, “L’élargissement du champ ‘découverte’ au service du projet de la conquête espagnole: l’Historia general de las Indias, de López de Gómara”; Janine Strauss, “Une relecture de textes traditionnels juifs à la lumière de découvertes ‘modernes’: les navigateurs du roi Salomon avaient-ils découvert l’Amérique?”; Wim J. A. Bots, “Joachim du Bellay et l’imprimé”; Virginie Lemonnier-Lesage, “La coutume: de l’usage immémorial à la ‘loi perpétuelle’ du roi?”; Emmanuel Marigno, “Intertexte et manuscrit: deux pratiques quévédiennes entre mémoire et découvertes”; Gilbert Fabre, “Les Morisques d’Aragon face à l’imprimerie”; Marie-Véronique Martinez, “Transmission et évolution de l’art de la guerre aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles”; Guy Achard-Bayle, “Mémoire & reconnaissance: De laudibus Provinciae une chorographie du XVIe siècle: À la (re-)découverte d’un patrimoine”; Sylvie Freyermuth, “De la mémoire en médecine, ou le passage du corps antique au corps moderne”; Jean-François P. Bonnot, “De la mémoire en médecine, ou le passage du corps antique au corps moderne”; Richard Crescenzo, “Vicissitude et mémoire chez Louis Le Roy”; Alicia Oïffer-Bomsel, “L’Europe et son devenir, selon Juan Luis Vives dans ses œuvres politiques et pacifistes”; Florence Dumora, “Le Courtisan: clef d’un projet humaniste et politique pour l’avenir”; Claire Lecointre, “Christoph Helwig: de la Grammatica Latina à la Lateinische Sprachkunst”; Marie-Hélène Maux-Piovano, “De l’usage de la ‘mémoire’ du latin pour l’apprentissage des langues romanes au XVIIe siècle: une ébauche de méthodologie”; Mary-Nelly Fouligny, “Découverte d’une nouvelle sorcière à la fin du XVIe siècle?”; Cesc Esteve I Mestre, “Découvrir, se rappeler, oublier les origines: Le paradigme historiographique dans la poétique de la Renaissance”; Charles Brucker, “Aspects de la mémoire collective dans les récits de voyage du XVIe siècle: nouvelles dimensions de la mémoire”; Pierre Demarolle, “Philippe de Vignuelles chroniqueur du XVIe siècle: nouvelles dimensions de la mémoire”; Igor Skamperle, “Le livre des merveilles naturelles et le polyhistorien J. V. Valvasor”; Martin Germ, “Academia Operosorum de Ljubljana: Glorification du passé, conservation de la mémoire, fondation de la modernité”; Concetta Cavallini, “L’Olimpe de Pierre de Brach: mémoire ou invention?”; Marian Rothstein, “La poésie française et le passé au XVIe siècle”; and Danielle Morali, “La Nouvelle Atlantide: mémoire et progrès, une utopie pour la post-modernité?”

Grell, Ole Peter, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga, eds. Centres of Medical Excellence?: Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xiii + 335 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. $114.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6699–8.

Includes: Andrew Cunningham, “The Bartholins, the Platters and Laurentius Gryllus: the peregrinatio medica in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Laurence Brockliss, “Medical Education and Centres of Excellence in Eighteenth-century Europe: Towards an Identification”; Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, “The Mobility of Medical Students from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries: The Institutional Context”; Jon Arrizabalaga, “Spanish Medical Students’ peregrinatio to Italian Universities in the Renaissance”; Mário Sérgio Farelo, “On Portugese Medical Students and Masters Travelling Abroad: An Overview from the Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment”; Catrien Santing, “Pieter van Foreest and the Acquisition and Travelling of Medical Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century”; Ole Peter Grell, “‘Like the bees, who neither suck nor generate their honey from one flower’: The Significance of the peregrinatio academica for Danish Medical Students in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries”; Cynthia Klestinec, “Medical Education in Padua: Students, Faculty and Facilities”; Toby Gelfand, “Paris: ‘certainly the best Place for learning the practical part of Anatomy and Surgery’”; Elizabeth A. Williams, “Medical Education in Eighteenth-century Montpellier”; Rina Knoeff, “Herman Boerhaave at Leiden: Communis Europae praeceptor”; Hubert Steinke, “Science, Practice and Reputation: The University of Göttingen and Its Medical Faculty in the Eighteenth Century”; and Helen Dingwall, “The Importance of Being Edinburgh: The Rise and Fall of the Edinburgh Medical School in the Eighteenth Century.”

Healy, Margaret, and Thomas Healy, eds. Renaissance Transformations: The Making of English Writing 1500–1650. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. vi + 218 pp. index. $95. ISBN: 978–0–7486–3873–4.

Includes: Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy, “Introduction”; Thomas Healy, “Playing Seriously in Renaissance Writing”; Neil Rhodes, “Framing and Tuning in Renaissance English Verse”; Jennifer Richards, “Transforming A Mirror for Magistrates”; Andrew Hadfield, “‘Not without Mustard’: Self-publicity and Polemic in Early Modern Literary London”; Alan Stewart, “The Making of Writing in Renaissance England: Re-thinking Authorship through Collaboration”; Michelle O’Callaghan, “The Duties of Societies: Literature, Friendship and Community”; Danielle Clarke, “Gender, Material Culture and the Hybridity of Renaissance Writing”; Bernhard Klein, “The Overseas Voyage in Early Modern English Writing”; Michael Schoenfeldt, “Eloquent Blood and Deliberative Bodies: The Physiology of Metaphysical Poetry”; Margaret Healy, “Protean Bodies: Literature, Alchemy, Science and English Revolutions”; William H. Sherman, “Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in The Tempest”; and Susan Wiseman, “‘A Cat On A Post’: Animal Events in Seventeenth-century Writing.”

Hollingsworth, Mary, and Carol M. Richardson, eds. The Possessions of a Cardinal: Politics, Piety, and Art, 1450–1700. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2010. xvi + 441 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 978–0–271–03468–3.

Includes: Mary Hollingsworth and Carol M. Richardson, “Introduction”; David S. Chambers, “The Renaissance Cardinalate: From Paolo Cortesi’s De cardinalatu to the Present”; Meredith J. Gill, “Guillaume d’Estouteville’s Italian Journey”; Carol M. Richardson, “Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (1439–1503), Sant’Eustachio, and the Consorteria Piccolomini”; Roberto Cobianchi, “Gabriele Rangone (d. 1486): The First Observant Franciscan Cardinal and His Chapel in Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome”; Diana Norman, “Cardinal of Naples and Cardinal in Rome: The Patronage of Oliviero Carafa”; Angelica Pediconi, “Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi de Bibbiena (1470–1520): A Palatine Cardinal”; Sheryl E. Reiss, “‘Per havere tutte le opere . . . da monsignor reverendissimo’: Artists Seeking the Favor of Cardinal Giulio de’Medici”; Mary Hollingsworth, “A Taste for Conspicuous Consumption: Cardinal Ippolito d’Este and His Wardrobe, 1555–1566”; Andrea Gáldy, “Lost in Antiquities: Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici (1543–1562)”; Pamela M. Jones, “The Court of Humility: Carlo Borromeo and the Ritual of Reform”; Suzanne B. Butters, “Contrasting Priorities: Ferdinando I de’Medici, Cardinal and Grand Duke”; Opher Mansour, “Cardinal Virtues: Odoardo Farnese in His Camerino”; Lucy C. Cutler, “Representing an Alternative Empire at the Court of Cardinal Federico Borromeo in Habsburg Milan”; Karin Wolfe, “Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1608–1671) and the Politics of Art in Baroque Rome”; Susan Russell, “John Casimir Wasa (1609–1672), Cardinal and Prince of Poland: Problems of Precedence and Primogeniture for Innocent X”; Lisa Beaven, “‘É cortesi, erudito, e disinvolto al pari di qualunque altro buon corteggiano’: Cardinal Camillo Massimo (1620–1677) at the Court of Pope Clement X”; and David R. Marshall, “A Cardinal and His Family: The Case of Cardinal Patrizi.”

Hornby, Emma, and David Maw, eds. Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell: Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 2010. index. append. illus. tbls. $95. ISBN: 978–1–84383–535–6.

Includes: Emma Hornby, “Introduction”; Sally Harper, “Traces of Lost Medieval Offices? The Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae of John of Tynemouth (fl. 1350)”; David Hiley, “The Saints Venerated in Medieval Peterborough as Reflected in the Antiphoner Cambridge, Magdalene College, F.4.10”; Emma Hornby, “Interactions between Brittany and Christ Church, Canterbury in the Tenth Century: The Linenthal leaf”; H. Diack Johnstone, “A New Source of Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Harpiscord Music by Barrett, Blow, Clarke, Croft, Purcell and Others”; Margaret Bent, “The Earliest Fifteenth- Century Transmission of English Music to the Continent”; David Maw, “‘Phantasy mania’: Quest for a National Style”; Matthias Range, “Purcell’s 1694 Te Deum and Jubilate: Its Successors, and Its Performance History”; Reinhard Strohm, “Imitative Counterpoint in Mid- Fifteenth-Century English Mass Settings”; Magnus Williamson, “Double cantus firmus Compositions in the Eton Choirbook”; Peter Wright, “Englishness in a Kyrie (Mis)attributed to Du Fay”; John Harper, “Continuity, Discontinuity, Fragments and Connections: The Organ in Church, c.1500–1640”; Simon McVeigh, “‘As the sand on the sea shore’: Women Violinists in London’s Concert Life around 1900”; Christopher Page, “The Carol in Anglo-Saxon Canterbury?”; Owen Rees, “Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and Music in an English Catholic House in 1605”; Susan Wollenberg, “Music in Oxford, 1945–1960: The Years of Change”; John Arthur Smith, “Three Anglican Church Historians on Liturgy and Psalmody in the Ancient Synagogue and the Early Church”; Bennett Zon, “Histories of British Music and the Land Without Music: National Identity and the Idea of the Hero”; and David Maw, “John Caldwell (b. 1938): Scholar, Composer, Teacher, Musician.”

Huguet-Termes, Teresa, Jon Arrizabalaga, and Harold J. Cook, eds. Health and Medicine in Hapsburg Spain: Agents, Practices, Representations. Medical History, Supplement 29. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009. 158 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $60. ISBN: 978–0–85484–128–8.

Includes: Harold J. Cook, “Introduction”; María Luz López Terrada, “Medical Pluralism in the Iberian Kingdoms: The Control of Extra-academic Practicioners in Valencia”; Mar Rey Bueno, “La Mayson pour Distiller des Eaües at El Escorial: Alchemy and Medicine at the Court of Philip II, 1556–1598”; María Tausiet, “Healing Virtue: Salvadores versus Witches in Early Modern Spain”; Teresa Huguet-Termes, “Madrid Hospitals and Welfare in the Context of the Hapsburg Empire”; Mónica Bolufer, “Medicine and the Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Spain”; and Jon Arrizabalaga, “Medical Ideals in the Sephardic Diaspora: Rodrigo de Castro’s Portrait of the Perfect Physician in Early Seventeenth-Century Hamburg.”

Hunter, Michael, ed. Printed Images in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Interpretation. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xxii + 371 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6654–7.

Includes: Michael Hunter, “Introduction”; Margaret Aston, “Symbols of Conversion: Proprieties of the Page in Reformation England”; Richard L. Williams, “Censorship and Self-censorship in Late Sixteenth-Century English Book Illustration”; Tara Hamling, “Guides to Godliness: From Print to Plaster”; Alexandra Walsham, “‘Like Fragments of a Shipwreck’: Printed Images and Religious Antiquarianism in Early Modern England”; Lori Anne Ferrell, “Page Techne: Interpreting Diagrams in Early Modern English ‘How-to’ Books”; Katherine Acheson, “Gesner, Topsell, and the Purposes of Pictures in Early Modern Natural Histories”; Simon Turner, “Hollar’s Prospects and Maps of London”; Matthew Hunter, “The Theory of the Impression According to Robert Hooke”; Malcolm Jones, “The Common Weales Canker Wormes, or the Locusts Both of Church, and States: Emblematic Identities in a Late Jacobean Print”; Alastair Bellany, “Buckingham Engraved: Politics, Print Images and the Royal Favourite in the 1620s”; Helen Pierce, “The Devil’s Bloodhound: Roger L’Estrange Caricatured”; Justin Champion, “Decoding the Leviathan: Doing the History of Ideas through Images, 1651–1714”; Ben Thomas, “Noble or Commercial? The Early History of Mezzotint in Britain”; David Alexander, “Faithorne, Loggan, Vandrebanc and White: The Engraved Portrait in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain”; Gill Saunders, “‘Paper Tapestry’ and ‘Wooden Pictures’: Printed Decoration in the Domestic Interior before 1700”; and Angela McShane and Clare Backhouse, “Top Knots and Lower Sorts: Print and Promiscuous Consumption in the 1960s.”

Janes, Dominic, and Gary Waller, eds. Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xvi + 251 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. £55. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6924–1.

Includes: Dominic Janes and Gary Waller, “Introduction: Walsingham: Landscape, Sexuality, and Cultural Memory”; Stella A. Singer, “Walsingham’s Local Genius: Norfolk’s ‘Newe Nazareth’”; Michael P. Carroll, “Pilgrimage at Walsingham on the Eve of the Reformation: Speculations on a ‘splendid diversity’ only Dimly Perceived”; Susan Signe Morrison, “Waste Space: Pilgrim Badges, Ophelia, and Walsingham Remembered”; Gary Waller, “From the Holy Family to the Sidney and Lee-Wener Families: The Protestantization of Walsingham”; Simon Coleman, “Engaging Visions? Sites and Sights in Contemporary Pilgrimage to Walsingham”; Carole Hill, “St Anne and her Walsingham Daughter”; Gary Waller, “The Virgin’s ‘pryvytes’: Walsingham and the Late Medieval Sexualization of the Virgin”; Nigel Yates, “Walsingham and Interwar Anglo-Catholicism”; Dominic Janes, “Queer Walsingham”; John Twyning, “Walsingham and the Architecture of English History”; Susan Dunn-Hensley, “Return of the Sacred Virgin: Memory, Loss, and the Restoration in Shakespeare’s Later Plays”; Bradley Brookshire, “‘Bare ruin’d quiers, where late the sweet birds sang’: Covert Speech in William Byrd’s ‘Walsingham’ Variations”; Alison A. Chapman, “‘Met I with an old bald Mare’: Lust, Misogyny, and the Early Modern Walsingham Ballads”; Barry Spurr, “The Poetics of Incarnation: T. S. Eliot’s ‘Shrine’ and Robert Lowell’s Walsingham.”

Kennedy, Dennis, and Yong Li Lan, eds. Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv + 289 pp. index. illus. tbls. $95. ISBN: 978– 0–521–51552–8.

Includes: Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan, “Introduction: Why Shakespeare?”; John Russell Brown, “Shakespeare and the Natyasastra”; Daniel Gallimore, “Speaking Shakespeare in Japanese: Voicing the Foreign”; Fei Chunfang and Sun Huizhu, “Shakespeare and the Beijing Opera: Two Cases of Appropriation”; Richard Burt, “All that Remains of Shakespeare in Indian Film”; Minami Ryuta, “Shakespeare for Japanese Popular Culture: Shojo Manga, Takarazuka and Twelfth Night”; Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto, “Shakespeare’s Villains in Japan”; Suematsu Michiko, “Import/Export: Japanizing Shakespeare”; Li Ruru, “Millennium Shashibiya: Shakespeare in the Chinese-Speaking World”; Yong Li Lan, “Shakespeare Here and Elsewhere: Ong Keng Sen’s Intercultural Shakespeare”; Shen Lin, “What use Shakespeare? China and Globalization”; John W. P. Phillips, “Shakespeare and the Question of Intercultural Performance”; and Rustom Bharucha, “Foreign Asia/Foreign Shakespeare: Dissenting Notes on New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality, and Re-Colonization.”

Kraye, Jill, and Maria Pia Donato, eds. Conflicting Duties: Science, Medicine and Religion in Rome, 1550–1750. Warburg Institute Colloquia 15. London: The Warburg Institute, 2009. xiv + 389 pp. index. append. illus. £50. ISBN: 978–0–85481–149–6 (pbk).

Includes: Maria Pia Donato, “Introduction”; Pamela O. Long, “Engineering, Patronage and the Authorship of Practice in Early Counter-Reformation Rome”; Jean-Marc Besse, “The Birth of the Modern Atlas: Rome, Lafreri, Ortelius”; Laurent Pinon, “Portrait emblématique du parfait mécène: comment Ulisse Aldrovandi remercie le cardinal Montalto”; Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, “Bernin disputé: science, art et architecture dans la Rome de 1680”; Sabina Brevaglieri, “Science, Books and Censorship in the Academy of the Lincei: Johannes Faber as Cultural Mediator”; Federica Favino, “‘Marvellous Conjuncture’? The Academy of Maurice of Savoy in Rome between Politics and the ‘New Science’”; Antonella Romano, “Mathematics and Philosophy at Trinità dei Monti: Emmanuel Maignan and his Legacy between Rome and France”; Stefania Montacutelli, “Da Galileo a Borelli e oltre: la filosofia naturale delle Scuole Pie a Roma nel Seicento”; Paula Findlen, “Living in the Shadow of Galileo: Antonio Baldigiani (1647–1711), a Jesuit Scientist in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome”; Elisa Andretta, “Anatomie du Vénérable dans la Rome de la Contre-Réforme: Les autopsies d’Ignace de Loyola et de Philippe Neri”; Antonio Clericuzio, “Chemical Medicines in Rome: Pietro Castelli and the Vitriol Debate (1616–1626)”; Maria Conforti, “The Biblioteca Lancisiana and the 1714 edition of Eustachi’s Anatomical Plates, or Ancients and Moderns Reconciled”; Maria Pia Donato, “The Mechanical Medicine of a Pious Man of Science: G. M. Lancisi’s De subitaneis mortibus (1707)”; and Lucia Dacome, “The Anatomy of the Pope.”

Labalme, Patricia H. Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Ed. Benjamin G. Kohl. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xvi + 252 pp. $134.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6861–9. Includes: Patricia H. Labalme, “Identification and Translation of a Letter of Guarino Guarini of Verona”; “The Last Will of a Venetian Patrician (1489)”; “Nobile e donna: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia”; “Women’s Roles in Early Modern Venice: An Exceptional Case”; “Venetian Women on Women: Three Early Modern Feminists”; “Personality and Politics in Venice: Pietro Aretino”; “Sodomy and Venetian Justice in the Renaissance”; “No Man but an Angel. Early Efforts to Canonize Lorenzo Giustiniani (1381–1456)”; “Religious Devotion and Civic Division in Renaissance Venice: the case of Lorenzo Giustiniani”; “Holy Patronage, Holy Promotion: The Cult of Saints in Fifteenth-Century Venice”; “Secular and Sacred Heroes: Ermolao Barbaro on Worldly Honor”; and “How to (and How Not to) get Married in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Selections from the Diaries of Marin Sanudo), with Laura Sanguineti White.”

Leahy, William, ed. Shakespeare and His Authors: Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question. New York: Continuum, 2010. ix + 179 pp. index. bibl. $130.00 (cl), $39.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–8264–3684–9 (cl), 978–0–8264–2611–6 (pbk).

Includes: William Leahy, “Introduction: The Life of the Author”; Andrew Bennett, “On not Knowing Shakespeare (and on Shakespeare not Knowing): Romanticism, the Authorship Question and English Literature”; Willy Maley, “Malfolio: Foul Papers on the Shakespeare Authorship Question”; William D. Rubinstein, “The Authorship Question: An Historian’s Perspective”; Nicholas Royle, “The Distraction of ‘Freud’: Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy”; Sean Gaston, “No Biography: Shakespeare, Author”; Graham Holderness, “Shakespearean Selves”; William Leahy, “Shakinomics; or, the Shakespeare Authorship Question and the Undermining of Traditional Authority”; Sandra G. L. Schruijer, “Fighting over Shakespeare’s Authorship: Identity, Power and Academic Debate”; William Leahy, “Interview with Mark Rylance (Former Artistic Director, Globe Theater, London)”; and “Interview with Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director, Globe Theater, London).”

Magennis, Hugh, and Mary Swan, eds. A Companion to Ælfric. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 18. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xv + 467 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $209. ISBN: 978–90– 04–17681–2.

Includes: Hugh Magennis and Mary Swan, “Introduction”; Hugh Magennis, “Ælfric Scholarship”; Joyce Hill, “Ælfric: His Life and Works”; Christopher A. Jones, “Ælfric and the Limits of ‘Benedictine Reform’”; Mechthild Gretsch, “Ælfric, Language and Winchester”; Malcolm R. Godden, “Ælfric and the Alfredian Precedents”; Catherine Cubitt, “Ælfric’s Lay Patrons”; Thomas N. Hall, “Ælfric as Pedagogue”; Robert K. Upchurch, “Catechetic Homiletics: Ælfric’s Preaching and Teaching During Lent”; Mary Swan, “Identity and Ideology in Ælfric’s Prefaces”; Clare A. Lees, “In Ælfric’s Words: Converson, Vigilance and the Nation in Ælfric’s Life of Gregory the Great”; Gabriella Corona, “Ælfric’s Schemes and Tropes: Amplificatio and the Portrayal of Persecutors”; Kathleen Davis, “Boredom, Brevity and Last Things: Ælfric’s Style and the Politics of Time”; Jonathan Wilcox, “The Use of Ælfric’s Homilies: MSS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 85 and 86 in the Field”; Aaron J. Kleist, “Assembling Ælfric: Reconstructing the Rationale behind Eleventh- and Twelfth- Century Compilations”; and Elaine Treharne, “Making their Presence Felt: Readers of Ælfric, c. 1050–1350.”

Marr, Alexander, ed. The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2009. xv + 224 pp. index. append. illus. map. £40. ISBN: 978–1900289–96–2.

Includes: Alexander Marr, “Introduction”; Isabelle Pantin, “Oronce Fine’s Role as Royal Lecturer”; Angela Axworthy, “The Epistemological Foundations of the Propaedeutic Status of Mathematics according to the Epistolary and Prefatory Writings of Oronce Fine”; Pascal Brioist, “Oronce Fine’s Practical Geometry”; Sven Dupré, “Printing Practical Mathematics: Oronce Fine’s De speculo ustorio between Paper and Craft”; Catherine Eagleton, “Oronce Fine’s Sundials: the Sources and Influences of De solaribus horologiis”; Jean-Marc Besse, “Cosmography and Geography in the Sixteenth Century, the Position of Oronce Fine between Mathematics and History”; Adam Mosley, “Early Modern Cosmography: Fine’s Sphaera mundi in Content and Context”; Jean-Jacques Brioist, “Oronce Fine and Cartographical Methods”; Henrique Leitão, “Pedro Nunes against Oronce Fine: Content and Context of a Refutation”; Giovanna Cifoletti, “Oronce Fine’s Legacy in the French Algebraic Tradition: Peletier, Ramus and Gosselin”; Anthony Turner, “Dropped Out of Sight: Oronce Fine and the Water-clock in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; and Stephen Clucas, “Epilogue.”

Matthews-Grieco, Sara F., ed. Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xix + 281 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6214–3.

Includes: Guido Ruggiero, “Introduction: Hunting for Birds in the Italian Renaissance”; Sara F. Matthews-Grieco, “Satyrs and Sausages: Erotic Strategies and the Print Market in Cinquecento Italy”; Guido A. Guerzoni, “The Erotic Fantasies of a Model Clerk: Amateur Pornography at the Beginning of the Cinquecento”; Allen J. Grieco, “From Roosters to Cocks: Italian Fowl and Sexuality”; Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, “‘The Spirit is Ready, but the Flesh is Tired’: Erotic Objects and Marriage in Early Modern Italy”; Cecilia Cristellon, “Public Display of Affection: The Making of Marriage in the Venetian Courts before the Council of Trent (1420–1545)”; Molly Bourne, “Mail Humour and Male Sociability: Sexual Innuendo in the Epistolary Domain of Francesco II Gonzaga”; Flora Dennis, “Unlocking the Gates of Chastity: Music and the Erotic in the Domestic Sphere in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy”; and Tessa Storey, “Courtesan Culture: Manhood, Honor and Sociability.”

McClelland, John, and Brian Merrilees, eds. Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe / Le Sport dans la Civilisation de l’Europe Pré-Moderne. Essays and Studies 20. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009. 436 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $37. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2052–8.

Includes: John McClelland, “ Introduction: ‘Sport’ in Early Modern Europe”; Alessandra Rizzi, “Regulated Play at the End of the Middle Ages: The Work of Mendicant Preachers in Communal Italy”; Uriel Simri, “The Contribution of the Responsum of Rabbi Moses Provençalo to the History of the Game of Tennis”; Hugh M. Lee, “The Influence of Mercurialis’ De arte gymnastica on the Study of Greek Athletics”; Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, “Régime d’exercices et sexualité des citoyens ordinaires selon Platina (XVe s.)”; Greg Malszecki, “The Armoured Body: Knightly Training and Techniques for Combative Sports in the High Middle Ages”; Marie Madeleine Fontaine, “L’athlète et l’homme moyen: le nouveau regard de la Renaissance”; Joachim Rühl, “A Treasure-Trove: One of the Four Originals of the Tournament Regulations of Heilbronn 1485”; Michael Flannery, Brian Merrilees, and John McClelland, “The Rules for Playing Pall-Mall (c. 1655)”; Daniela Boccassini, “Chasse et fauconnerie du Moyen Age à la Renaissance: les recueils cynégétiques français”; Bert Hall, “Firearms and Sports: Hunting”; Serge Vaucelle, “ L’éducation corporelle des aristocrates français à l’âge classique: la place des traits didactiques”; Dylan Reid, “Enfants de la ville: Bourgeois Horsemanship and Combat Games in French Royal Entries”; Paul F. Grendler, “Fencing, Playing Ball, and Dancing in Italian Renaissance Universities”; Georges Vigarello, “Jeux populaires: les paris et les prix dans la France classique”; Kazuhiko Kusudo, “P. H. Mair (1515–1579): A Sports Chronicler in Germany”; Jean-Michel Mehl, “La soule médiévale: essai d’interprétation”; Heiner Gillmeister, “What Literary Works Can Tell Us about Sports and Games: A Fifteenth-Century Example”; Sandra Schmidt, “Trois dialogues de l’exercice de sauter et voltiger en l’air: Strategies of Ennoblement of a Bodily Practice in the Sixteenth Century”; Yvan Morin, “Conceptions du mouvement, de l’exercice, du jeu et du sport: de Marsile Ficin jusqu’au vingtième siècle”; and Arnd Krüger, “Swimming and the Emergence of Modern Spirit.”

Müller, Gernot Michael, ed. Humanismus und Renaissance in Augsburg: Kulturgeschichte einer Stadt zwischen Spätmittelalter und Dreißigjährigem Krieg. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. viii + 541 pp. index. append. illus. $168. ISBN: 978–3–11–023124–3.

Includes: Caspar Hirschi, “Höflinge der Bürgerschaft — Bürger des Hofes: Zur Beziehung von Humanismus und städtischer Gesellschaft”; Klaus Unterburger, “Zwischen Irenik und Kontroverstheologie: Der Einfluss des Humanismus auf die Ausbildung konfessioneller Wissenskulturen”; Wolfgang E. J. Weber, “Humanismus und reichsstädtische Politik”; Mark Häberlein, “Botanisches Wissen, ökonomischer Nutzen und sozialer Aufstieg im 16. Jahrhundert: Der Augsburger Arzt und Orientreisende Leonhard Rauwolf”; Wilhelm Kühlmann, “Der Kaiser und die Poeten: Augsburger Reichstage als literarisches Forum”; Tomasz Ososiński, “Die Kontakte des polnischen Humanisten Johann Dantiscus mit der Firma Welser (1527– 1537)”; Florian Schaffenrath, “Der Humanist Lucas Geizkofler zwischen Innsbruck und Augsburg: Seine Trauerrede auf Matthias Schenck”; Silvia Serena Tschopp, “Protestantisches Schultheater und reichsstädtische Politik: Die Dramen des Sixt Birck”; Bernhard Jahn, “Schultheater jenseits von St. Anna: Versuch einer Annäherung an die Theaterspielpraxis der deutschen Schulen in Augsburg am Beispiel von Sebastian Wilds Dramensammlung”; Gernot Michael Müller, “‘Quod non sit honor Augustensibus si dicantur a Teucris ducere originem’: Humanistische Aspekte in der Cronographia Augustensium des Sigismund Meisterlin”; Martin Ott, “Konrad Peutinger und die Inschriften des römischen Augsburg: Die ‘Romanae vetustatis Fragmenta’ von 1505 im Kontext des gelehrten Wissens nördlich und südlich der Alpen”; Markus Völkel, “Von Augsburg nach Paris, von Oporin zu Cramoisy: Die reichsstädtische Byzantinistik und die europäische Respublica litteraria in der Frühen Neuzeit”; Stefan W. Römmelt, “‘Als ob ich den ganzen Martial kommentiert hätte’: Matthäus Rader SJ, ein problematischer Schulautor und die jesuitische Zensurpraxis in Augsburg um 1600”; Wolfgang Augustyn, “Historisches Interesse und Chronistik in St. Ulrich und Afra in Augsburg im Umfeld von monastischer Reform und städtischem Humanismus. Wilhelm Wittwer und sein ‘Catalogus abbatum’”; Harald Müller, “Der Beitrag der Mönche zum Humanismus im spätmittelalterlichen Augsburg: Sigismund Meisterlin und Veit Bild im Vergleich”; Magnus Ulrich Ferber, “‘Cives vestros sine controversia habeo pro Germaniae cultissimis’: Zum Verhältnis von Späthumanismus und Konfessionalisierung am Beispiel der bikonfessionellen Reichsstadt Augsburg”; Alois Schmid, “Die Korrespondenz zwischen P. Matthäus Rader SJ und Marcus Welser”; Christoph Bellot, “‘Auf welsche art, der zeit gar new erfunden’: Zur Augsburger Fuggerkapelle”; and Brigitte Sölch, “Klöster und ihre Nachbarn — Konkurrenz im Blick? Neubauprojekte und Kapellenausstattungen des 16. Jahrhunderts in Augsburg am Beispiel der Dominikanerkirche St. Magdalena.”

Nubola, Cecilia, and Andreas Würgler, eds. Ballare col nemico? Reazioni all’espansione francese in Europa tra entusiasmo e resistenza (1792–1815) / Mit dem Feind tanzen? Reaktionen auf die französische Expansion in Europa zwischen Begeisterung und Protest (1792–1815). Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienish-deutschen Historischen Instituts in Trient 23. Berlin: Duncker & Homblot, 2010. 306 pp. €23. ISBN: 978–88–15–13746–3.

Includes: Andreas Würgler, “Introduction: Dancing with the Enemy?”; Laura Gagliardi, “Il volto della Rivoluzione: Milano di fronte all’invasione francese (1796–1799)”; Vittorio Criscuolo, “La società Milanese nell’età rivoluzionaria: resistenze e mutamenti”; Gian Paolo Romagnani, “‘È morta la Repubblica a l’uguaglianza è gita’. Voci dal Piemonte in rivoluzione”; Rahul Markovits, “‘S’approprier les moeurs, les habitudes, et la langue françaises.’ La theater et l’impérialisme culturel français à Mayence et Turin (1798–1814)”; Marina Formica, “Suppliche, proclaim, reclaim: i patrioti romani negli anni della Rivoluzione”; Danièle Tosato-Rigo, “I democratic svizzeri e la ‘Grande Nation’: Petizioni e comunicazione politica all vigilia della Rivoluzione del 1798”; Andreas Würgler, “Wer hat Angst vor wem? Kulturelle, soziale und nationale Muster in den Beziehungen zwischen Stadtbevölkerungen und Besatzungsarmeen (Schweiz und Deutschland 1792–1815)”; Alexander Schlaak, “Zwischen Konservatismus und Revolution. Die Bürgerprozesse in der Reichsstadt Esslingen am Neckar gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts”; Cecilia Nubola, “Gli eserciti francesi a Trento (1796–1801). Cronache e diari”; Martin P. Schennach, “Beschwerden als Legitimationen. Zur kommunikativen Funktion von Gravamina während des Tiroler Aufstandes von 1809”; Markian Prokopovych, “Spectacles of 1809: Napoleonic, Russian, and Austrian Troops in Lemberg”; Jorge Martine Ribeiro, “‘Mes nuits avec l’ennemi.’ L’hébergement des troupes et l’occupation française de la ville de Porto de mars à mai 1809”; Ulrik Langen, “The Toulon Ball in the Neutral City of Copenhagen 1794. The Story of a Cancellation”; and Thomas Poell, “The French Occupation and the Transformation of the Dutch Public Sphere (1795–1813).

Rankin, Mark, Christopher Highley, and John N. King, eds. Henry VIII and His Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 286 pp. index. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0–521–51464–4.

Includes: Mark Rankin, Christopher Highley, and John N. King, “Introduction”; Peter Happé, “Henry VIII in the Interludes”; John N. King, “Henry VIII as David: The King’s Image and Reformation Politics”; Dale Hoak, “The Legacy of Henry VIII”; Alec Ryrie, “The Slow Death of a Tyrant: Learning to Live without Henry VIII, 1547–1563”; Mark Rankin, “The Literary Afterlife of Henry VIII, 1558–1625”; Ronald Paulson, “The Henry VIII Story in the Eighteenth Century: Words and Images”; Tatiana C. String, “Projecting Masculinity: Henry VIII’s Codpiece”; Christopher Highley, “The Remains of Henry VIII”; Matthew Spring, “Henry VIII: His Musical Contribution and Posthumous Reputation”; Tom Betteridge, “Henry VIII and Popular Culture”; Andrew Fleck, “‘Conveyance of history’: Narrative, Chronicle, History, and the Elizabethan Memory of the Henrician Golden Age”; and Peter Marshall, “Henry VIII and the Modern Historians: The Making of a Twentieth-Century Reputation.”

Rollo-Koster, Joëlle, and Thomas M. Izbicki, eds. A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417). Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 17. Leiden: Brill, 2009. viii + 468 pp. index. illus. bibl. $225. ISBN: 978–90–04–16277–8.

Includes: Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Thomas M. Izbicki, “Introduction: The Great Schism and the Scholarly Record”; Joëlle Rollo-Koster, “Civil Violence and The Initiation of the Schism”; Stefan Weiss, “Luxury and Extravagance at the Papal Court in Avignon and the Outbreak of the Great Western Schism”; Philip Daileader, “Local Experiences of the Great Western Schism”; Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, “The Conceptualization and Imagery of the Great Schism”; Michael Hanly, “Witness to the Schism: The Writings of Honorat Bovet”; Michael A. Ryan, “Byzantium, Islam, and the Great Western Schism”; Cathleen A. Fleck, “Seeking Legitimacy: Art and Manuscripts for the Popes in Avignon from 1378 to 1417”; Christopher M. Bellitto, “The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism”; David Zachariah Flanagin, “Extra ecclesiam salus non est—sed quae ecclesia?: Ecclesiology and Authority in the Later Middle Ages”; Thomas M. Izbicki, “The Authority of Peter and Paul: The Use of Biblical Authority during the Great Schism”; Philip H. Stump, “The Council of Constance (1414–18) and the End of the Schism”; and Thomas M. Izbiciki, “Conclusion: The Shadow of the Schism.”

Shakespeare Studies. Vol 47. Tokyo: The Shakespeare Society of Japan, 2009. 59 pp. illus. ¥8000. ISSN: 0582–9402.

Includes: François Laroque, “Italy versus Africa: Shakespeare’s Topographies of Desires in Othello, Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest”; and Edward Jack, “Literary Cinema: North by Northwest and Hamlet.”

Spear, Richard E., and Philip Sohm. Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth- Century Italian Painters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xi + 384 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $85. ISBN: 978–0–300–15456–6.

Includes: Richard E. Spear, “Preface”; Philip Sohm, “Introduction”; Richard E. Spear, “Rome: Setting the Stage”; Christopher R. Marshall, “Naples”; Raffaella Morselli, “Bologna”; Elena Fumagalli, “Florence”; Philip Sohm, “Venice”; Renata Ago, “Five Industrious Cities”; and Richard A. Goldthwaite, “The Painting Industry in Early Modern Italy.”

Vega, María José, and Lara Vilà, eds. La teoría de la épica en el siglo XVI: España, Francia, Italia y Portugal. Biblioteca Giambattista Vico 20. Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2010. 352 pp. index. append. bibl. €49. ISBN: 978–84–96915–57–2 (pbk).

Includes: Lara Vilà, “Épica y poder en el Renacimiento. Virgilio, la alegoría histórica y la alegoría política”; Cesc Esteve, “Una teoría incompleta: la idea de la poesía épica en las artes poéticas italianas del siglo XVI”; María José Vega, “Idea de la épica en la España del Quinientos”; Hélio J. S. Alves, “Teoría de la épica en el Renacimiento portugués”; Bruno Méniel, “La teoría renacentista de la epopeya en Francia”; Giovanni Caravaggi, “Descubrimientos y conquistas en la épica: aspectos del debate teórico”; Daniel Javitch, “El descrédito y la atracción del romanzo caballeresco en la teoría (y en la práctica) épica italiana del siglo XVI”; and Donatella Gagliardi, “Entre fábula, épica e historia. Definiciones del género caballeresco en la España del siglo XVI.”

Viallon, Marie ed. Paolo Sarpi: Politique et religion en Europe. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2010. 478 pp. index. illus. bibl. €59. ISBN: 978–2–8124–0124–4.

Includes: Marie Viallon, “Introduction”; Corrado Vivanti, “I due governi del mondo negli scritti di Sarpi”; Corrado Pin, “Paolo Sarpi senza maschera: l’avvio della lotta politica dopo l’Interdetto del 1606”; Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, “Romanité et universalité de la communauté ecclésiale. Le dèbat catholique sur les caractères de la véritable Église au temps de Paolo Sarpi”; Stefano Andretta, “Sarpi e Roma”; Filippo De Vivo, “Francia e Inghilterra di fronte all’Interdetto di Venezia”; Didier Foucault, “Sarpi, l’interdit de Venise et la France d’après la correspondance de l’ambassadeur Canaye de Fresne”; Marie Viallon and Bernard Dompnier, “Le Traité de la matière bénéficiale: le rapport à la France”; Eleonora Belligni, “Marcantonio De Dominis, Paolo Sarpi, Roberto Bellarmino e il problema dell’autorità dopo il concilio tridentino”; Romain Descendre, “Un’altra sorte di guerra: Paolo Sarpi penseur de la guerre, après l’Interdit”; Géraud Poumarède, “L’Europe de Paolo Sarpi”; Mario Infelise, “Che di lui non si parli. Inquisizione e memoria di Sarpi a metà ‘600”; Paul van Heck, “La fortuna di Paolo Sarpi in Olanda [suivi de] Appendice groziana”; and Marie Viallon, “Conclusion: la fin du mythe.”

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Alazard, Florence. Le lamento dans l’Italie de la Renaissance: “Pleure, belle Italie, jardin du monde.” Collection “Art & Société.” Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 266 pp. + 21 b/w pls. index. bibl. €19. ISBN: 978–2–7535–1024–1.

Aldred, Honor J. The Comic Genius of Clément Marot: The Function of Humor in his Poetry. Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. ix + 289 pp. index. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 978–0–7734– 3855–2.

Almási, Gábor. The Uses of Humanism: Johannes Sambucus (1531–1584), Andreas Dudith (1533–1589), and the Republic of Letters in East Central Europe. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 185. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xviii + 387 pp. index. illus. bibl. $147. ISBN: 978–90–04– 18185–4.

Areford, David S. The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xvii + 312 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6762–9. Barolsky, Paul. A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2010. xvi + 147 pp. index. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–271–03657–5.

Ben-Tov, Asaph. Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity: Melanchthonian Scholarship Between Universal History and Pedagogy. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 183. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xi + 235 pp. index. bibl. $147. ISBN: 978–90–04–17965–3.

Bernard, G. W. Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 256 pp. index. append. illus. $30. ISBN: 978–0–300–16245–5.

Bideaux, Michel. Martin en sa gloire: Un livre d’ânes. Études et Essais sur la Renaissance 84. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2010. 564 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €79. ISBN: 978–2– 8124–0069–8.

Blum, Paul Richard. Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. ix + 211 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–0781–6.

Brown, Alison M. The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xviii + 140 pp. index. append. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978–0–674–05032–7.

Bulgarelli, Mario. Leon Battista Alberti, 1404–1472: Architettura e storia. Milan: Electa, 2008. 234 pp. index. illus. €95. ISBN: 978–8–8370–4064–2.

Carrión, María Mercedes. Subject Stages: Marriage, Theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain. University of Toronto Romance Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. xii + 254 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4108–2.

Chiari, Sophie. L’image du labyrinthe à la Renaissance: Détours et arabesques au temps de Shakespeare. Bibliothèque Littéraire de la Renaissance 79. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2010. 679 pp. index. illus. bibl. €120. ISBN: 978–2–7453–1963–0.

Costantini, Vera. Il sultano e l’isola contesa Cipro tra eredità veneziana e potere ottomano. Turin: UTET, 2009. xi + 239 pp. index. illus. bibl. €23. ISBN: 978–8–8020–8097–0.

Cranston, Jodi. The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian’s Later Paintings. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. xi + 147 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $70. ISBN: 978–0–271–03529–1.

Crassons, Kate. The Claims of Poverty: Literature, Culture, and Ideology in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. xi + 389 pp. index. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0–268–02302–7. Cunningham, Andrew. The Anatomist Anatomis’d: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xxiv + 443 pp. index. illus. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6338–6.

Curd, Mary Bryan H. Flemish and Dutch Artists in Early Modern England: Collaboration and Competition, 1460–1680. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xx + 236 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 78–0–7546– 6712–4.

Curth, Louise Hill. The Care of Brute Beasts: A Social and Cultural Study of Veterinary Medicine in Early Modern England. History of Science and Medicine Library 14. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xi + 177 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $117. ISBN: 978–90–04–17995–0.

Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh. Il pulpito toscano tra ‘300 e ‘500. Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato, 202 pp. index. illus. bibl. €60. ISBN: 978–88–240–1152–5.

de Cavi, Sabina. Architecture and Royal Presence: Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592–1627). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. xxv + 505 pp. + 20 color pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $89.99. ISBN: 978–1–4438–0180–1.

de Vries, Joyce. Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances: Gender, Art and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xviii + 303 pp. index. illus. bibl. £65. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6751–3.

Falocco, Joe. Reimagining Shakespeare’s Playhouse: Early Modern Staging Conventions in the Twentieth Century. Rochester: D. S. Brewer, 2010. viii + 208 pp. index. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–1–84384–241–5.

Frymire, John M. The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 147. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xiii + 641 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. $191. ISBN: 978–90–04–18036–9.

Gelder, Maartje van. Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice. Library of Economic History 1. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xvii + 241 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $147. ISBN: 978–90–04–17543–3.

Gerth, Julia. Wirklichkeit und Wahrnehmung: Hans Memlings Turiner Passion und die Bildgruppe der Passionspanoramen. Neue Frankfurter Forschungen zur Kunst. Herausgegeben vom Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Johann Wolfgang Goethe–Universität, Frankfurt am Main 8. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2010. 284 pp. illus. €49. ISBN: 978–3–7861–2617–1.

Ghermani, Naïma. Le prince et son portrait: Incarner le pouvoir dans l’Allemagne du XVIe siècle. Collection “Histoire.” Rennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009. 349 pp. + 32 color pls. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. €22. ISBN: 978–2–7535–0845–3. Giannetti, Laura. Lelia’s Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xi + 333 pp. index. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978– 0–8020–9951–8.

Giles, Ryan D. The Laughter of the Saints: Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 197 pp. + 12 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978–0–8020–9952–5.

Goodblatt, Chanita R. The Christian Hebraism of John Donne: Written with the Fingers of Man’s Hand. Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2010. xii + 244 pp. index. append. bibl. $58. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0431–9.

Hammons, Pamela S. Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xiii + 223 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6899–2.

Hannay, Margaret. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xxxiv + 363 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6053–8.

Hochschild, Joshua P. The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. xx + 248 pp. index. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978– 0–268–03091–9.

Houston, Jason. Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. x + 228 pp. index. illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4051–1.

Howard, Lloyd H. Virgil the Blind Guide: Marking the Way through the Divine Comedy. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. xiv + 250 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0– 7735–3655–5.

Hufnagel, Henning S. Ein Stück von jeder Wissenschaft: Gattungshybridisierung, Argumentation und Erkenntnis in Giordano Brunos italienischen Dialogen. Text und Kontext 31. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 320 pp. bibl. €48. ISBN: 978–3–515–09605–8.

Kafescioğlu, Çiğdem. Constantinopolis / Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2010. xxxii + 294 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $100. ISBN: 978–0–271–02776–0.

Kalatzi, Maria P. Hermonymos: A Study in Scribal, Literary and Teaching Activities in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries. Athens: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, 2009. 382 pp. + 18 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. €23.11. ISBN: 978–960–250–420–8.

Kane, Brendan. The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541–1641. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xv + 302 pp. index. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0–521–89864–5. Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Arcimboldo: Visual Jokes, Natural History, Still-Life Painting. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. xv + 312 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978–0–226–42686–0.

Klinck, Dennis R. Conscience, Equity and the Court of Chancery in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xii + 315 pp. index. bibl. $114.95. ISBN: 978–0– 7546–6774–2.

Lane, Kris. Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xviii + 280 pp. + 16 color pls. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0–300–16131–1.

Lawrance, Jeremy. Spanish Conquest, Protestant Prejudice: Las Casas and the Black Legend. Monographs in Post-Conflict Cultures. Nottingham: Critical, Cultural, and Communications Press, 2009. 62 pp. illus. bibl. $7.50. ISBN: 978–1–6027–020–7.

Leclerc Lafage, Valérie. Montpellier au temps des troubles de Religion: Pratiques testamentaires et confessionnalisation (1554–1622). Vie des Huguenots 52. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2010. 512 pp. index. append. tbls. map. bibl. €122.88. ISBN: 978–2–7453– 1877–0.

Lund, Mary Ann. Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii + 223 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0–521–19050–3.

Maas, Korey D. The Reformation and Robert Barnes: History, Theology and Polemic in Early Modern England. Studies in Modern British Religious History 23. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 2010. xii + 250 pp. index. bibl. $115. ISBN: 978–1–84383–534–9.

Mazaroff, Stanley. Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson: Collector and Connoisseur. Published in association with The Walters Art Museum. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xv + 212 pp. + 16 color pls. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9512–8.

Melion, Walter. The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print 1550–1625. Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts 1. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2009. ix + 431 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978–0–916–10160–2.

Mengozzi, Stefano. The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory: Guido of Arezzo between Myth and History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xviii + 286 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0–521–88415–0.

Missere Fontana, Federica. Testimoni parlanti: Le monete antiche a Roma tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Monete 4. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2009. 540 pp. index. illus. bibl. €28. ISBN: 987– 88–7140–425–7. Modigliani, Anna. Disegni sulla città nel primo rinascimento romano: Paolo II. RR inedita, saggi 40. Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2009. viii + 139 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. €20. ISBN: 88–85913–51–2.

Mullan, David George. Narratives of the Religious Self in Early-Modern Scotland. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xv + 434 pp. index. chron. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6832–9.

Nagel, Alexander, and Christopher S. Wood. Anachronic Renaissance. New York: Zone Books, 2010. 455 pp. index. illus. $39.95. ISBN: 978–1–935408–02–4.

Nagel, Ivan. Gemälde und Drama: Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2009. 350 pp. index. illus. €48.80. ISBN: 978–3–518–42126–0.

Occhipinti, Carmelo. Primaticcio e l’arte di gettare le statue di bronzo: Il mito dell “seconda Roma” nella Francia del XVI secolo. Rome: UniversItalia, 2010. 252 pp. append. illus. bibl. €21. ISBN: 978–88–6507–041–3.

Patrouch, Joseph. Queen’s Apprentice: Archduchess Elizabeth, Empress María, the Habsburgs, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1554–1569. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 148. Leiden: Brill, 2010. x + 455 pp. index. bibl. $147. ISBN: 978–90–04–18030–7.

Pettegree, Andrew. The Book in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xvi + 421 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0–300–11009–8.

Picciotto, Joanna. Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. ix + 863 pp. index. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–04906–2.

Poirier, Guy. Henri III de France en mascarades imaginaires: Mœurs, humeurs et comportements d’un roi de la Renaissance. Quebec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010. xi + 217 pp. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 978–2–7637–8924–8.

Pugliatti, Paola. Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, x + 249 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5927–3.

Ramos, Gabriela. Death and Conversation in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532–1670. History, Languages and Cultures of the Spanish and Portugese Worlds. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. xi + 356 pp. index. append. tbls. map. bibl. $39. ISBN: 978–0–268–04028–4.

Raymond, Joad. Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xviii + 465 pp. index. illus. $55. ISBN: 978–0–19–956050–9.

Recio Morales, Óscar. Ireland and the Spanish Empire, 1600–1825. International Studies in Irish History 3. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. xxii + 344 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $74.50. ISBN: 978–1–84682–183–7. Richard, Carl J. Why We’re All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2010. 352 pp. append. illus. map. $26.95. ISBN: 978–0–7425–6778–8.

Roeck, Bernd. Ketzer, Künstler und Dämonen: Die Welten des Goldschmieds David Altenstetter. Eine Geschichte aus der Renaissance. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2010. 288 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. €24.90. ISBN: 978–3–406–59171–6.

Rokison, Abigal. Shakespearean Verse Speaking: Text and Theatre Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv + 234 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0– 521–76434–6.

Rouget, François. Ronsard et le livre: Etude de critique génétique et d’histoire littéraire. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 95. Première partie: Lectures et Textes Manuscrits. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2010. 288 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €49.65. ISBN: 978–2–600–01400– 7.

Rowland, Richard. Thomas Heywood’s Theatre, 1599–1639: Locations, Translations, and Conflict. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xiii + 379 pp. index. illus. $124.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6925–8.

Ruderman, David B. Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xiv + 326 pp. + 5 b/w pls. index. append. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978–0– 691–14464–1.

Sarasohn, Lisa T. The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 128th series, 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xi + 251 pp. index. $75. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9443–5.

Selwood, Jacob. Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xi + 214 pp. index. map. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6375–1.

Tateo, Francesco. Modernità dell’Umanesimo. Nuovi Paradigmi. Collezione di Studi e Testi oltre i confini 1. Salerno: Edisud Salerno, 2010. 174 pp. index. €18. ISBN: 978–88–95154–84–8.

Terpstra, Nicholas. Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xiii + 244 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978– 0–8018–9499–2.

Tromly, Fred B. Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare: The Debt Never Promised. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. xv + 360 pp. index. append. illus. $65. ISBN: 978–0–8020– 9961–7. Unger, Daniel M. Guercino’s Paintings and His Patrons’ Politics in Early Modern Italy. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xii + 183 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. bibl. £55. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6909–8.

Vuillemier Laurens, Florence, and Pierre Laurens. L’Âge de l’inscription: La rhétorique du monument en Europe du XVe au XVIIe siècle. Le Cabinet des Images 2. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. 302 pp. + 3 color pls. index. append. illus. tbls. €47. ISBN: 978–2–251–44386–7.

Wells, Stanley. Shakespeare, Sex, & Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xi + 282 pp. + 8 b/w pls. index. illus. $27.95. ISBN: 978–0–19–957859–7.

Werrett, Simon. Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. x + 359 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–226–89377–8.

Woods, Marjorie Curry. Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Text and Context. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010. xlii + 367 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $59.95. ISBN: 978–0–8142–1109–0.

Yoran, Hanan. Between Utopia and Dystopia: Erasmus, Thomas More, and the Humanist Republic of Letters. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010. xii + 251 pp. index. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978– 0–7391–3647–8.

Zak, Gur. Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. x + 179 pp. index. bibl. $80. ISBN: 978–0–521–11467–7.