Renaissance Quarterly Books Received January–March 2015 (68.1)

Al-Jawzi, Ibn. Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: Volume 2. Ed. and trans. Michael Cooperson. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2015. viii + 584 pp. $40. ISBN: 978-0-8147-3894-8.

Ardito, Alissa M. Machiavelli and the Modern State: The Prince, the Discourses on Livy, and the Extended Territorial Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 328 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-06103-3.

Arnade, Peter, and Walter Prevenier. Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xii + 244 pp. $26.95. ISBN: 978- 0-8014-7991-5.

Avcıoğlu, Nebahat, and Allison Sherman, eds. Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xxxiv + 286 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4365-6.

Baldi, Davide. Il greco a Firenze e Pier Vettori (1499–1585). Hellencia: Testi e strumenti di letteratura greca antica, medievale e umanistica 53. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2014. vi +186 pp. €18. ISBN: 978-88-6274-578-9.

Balsamo, Jean. l’amorevolezza verso le cose Italiche: Le livre Italien à Paris au XVIe siècle. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 536. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. 282 pp. $39.60. ISBN: 978-2- 600-01825-8.

Barolsky, Paul. Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xviii + 250 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-300-19669-6.

Barton, Thomas W. Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon. Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755 1. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xx + 292 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-06472-7.

Berg, Elizabeth. The Dream Lover: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2015. 356 pp. $28. ISBN: 978-0-8129-9315-8.

Berns, Andrew D. The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Search of Truth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 300 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-107-06554-3.

Blakeway, Amy. Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. St. Andrews Studies in Scottish History. Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2015. xiv + 290 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84383-980-4.

Bollmeyer, Matthias. Lateinisches Welfenland: Eine literaturgeschichtliche Kartographie zur lateinischen Gelegenheitsdichtung im Herzogtum Braunschweig-Lüneburg im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Noctes Neolatinae: Neo-Latin Texts and Studies 20. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2014. 700 pp. €98. ISBN: 978-3-487-15113-7.

Branca, Vittore. Studi sui cantari. Biblioteca di “Lettere Italiane” 75. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2014. xvi + 116 pp. €20. ISBN: 978-88-222-6330-8.

Brand, Benjamin. Holy Treasure and Sacred Song: Relic Cults and their Liturgies in Medieval Tuscany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxiv + 296 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-19-935135-0.

Brant, Sebastian. Indices zu “Tugent Spyl” und “Narrenschiff.” Eds. Frédéric Hartweg and Wolfgang Putschke. 2 vols. Alpha-Omega D. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2014. viii + 668 pp. €196. ISBN: 978-3-487-15061-1.

Buccheri, Alessandra. The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439–1650: Italian Art and Theatre. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xii + 204 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4724-1883-8.

Butler, Katherine. Music in Elizabethan Court Politics. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 14. Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2015. x + 260 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-84383-981-1.

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. El divino cazador. Eds. Ignacio Arellano and M. Carmen Pinillos. Autos Sacramentales Completos de Calderón 89. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2014. 112 pp. €42. ISBN: 978-3-944244-30-3.

Calhoun, Alison. Montaigne and the Lives of the Philosophers: Life Writing and Transversality in the Essais. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2015. viii + 204 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-61149-479-2.

Canonica-Sawina, Anna. La nascita del Rinascimento a Firenze. Storie d’Italia 6. Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 2014. 200 pp. €22. ISBN: 978-88-7667-509-6.

Cardano, Girolamo. Carcer. Eds. Marialuisa Baldi, Guido Canziani, and Eugenio Di Rienzo. Hyperchen: Testi e studi per la storia della cultura del Rinascimento 5. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2014. vi + 236 pp. €25. ISBN: 978-88-222-63315.

Carocci, Anna. “Non si odono altri canti”: Leonardo Giustinian nella Venezia del Quattrocento. Con l’edizione delle canzonette secondo il ms. Marciano It. IX 486. Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie 7. Rome: Viella, 2014. 276 pp. €32. ISBN: 978-88-6728-321-7.

Carruthers, Mary. The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages. Oxford-Warburg Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 234 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-19-872325-7.

Celenza, Christopher S. Machiavelli: A Portrait. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 240 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-41612-3.

Christiansen, Nancy. Figuring Style: The Legacy of Renaissance Rhetoric. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2013. xii + 640 pp. $130. ISBN: 978-1-61117-240-9.

Cippico, Coriolano. The Deeds of Commander Pietro Mocenigo in Three Books. Ed. Kiril Petkov. New York: Italica Press, 2014. xxxviii + 110 pp. $30. ISBN: 978-1-59910-295-5.

Crabb, Ann. The Merchant of Prato’s Wife: Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360–1423. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 276 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0-472-11949-3.

Danielson, Dennis. Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxiv + 220 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-107-03360-3.

Delogu, Daisy. Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. viii + 274 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4187-7.

De Ribadeneira, S.J., Pedro. The Life of Ignatius of Loyola. Trans. Claude Pavur, S.J. Jesuit Primary Sources in English Translation 28. Saint Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2014. xxxii + 484 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-880810-83-2.

De Vroom, Theresia. The Lady Vanishes: Fantasies of Female Heroism in Shakespeare’s Lost Plays. Los Angeles: Marymount Institute Press, 2014. xi + 430 pp. $64.95. ISBN: 978-1-941392-10-2.

Di Tullio, Matteo. The Wealth of Communities: War, Resources and Cooperation in the Renaissance Lombardy. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvi + 218 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724- 4246-8.

Dumas, Geneviève. Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge. The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500 102. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xiv + 592 pp. $250. ISBN: 978-90-04-28239-1.

Egel, Nikolaus Andreas. Die Welt Im Übergang: Der diskursive, subjektive und skeptische Charakter der Mappamondo des Fra Mauro. Beiträge zur Philosophie: Neue Folge. Heidelberg: Universitäetsverlag Winter, 2014. 428 pp. €54.00. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6214-0.

Enenkel, Karl A.E. Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350–ca. 1650): Zur autorisierenden und wissensvermittelnden Funktion von Widmungen, Vorworttexten, Autorporträts und Dedikationsbildern. Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 48. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxviii + 658 pp. $241. ISBN: 978-90-04-27694-9.

Engle, Lars, and Eric Rasmussen. Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. xii + 256 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3244-2.

Erasmus, Desiderius. Moria de Erasmo Roterodamo: A Critical Edition of the Early Modern Spanish Translation of Erasmus’s Encomium Moriae. Eds. Jorge Ledo and Harm den Boer. Heterodoxia Iberica 1. Leiden: Brill, 2014. x + 414 pp. $194. ISBN: 978-90-04-23131-3.

Estill, Laura. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2015. xxviii + 256 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-1- 61149-514-0.

Farabee, Darlene. Shakespeare’s Staged Spaces and Playgoers’ Perceptions. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xii + 180 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137-42714-4.

Fernández, Enrique. Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain. Toronto Iberic 17. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x + 274 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4886-9.

Ferreri, Luigi, ed. L’Italia degli Umanisti I: Marco Musuro. Europa Humanistica 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. xxx + 696 pp. €95. ISBN: 978-2-503-55483-9.

Filedt Kok, Jan Piet, Walter Gibson, and Yvette Bruijnen. Cornelis Engebrechtsz: A Sixteenth-Century Leiden Artist and his Workshop. With contributions by Esther van Duijn and Peter Klein. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 316 pp. €135. ISBN: 978-2-503-54223-2.

Finucci, Valeria. The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. x + 274 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-72545-4.

Flood, John, ed. The Works of Walter Quin: An Irishman at the Stuart Courts. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. 292 pp. €55. ISBN: 978-1-84682-504-0.

Freiberg, Jack. Bramante’s Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xl + 318 pp. $115. ISBN: 978-1-107-04297-1.

Friedman, Edward. Quixotic Haiku: Poems and Notes. Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta - Hispanic Monographs, 2014. 172 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-58871- 256-1.

Giehlow, Karl. The Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs in the Allegorical Studies of the Renaissance: With a Focus on the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I. Trans. Robin Raybould. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 240; Brill’s Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 16. Leiden: Brill, 2015. viii + 352 pp. $175. ISBN: 978-90-04-28172-1.

Giusti, Eugenio L. The Renaissance Courtesan in Words, Letters and Images: Social Amphibology and Moral Framing (A Diachronic Perspective). Studi e Ricerche. Milan: LED, 2014. 96 pp. €17.50. ISBN: 978-88-7916-684-3.

Goldring, Elizabeth. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art: Painting and Patronage at the Court of Elizabeth I. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xx + 380 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0-300-19224-7.

Gunther, Karl. Reformation Unbound: Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 284 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-07448-4.

Hamilton, Michelle M. Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality, and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo- Iberian Manuscript. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 57. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xlvi + 308 pp. $163. ISBN: 978-90-04-27737-3.

Hansen, Morten Steen. In Michelangelo’s Mirror: Perino Del Vaga, Daniele Da Volterra, Pellegrino Tibaldi. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2013. xvi + 218 pp. $94.95. ISBN: 978–0– 271–05640–1.

Hassel, Jr., R. Chris. Shakespeare’s Religious Language: A Dictionary. Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xxiv + 456 pp. $44.95. ISBN: 978-1-4725-7726-9.

Heal, Felicity. The Power of Gifts: Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 258 pp. $110. ISBN: 978-0-19-954295-6.

Helmers, Helmer J. The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1639–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 326 pp. $99. ISBN: 978- 1-107-08761-3.

Hermanson, Anne. The Horror Plays of the English Restoration. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. viii + 186 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1- 4724-1552-3.

Hernández Lobato, Jesús. El Humanismo que no fue: Sidonio Apolinar en el Renacimiento. Cultura Umanistica e Saperi Moderni 2. Bologna: Pàtron Editore Bologna, 2014. 218 pp. €23. ISBN: 978- 88-555-3288-4.

Hitchins, Stephen Graham. Art as History, History as Art: Jheronimus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Assembling Knowledge Not Setting Puzzles. Nijmegen Art Historical Studies XXI. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. xiv + 420 pp. €125. ISBN: 978-2-503-55455-6.

Hodgson, Elizabeth. Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. x + 196 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-107-07998-4.

Howe, Elizabeth Teresa. Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xii + 308 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3577-4.

Jackson, Russell. Shakespeare and the English-Speaking Cinema. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 190 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-965946-3.

Johns, Christopher M. S. The Visual Culture of Catholic Enlightenment. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xxii + 414 pp. $89.95. ISBN: 978-0-271-06208-2.

Juhász, Gergely M. Translating Resurrection: The Debate between William Tyndale and George Joye in Its Historical and Theological Context. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 165. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xviii + 550 pp. $199. ISBN: 978-90-04-24894-6.

Kim, David Young. The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. x + 294 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-0-300-19867-6.

Kinney, Arthur F. Renaissance Reflections: Selected Essays, 1976–2012. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. xii + 496 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-62534-064-1.

Kluge, Sofie. Diglossia: The Early Modern Reinvention of Mythological Discourse. Teatro del Siglo de Oro: Estudios de Literatura 122. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2014. xii + 350 pp. €62. ISBN: 978-3-944244-27-3.

Knop, Déborah, and Jean Balsamo. De la servitude volontaire: Rhétorique et politique en France sous les derniers Valois. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2014. 248 pp. €12. ISBN: 979-10-240-0364-1.

Kugelmeier, Christoph, Peter Riemer, and Clemens Zintzen, eds. Marsilio Ficino: Index rerum. Indices zur Lateinischen Literatur der Renaissance 3.2. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2014. xxii + 186 pp. €48. ISBN: 978-3-487-15131-1.

Lavery, Hannah. The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. 198 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2202-6.

Lawrence, Mary. The Alchemist’s Daughter. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2015. 290 pp. $15. ISBN: 978-1-61773-710-7.

Lenihan, Pádraig. The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot (1631–91). Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2014. x + 268 pp. €40. ISBN: 978-1-906359-83-6.

Le Roux, Nicolas. Le crépuscule de la chevalerie: Noblesse et guerre au siècle de la Renaissance. Époques. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2015. 410 pp. €28. ISBN: 978-2-87673-901-7.

Linden, David van der. Experiencing Exile: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700. Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650–1750. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xx + 290 pp. $134.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2927-8.

Lisken-Pruss, Marion. Gonzales Coques (1614–1684): Der kleine Van Dyck. Pictura Nova: Studies in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Flemish Painting and Drawing 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 496 pp. €125. ISBN: 978-2-503-51568-7.

Loxley, James, Anna Groundwater, and Julie Sanders, eds. Ben Jonson’s Walk to Scotland: An Annotated Edition of the “Foot Voyage.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xviii + 238 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-00333-0.

Lynch, Helen. Milton and the Politics of Public Speech. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xviii + 284 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1520-2.

Machielsen, Jan. Martin Delrio: Scholarship and Demonology in the Counter-Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. x + 442 pp. $150. ISBN: 978-0-19-726580-2.

Marino, Giovan Battista. Dicerie sacre. Ed. Erminia Ardissino. Biblioteca Italiana Testi e Studi 2. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014. 394 pp. €50. ISBN: 978-88-6372-516-2.

Maxson, Brian. The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 302 pp. $95. ISBN: 978-1-107-04391-6.

Mayer, Thomas F. The Roman Inquisition: Trying Galileo. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. viii + 354 pp. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4655-1.

May, Steven W., and Arthur F. Marotti. Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman’s Household Book. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. xiv + 272 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978- 0-8014-5656-5.

Melchiorre, Matteo. “Ecclesia nostra”: La cattedrale di Padova, il suo Capitolo e i suoi canonici nel primo secolo veneziano (1406–1509). Nuovi Studi Storici 92. Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2014. 514 pp. €34. ISBN: 978-88-98079-13-1.

Mézières, Philippe de. Songe du Viel Pelerin. Ed. Joël Blanchard. 2 vols. Textes Littéraires Français 633. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. clxiv + 1744 pp. $110.40. ISBN: 978-2-600-01835-7.

Minchella, Giuseppina. Frontiere aperte: Musulmani, ebrei e cristiani nella Repubblica di Venezia. I libri di Viella 185. Rome: Viella, 2014. 384 pp. €35. ISBN: 978-88-6728-346-0.

Modesti, Adelina. Elisabetta Sirani “Virtuosa”: Women’s Cultural Production in Early Modern Bologna. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 22. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. xliv + 448 pp. €150. ISBN: 978-2-503-53584-5.

Moshenska, Joe. Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 390 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-871294-7.

Murner, Thomas. Von dem grossen Lutherischen Narren (1522). Ed. and trans. Thomas Neukirchen. Beihefte Zum Euphorion, Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte 83. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014. 382 pp. €88. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6388-8.

Nadal, S.J., Jerome. Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels: Cumulative Index. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2014. x + 196 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-916101-62-6.

Nellen, Henk. Hugo Grotius: A Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State, 1583–1645. Trans. J.C. Grayson. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxxii + 828 pp. + 130 color pls. $258. ISBN: 978-90-04-27436-5.

O’Neill, Timothy. The Irish Hand: Scribes and their Manuscripts from the Earliest Times. Cork: Cork University Press, 2014. xii + 136 pp. €39. ISBN: 978-1-78205-092-6.

Parsons, Jotham. Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. xii + 324 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5159-1.

Partridge, Loren. Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400–1600. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xxiv + 348 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-28180-6.

Patterson, W. B. William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 266 pp. $105. ISBN: 978-0-19-968152-5.

Peureux, Guillaume. La muse satyrique (1600–1622). Les seuils de la modernité 17. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. 226 pp. $49.20. ISBN: 978-2-600-01853-1.

Profeti, Maria Grazia. Lo trágico y lo cómico mezclado. Ed. Agapita Jurado Santos. Teatro del Siglo de Oro: Estudios de Literatura 121. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2014. x + 152 pp. €44. ISBN: 978- 3-944244-26-6.

Pujeau, Emmanuelle. L’Europe et les Turcs: La croisade de l’humaniste Paolo Giovio. Tempus. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2015. 504 pp. €27. ISBN: 978-2-8107-0336-4.

Roberts, David. Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 252 pp. $27.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-61797-1.

Roest, Bert. Franciscan Learning, Preaching and Mission c. 1220–1650: Cum scientia sit donum Dei, armatura ad defendendam sanctam fidem catholicam ... The Medieval Franciscans 10. Leiden: Brill, 2015. x + 246 pp. $142. ISBN: 978-90-04-28061-8.

Rosen, Mark. The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy: Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxiv + 272 pp. $99. ISBN: 978- 1-107-06703-5.

Rubini, Rocco. The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xx + 386 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-18613-9.

Ruggiero, Guido. The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvii + 636 pp. $36.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-71938-4.

Salkeld, Duncan. Shakespeare Among the Courtesans: Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500–1650. Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xiv + 206 pp. $114.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6387-4.

Sanudo, Marino. Itinerario per la Terraferma veneziana. Ed. Gian Maria Varanini. Cliopoli: Città, Storia, Identità 1. Rome: Viella, 2014. 684 pp. €50. ISBN: 978-88-6728-127-5.

Schmidt, Benjamin. Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xx + 412 pp. $85. ISBN: 978- 0-8122-4646-9.

Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm. Geschichte der christlichen Kabbala, Band 4: Bibliographie. Clavis Pansophiae 10.4. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2015. vi + 188 pp. €59. ISBN: 978-3-7728-2607-8.

Scott, Alison V. Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. viii + 238 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6403-1.

Scully, Terence. The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco Napoletano. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2015. viii + 256 pp. $80. ISBN: 978-0-472-03636-3.

Shaw, Christine. Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy. History of Warfare 102. Leiden: Brill, 2015. viii + 284 pp. $149. ISBN: 978-90-04-28275-9.

Shell, Alison. Shakespeare and Religion. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015. xii + 308 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4725-68175.

Simpson, Sue. Sir Henry Lee (1533–1611): Elizabethan Courtier. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xii + 244 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3739-6.

Skinner, Quentin. Forensic Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 356 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-19-955824-7.

Smith, A. Mark. From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. xii + 458 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-0-226-17476-1.

Smith, Daniel Starza. John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxiv + 390 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-0-19-967913-3.

Solum, Stefanie. Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xviii + 288 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-6203-3.

Stanev, Hristomir A. Sensory Experience and the Metropolis on the Jacobean Stage (1603–1625). Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. x + 214 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2445-7.

Stanton, Kay. Shakespeare’s “Whores”: Erotics, Politics, and Poetics. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x + 192 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-1-137-02632-3.

Stowell, Steven F. H. The Spiritual Language of Art: Medieval Christian Themes in Writings on Art of the Italian Renaissance. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 186. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xii + 406 pp. $193. ISBN: 978-90-04-28391-6.

Suárez, Francisco. De legibus ac Deo legislatore; Liber tertius: De lege positiva humana, Teil 1 / Über die Gesetze und Gott den Gesetzgeber; Drittes Buch: Über das menschliche positive Gesetz, Teil 1. Eds. Oliver Bach, Norbert Brieskorn, and Gideon Stiening. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann- Holzboog, 2014. xxxiv + 456 pp. €188. ISBN: 978-3-7728-2509-5.

Suárez, Francisco. De legibus ac Deo legislatore; Liber tertius: De lege positiva humana, Teil 2 / Über die Gesetze Und Gott den Gesetzgeber; Drittes Buch: Über das menschliche positive Gesetz, Teil 2. Eds. Oliver Bach, Norbert Brieskorn, and Gideon Stiening. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann- Holzboog, 2014. xviii + 408 pp. €188. ISBN: 978-3-7728-2655-9.

Te Velde, Dolf, Rein Ferwerda, Willem J. van Asselt, William den Boer, and Riemer A. Faber, eds. Synopsis Purioris Theologiae / Synopsis of a Purer Theology; Volume 1: Disputations 1–23. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 187; Texts & Sources 5. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xvi + 660 pp. $154. ISBN: 978-90-04-19218-8.

True, Micah. Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xviii + 242 pp. $32.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735- 4513-7.

Tuttle, Richard J. The Neptune Fountain in Bologna: Bronze, Marble, and Water in the Making of a Papal City. Eds. Nadja Aksamija and Francesco Ceccarelli. Vistas: New Scholarship on Sculpture 1250–1780. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015. 248 pp. €75. ISBN: 978-1-909400-24-5.

Van Havre, Jean. La citadelle de la vertu, ou, La véritable tranquillité de l’âme: Arx virtutis sive de vera, Animi tranquillitate (1627). Trans. Stéphane Mercier. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 37. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. 224 pp. €65. ISBN: 978-94-6270-012-3.

Vesalius, Andreas. Vesalius: The China Root Epistle: A New Translation and Critical Edition. Ed. and trans. Daniel H. Garrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxviii + 264 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-107-02635-3.

Williams, Mark R.F. The King’s Irishmen: The Irish in the Exiled Court of Charles II, 1649–1660. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 19. Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2014. x + 340 pp. $120. ISBN: 978-1-84383-925-5.

Wing, John T. Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, c. 1500–1750. Brill’s Series in the History of the Environment 4. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xiv + 268 pp. $142. ISBN: 978-90- 04-26136-5.

Edited Collections:

Baker-Bates, Piers, and Miles Pattenden, eds. The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xiv + 278 pp. $119.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4149-2.

Includes: Simon Ditchfield, “Introduction”; Catherine Fletcher, “Mere Emulators of Italy: The Spanish in Italian Diplomatic Discourse, 1492–1550”; Nicholas Davidson, “Hispanophobia in the Venetian Republic”; Stephen Cummins, “Encountering Spain in Early Modern Naples: Language, Customs and Sociability”; Miles Pattenden, “Rome as a ‘Spanish Avignon’? The Spanish Faction and the Monarchy of Philip II”; Paolo Broggio, “Rome and the ‘Spanish Theology’: Spanish Monarchy, Doctrinal Controversies and the Defence of Papal Prerogatives from Clement VIII to Urban VIII”; Clare Copeland, “Spanish Saints in Counter-Reformation Italy”; Piers Baker-Bates, “‘Graecia Capta Ferum Victorem Coepit’: Spanish Patrons and Italian Artists”; Robert W. Gaston and Andrea M. Gáldy, “The Stranded Tomb: Cultural Allusions in the Funeral Monument of Don Pedro de Toledo, San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, Naples”; Elena Calvillo, “Inventive Translation, Portraiture and Spanish Habsburg Taste in the Sixteenth century”; and Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas, “The Politics of Art or the Art of Politics? The Marquis del Carpio in Rome and Naples (1677–1687).”

Beecher, Donald, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams, eds. Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x + 316 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4201-0.

Includes: Grant Williams, “Law and the Production of Literature: An Introductory Perspective”; Bradin Cormack, “Paper Justice, Parchment Justice: Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the Life of Legal Documents”; Tim Stretton, “Conditional Promises and Legal Instruments in The Merchant of Venice”; Virginia Lee Strain, “The ‘Snared Subject’ and the General Pardon Statute in Late Elizabethan Coterie Literature”; Debora Shuger, “The Prison Diaries of Archbishop Laud”; David Stymeist, “Criminal Biography in Early Modern News Pamphlets”; Barbara Kreps, “Two-Sided Legal Narratives: Slander, Evidence, Proof, and Turnarounds in Much Ado About Nothing”; Elizabeth Hanson, “No Boy Left Behind: Education and Distributive Justice in Early Modern England”; Judith Owens, “Warding Off Injustice in Book Five of The Faerie Queene”; John D. Staines, “Torture and the Tyrant’s Injustice from Foxe to King Lear”; Elliott Visconsi, “The Literatures of Toleration and Civil Religion in Post-Revolutionary England”; and Paul Stevens, “Obnoxious Satan: Milton, Neo-Roman Justice, and the Burden of Grace.”

Boillet, Elise, Sonia Cavicchioli, and Paul-Alexis Mellet, eds. Les figures de David à la Renaissance. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 124. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2015. 550 pp. $61.38. ISBN: 978-2-600-01813-5.

Includes: Elise Boillet, Sonia Cavicchioli, and Paul-Alexis Mellet, “Introduction : David figure biblique aux visages multiples”; Dominique Vinay, “Charles VIII et David au temps des guerres d’Italie”; Pina Ragionieri, “Il David di Michelangelo come simbolo delle più alte virtù civili”; Corinne Meyniel, “David ou l’adultère d’Antoine de Montchrestien (1601) : Roi d’Israël, ‘ça ne donne pas le droit au bonheur’”; Gilles Bertheau, “Jacques VI/Ier et David : L’exemplarité en question”; Michel Senellart, “Figures du bon gouvernement dans la Biblische policey (1653) de Dietrich Reinkingk”; Dénes Harai, “Saül et David dans la pensée politique de l’élite protestante hongroise au début du XVIIe siècle”; Noëlle-Christine Rebichon, “Du ‘sains peschieres’ au ‘prodon’: La figure du Preux David dans les cycles peints en Italie”; Alain Bègue and Emma Herrán Alonso, “La figure de David dans la prose espagnole du XVIe siècle : L’exemple du Libro de cavallería celestial de Jerónimo de Sampedro”; Jean-Luc Nardone, “Goliath, le David de Leone Santi: Sur le Gigante (1632) et le David (1637), deux tragédies jésuites en une seule”; Jean Duron, “David, Jonathas, une amitié de collège? Réflexion autour du David & Jonathas de Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1688)”; Giuseppe Ledda, “La danza e il canto dell’’umile salmista’: David nella Commedia di Dante”; Sabrina Ferrara, “La ‘trinité’ politique de Dante entre personnages bibliques et quête identitaire”; Renato Meucci, “Re David ‘violista da gamba’ nell’iconografia musicale del primo Cinquecento italiano”; Sonia Cavicchioli, “Re David nella decorazione dell’organo dell’abbazia benedettina di San Pietro a Modena (1524–1546)”; Camilla Cavicchi, “L’autoportrait de Garofalo en roi David”; Elise Boillet, “David, personnage et masque de l’Arétin entre XVIe et XVIIe siècle”; Marco Faini, “La figura di David nei poemi biblici italiani tra Cinque e Settecento”; Max Engammare, “Bethsabée, des Mystères du XVe siècle à Pallavicino et Racine”; Joséphine Le Foll, “La Bethsabée au bain de Véronèse ou la place de David”; and Jean-Francois Lattarico, “Du Livre au livre libertin: La Bersabee de Ferrante Pallavicino (Venise, 1639).”

Braun, Harald E., and Jesús Pérez-Magallón, eds. The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque: Complex Identities in the Atlantic World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xiv + 316 pp. $134.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2750-2.

Includes: Harald E. Braun and Jesús Pérez-Magallón, “Introduction”; Bartolomé Clavero, “Person and Individual: Baroque Identities in Theology and Law”; Ruth Hill, “Towards a Constructionist Essentialism: Critical Race Studies and the Baroque”; Harald E. Braun, “Higher Education, ‘Soft Power,’ and Catholic Identity: A Case Study from Early Modern Salamanca”; Renée Soulodre-La France, “‘The people of the King’: Autonomy and Collective Identity in Coyaima”; Henry Kamen, “Baroque Religion in Spain: Spanish or European?”; José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, “The Baroque and the Influence of the Spanish Monarchy in Europe (1580–1648)”; Pablo Fernández Albaladejo, “Rethinking Identity: Crisis of Rule and Reconstruction of Identity in the Monarchy of Spain”; Carlos-Urani Montiel and Shiddarta Vásquez Córdoba, “The Preacher Feeds and the Sermon Soothes: Body and Metaphor in Jesuit Preaching”; Manuel Lucena Giraldo, “The Creole Metropolis”; Manuel Herrero Sánchez, “Foreign Communities in the Cities of the Catholic Monarchy: A Comparative Perspective between the Overseas Dominions and the Crown of Castile”; Jesús Pérez-Magallón, “Writing Madrid, Writing Identity: A Spatial Dialogue between the 17th and 18th Centuries”; José R. Jouve Martín, “The City and the Phoenix: Earthquakes, Royal Obsequies, and Urban Rivalries in Mid-18th-Century Peru”; Patricia Saldarriaga, “The Imagery of Jerusalem in the Colonial City”; W. George Lovell, “Elegies for a Homeland: A Baroque Chronicle, a Marxist Critique, and Conflicting Identities in Colonial Guatemala”; Kristin Norget, “Neo-Baroque Catholic Evangelism in Post-Secular Mexico”; and Anabel Quan-Haase and Kim Martin, “La Fiesta de Santo Tomás as a Technology of Culture: Memory, Carnival, and Syncretism in the Modern Guatemalan Identity.”

Coles, Kimberly Anne, Ralph Bauer, Zita Nunes, and Carla L. Peterson, eds. The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500–1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvi + 274 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137- 33820-4.

Includes: Priscilla Wald, “Foreword”; Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Carla L. Peterson, and Zita Nunes, “Introduction”; Rachel Burk, “Metamateriality and Blood Purity in Cervantes’s Alcaná de Toledo”; Ruth Hill, “The Blood of Others: Breeding Plants, Animals, and White People in the Spanish Atlantic”; Jean Feerick, “‘Rude Uncivill Blood’: The Pastoral Challenge to Hereditary Race in Fletcher and Milton”; Lyndon Dominique, “African Blood, Colonial Money, and Respectable Mulatto Heiresses Reforming Eighteenth-Century England”; M. Lindsay Kaplan, “‘His blood be upon us and upon our children’: Medical Theology and the Demise of Jewish Somatic Inferiority in Early Modern England”; Anna More, “Sor Juana’s Appetite: Body, Mind, and Vitality in ‘First Dream’”; Hannah Spahn, “Blood and Character in Early African American Literature”; Robert Appelbaum, “Flowing or Pumping? The Blood of the Body Politic in Burton, Harvey, and Hobbes”; Staffan Müller Wille, “Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World”; James Downs, “‘Who Got Bloody?’: The Cultural Meaning of Blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction”; and David Sartorius, “Colonial Transfusions: Cuban Bodies and Spanish Loyalty in the Nineteenth Century.”

Collins, Michael J., ed. Reading What’s There: Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2014. viii + 180 pp. $70. ISBN: 978-1-61149-507-2.

Includes: Michael J. Collins, “Introduction”; Mark Womack, “The Interpretive Fallacy”; Brett Gamboa, “What Passed wasn’t Prologued: False Advertising in Romeo and Juliet”; Nicholas Nace, “Mutatis Non Mutandis: The Reading Mind and Its Autocorrect Function in The Rape of Lucrece”; Michael Goldman, “On the Final Songs in Love’s Labors Lost”; James Hirsh, “The Second Part of Henry IV: Expectation and Disappointment”; Ralph Alan Cohen, “Naughty Orators: The Knotty Discourse of All’s Well that Ends Well”; Jay L. Halio, “The Tragic Dimension in Shakespeare’s Comedies”; Margaret C. Maurer, “Leonato and Beatrice in Act 5, Scene 4, Line 97 of Much Ado About Nothing”; Thomas Berger, “Mistakes were Made: Errata in Early Modern English Playbooks”; Laurie Ellinghausen, “Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnets the Boothian Way”; Louisa Newlin, “Taught by a Teacher to Teach: A Personal History or What I Learned from Stephen Booth”; Michael Ellis- Tolaydo, “Go, Dog. Go!: A Lesson on the Pleasures of Language”; and Brett Gamboa and Michael J. Collins, “A Bibliography of the Work of Stephen Booth.”

Dahood, Roger, and Peter E. Medine, eds. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History. Third Series 11. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2014. xiv + 416 pp. $167.00. ISBN: 978-0-404-64561-8.

Includes: M. Teresa Tavormina, “Uroscopy in Middle English: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts”; Sean L. Field, “Paris to Rome and Back Again: The Nuns of Longchamp and Leo X’s 1521 Bull Piis Omnium”; Simon J. G. Burton, “Between Aristotle and Augustine: Peter Martyr Vermigli and the Development of Protestant Ethics”; Christina M. Carlson, “‘And I Openly Profes Myself/ of the Arminian Sect’: Arminianism in Sir John van Oldenbarnavelt (1619) and Two Seventeenth Century English Political Prints, ca. 1628–41”; Paul Hartle, “‘It’s Good to Talk: Conversations Between Gods, Men and Beasts in Early Modern English Versions of Lucian’s ‘Dialogues’”; Peter Craft, “Peter Heylyn’s Seventeenth-Century English Worldview”; and Christopher Carlsmith, “Diamond Jubilee: A History of the New England Renaissance Conference, 1939–2014.”

Deats, Sara Munson, and Robert A. Logan, eds. Christopher Marlowe at 450. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xii + 370 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-0943-0.

Includes: Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan, “Introduction”; Ruth Lunney, “Dido, Queen of Carthage”; Tom Rutter, “Tamburlaine: Parts One and Two”; Sara Munson Deats, “Doctor Faustus”; Stephen J. Lynch, “The Jew of Malta”; Robert A. Logan, “Edward II”; Leah S. Marcus, “The Massacre at Paris”; Patrick Cheney, “‘The Passionate Shepherd and His Love’ and Hero and Leander”; M. L. Stapleton, “Translations of Ovid and Lucan”; Richard Wilson, “Specters of Marlowe: The State of the Debt and the Work of Mourning”; David Bevington, “Marlowe’s Plays in Performance: A Brief History”; Christopher Matusiak, “Marlowe and Theatre History”; David McInnis, “Marlowe and Electronic Resources”; and Constance Brown Kuriyama, “Marlowe Biography: Fact, Inference, Conjecture, and Speculation.”

Decker, John R., and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives, eds. Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xvi + 264 pp. $109.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3367-1.

Includes: John R. Decker, “Introduction: Spectacular Unmaking: Creative Destruction, Destructive Creativity”; Assaf Pinkus, “Guido da Siena and the Four Modes of Violence”; Mitzi Kirkland-Ives, “The Suffering Christ and Visual Mnemonics in Netherlandish Devotions”; Soetkin Vanhauwaert, “A Chopped-Off Head on a Golden Plate: Jan Mostaert’s Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Plate Surrounded by Angels”; Kelley Magill, “Reviving Martyrdom: Interpretations of the Catacombs in Cesare Baronio’s Patronage”; Natalia Khomenko, “The Authorizations of Torture: John Bale writing Anne Askew”; Renzo Baldasso, “Killing and Dying at The Death of Decius Mus”; Heather Madar, “Dracula, the Turks, and the Rhetoric of Impaling in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany”; Allie Terry-Fritsch, “Execution by Image: Visual Spectacularism and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe”; Maureen Warren, “A Shameful Spectacle: Claes Jansz. Visscher’s 1623 News Prints of Executed Dutch ‘Arminians’”; and John R. Decker, “Conclusion: Closing Thoughts.”

Dejager, Johan, ed. Great Books on Horsemanship: Bibliotheca Hippologica Johan Dejager. Leiden: Hes & De Graaf, 2014. 784 pp. $227. ISBN: 978-90-6194-480-5.

Includes: Elisabetta Deriu, “An Art in Motion: The Development and Dissemination of Equestrian Knowledge in Europe (16th–17th Centuries)”; Bernard Clerc, “The Development of Equine Medicine in Europe Viewed through the Works of the Equine Veterinarians of the 17th and 18th Centuries”; Thierry d’Erceville, “The Development of the Cavalry as Shown in the Works of Military Equerries of the 17th and 18th Centuries”; and Tim Clayton, “Horsemanship in Paintings, Drawings and Prints: The Outstanding Artists who Marked Four Centuries.”

Del Bo, Beatrice, ed. Cittadinanza e mestieri: Radicamento urbano e integrazione nelle città bassomedievali (secc. XIII–XVI). Italia comunale e signorile 6. Rome: Viella, 2014. 412 pp. €35. ISBN: 978-88-6728-336-1.

Includes: Beatrice Del Bo, “Introduzione”; Paolo Grillo, “Da diritto a privilegio: La cittadinanza nell’età comunale”; Flavia Negro, “La cittadinanza del vescovo (secc. XIII–XIV)”; Miriam Davide, “L’immigrazione lombarda nel Patriarcato di Aquileia: Acquisizione della cittadinanza e modalità di integrazione socio-economica”; Giovanna Petti Balbi, “Cittadinanza e altre forme di integrazione nella società genovese (secc. XIV–XV)”; Laura De Angelis, “La cittadinanza a Firenze (XIV–XV secolo)”; Beatrice Del Bo, “La cittadinanza milanese: Premessa o suggello di un percorso di integrazione?”; Maria Nadia Covini, “La patente perfetta: I privilegi accordati ai Simonetta dagli Sforza”; Carolina Obradors Suazo, “Cittadini forestieri e integrazione nella Barcellona del Quattrocento: Riflessioni sugli usi, sulle pratiche e sulla coscienza della cittadinanza tardomedievale”; Alma Poloni, “‘Nec compelli possit effici civis pisanus’: Sviluppo dell’industria laniera e immigrazione di maestranze forestiere a Pisa nel XIII e XIV secolo”; Ivana Ait, “L’immigrazione a Roma e Viterbo nel XV secolo: Forme di integrazione dei mercanti-banchieri toscani”; Anna Esposito, “Le minoranze indesiderate (corsi, slavi e albanesi) e il processo di integrazione nella società romana nel corso del Quattrocento”; Matteo Ceriana, “Reinhold C. Mueller, Radicamento delle comunità straniere a Venezia nel Medioevo: ‘scuole’ di devozione nella storia e nell’arte”; Maria Elisa Soldani, “Partire in cerca di fortuna: Mercanti stranieri e mobilità sociale nella Barcellona tardomedievale”; Sergio Tognetti, “Una famiglia di mercanti-banchieri fiorentini nella Francia del primo Cinquecento: I Gondi”; and Giuliano Pinto, “Conclusioni.”

Del Prete, Antonella, and Saverio Ricci, eds. Cristo nella filosofia dell’età moderna. Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana Quaderni 28. Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 2014. 248 pp. €26. ISBN: 978-88-6087-830-4.

Includes: Franco Buzzi, “La cristologia tra la ‘teologia di scuola’ el la ‘Riforma’”; Pietro Secchi, “Note sulla cristologia di Cusano”; Daniele Conti, “Marsilio Ficino tra Cristo e Socrate”; Stéphane Toussaint, “Il Cristo di Pico: Dalla Croce al Trigramma”; Vittoria Perrone Compagni, “Il Cristo legislatore di Pomponazzi”; Anna Lisa Schino, “Il Cristo dei libertini: Gesú mago e legislatore nelle pagine di Gabriel Naudé”; Jean-François Cottier, “La cristologia di Erasmo nelle Parafrasi dei Vangeli”; Saverio Ricci, “Un capo senza seguaci e seguaci senza un capo. La solitudine del Nazareno e la socievolezza del cristianesimo in Giordano Bruno”; Deborah Miglietta, “Il Cristo-uomo in Campanella”; Claudio Buccolini, “Il Cristo di Mersenne”; Pina Totaro, “Temi del Gesú storico nell’esegesi radicale di Spinoza”; and Antonella Del Prete, “Malebranche e l’Incarnazione: Variazioni su un tema.”

Departamento de Filología Clásica. Minerva: Revista de filología clásica 27. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, Secretariado de Publicaciones, 2014. 328 pp. €17.50. ISSN: 0213-9634.

Includes: Antonio Moreno Hernández, “Presentación”; Alberto Bernabé, “La edición crítica de textos griegos. Logros y posibilidades abiertas”; Javier Velaza, “Retos de la edición y la crítica de textos latinos”; Alicia Esteban Santos, “La Medea de Eurípides: Composición triádica y simétrica en función del contenido”; Marta Oller Guzmán, “Fantasmas de Aquiles: Epifanías heroicas entre el mito y el culto”; Raquel Fornieles Sánchez, “Eita y Etteita en la tragedia griega: De adverbios de tiempo a marcadores del discurso”; Martín Páez, “Las referencias bíblicas en el Ars Musica de Gil de Zamora: Fuentes y finalidades de uso”; José Ignacio García Armendáriz, “Plinio y Columela en la Historia literaria de España de los Rodríguez Mohedano”; Guillermo Soriano Sancha, “Tradición clásica en el Siglo de las Luces: Quintiliano y los ilustrados franceses”; Antonio Cascón Dorado, “Éxito y utilización ideológica de la novela histórica sobre la antigua Roma”; Nicola Serafini, “Antichi dèi, oggi: La Ecate dei neo-pagani”; Jorge Beruga Calero, “Observaciones sobre helenismos y latinismos recientes en el campo de la nomenclatura zoológica”; and Bienvenido Morros Mestres, “La muerte de Orfeo en un poema de Los placeres prohibidos de Luis Cernuda.”

Dunn, Leslie C., and Katherine Rebecca Larson, eds. Gender and Song in Early Modern England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvi + 220 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4341-0.

Includes: Leslie C. Dunn and Katherine R. Larson, “Introduction”; Scott A. Trudell, “Performing Women in English Books of Ayres”; Sarah F. Williams, “Witches, Lamenting Women, and Cautionary Tales: Tracing ‘The Ladies Fall’ in Early Modern English Broadside Balladry and Popular Song”; Jennifer Linhart Wood, “Listening to Black Magic Women: The Early Modern Soundscapes of Witch Drama and the New World”; Angela Heetderks, “‘Better a witty fool than a foolish wit’: Song, Fooling, and Intellectual Disability in Shakespearean Drama”; Amanda Eubanks Winkler, “Dangerous Performance: Cupid in Early Modern Pedagogical Masques”; Joseph M. Ortiz, “Making Music Fit for Kings: Reforming and Gendering Music in Samuel Rowley’s When You See Me, You Know Me”; Tessie L. Prakas, “Unimportant Women: The ‘Sweet Descants’ of Mary Sidney and Richard Crashaw”; Linda Phyllis Austern, “Domestic Song and the Circulation of Masculine Social Energy in Early Modern England”; Nora L. Corrigan, “Song, Political Resistance, and Masculinity in Thomas Heywood’s The Rape of Lucrece”; Erin Minear, “Music for Helen: The Fitful Changes of Troilus and Cressida”; and Kendra Preston Leonard, “The Use of Early Modern Music in Film Scoring for Elizabeth I.”

Eisenbichler, Konrad, ed. Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation: Essays in Honour of James M. Estes on His Eightieth Birthday. Essays and Studies 34. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 430 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-7727-2174-7.

Includes: Konrad Eisenbichler and Andrew Colin Gow, “A Student’s Recollection”; James McConica, “James M. Estes and the Collected Works of Erasmus”; Heinz Sheible, “Brenz and Melanchthon – Friends from Youth”; Timothy J. Wengert, “Face-to-Face Meetings between Philip Melanchthon and Johannes Brenz: Differentiated Consensus in the Reformation”; Valentina Sebastiani, “Erasmus of Rotterdam in Print: The Question of Reputation (1514–1521)”; Susan C. Karant-Nunn, “‘For What Has Erasmus to Do with Money?’ Desiderius Erasmus, a Paragonic Fund-Raiser”; Erika Rummel, “Wolfgang Capito and Erasmus: The Rapprochement of 1535”; Nicole Kuropka, “Erasmian Reform and Education in the Dutchy of Jülich-Berg”; Hermann Ehmer, “The History of Johannes Brenz’s Territorial Church: An Overview of the Organization of the Württemberg Church”; Raymond A. Mentzer, “Reorganizing the Pastorate: Innovations and Challenges in the French Reformed Churches”; Silvana Seidel Menchi, “The Label of Erasmus, the Doctrine of Luther”; Thomas Deutscher, “Johann Herolt and Thomas Stapleton: Two Northern Influences on Preaching in the Diocese of Novara”; Scott H. Hendrix, “Too Little, Too Late: The Erasmus-Luther Debate”; Amy Nelson Burnett, “‘Things I Never Said or Thought’? Erasmus’ Exegetical Contribution to the Early Eucharistic Controversy”; Robert Kolb, “The ‘Three Kingdoms’ of Simon Musaeus: A Wittenberg Student Processes Luther’s Thought”; Charles E. Fantazzi, “Erasmus’ Controversy with Agostino Steuco”; Mark Crane, “Slow and Cautious: The Origins of Printed Polemics by Paris Theologians Against Luther and Lutheranism (1519–1523)”; Paul F. Grendler, “The Attitudes of the Jesuits Toward Erasmus”; and Irene Dingel, “Religion in the Religious Peace Agreements of the Early Modern Period: Comparative Case Studies.”

Enenkel, Karl A. E., and Paul J. Smith, eds. Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 32. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xxiv + 522 pp. $179. ISBN: 978-90-04-26823-4.

Includes: Karl Enenkel, “Introduction”; Karl Enenkel, “Die antike Vorgeschichte der Verankerung der Naturgeschichte in Politik und Religion: Plinius’ Zoologie und der römische Imperialismus”; Karl Enenkel, “The Species and Beyond: Classification and the Place of Hybrids in Early Modern Zoology”; Sophia Hendrikx, “Identification of Herring Species (Clupeiae) in Conrad Gesner’s Ichtyological Works: A Case Study on Taxonomy, Nomenclature, and Animal Depiction in the 16th Century”; Bernd Roling, “Der Wal als Schauobjekt: Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), die dänische Nation und das Ende der Einhörner”; Eric Jorink, “Snakes, Fungi and Insects: Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Johannes Swammerdam and the Theory of Spontaneous Generation”; Brian W. Ogilvie, “Insects in John Ray’s Natural History and Natural Theology”; Bernd Roling, “Exkurs ins Pflanzenreich: Die Rose des Paracelsus: Die Idee der Palingenesie und die Debatte um die natürliche Auferstehung zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit”; Paul J. Smith, “Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of Man”; Amanda K. Herrin, “Pioneers of the Printed Paradise: Maarten de Vos, Jan Sadeler I and Emblematic Natural History of the Printed Paradise in the Late 16th Century”; Marrigje Rikken, “Exotic Animal Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Roelant Savery”; Sabine Kalff, “Are Cranes Republicans? A Short Chapter in Political Ornithology”; Alexander Loose, “Tierallegorie als ein Mittel der Fürstenerziehung: Die Theriobulia des böhmischen Humanisten Johannes Dubravius”; and Tamás Demeter, “From Physiology to Political Ideology: The Images of Man in Early Modern Scotland.”

Fondation Barbier-Mueller. Italique: Poésie italienne de la Renaissance. Italique XVII. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 242 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-2-600-01841-8.

Includes: Franco Tomasi, “Erotismo e sensualità nella lirica rinascimentale: Introduzione”; Tiziano Zanato, “Provare ‘l’ultimo valor’ di amore: Sensualità ed erotismo negli Amorum libri di Boiardo”; Erika Melburn, “Il sogno erotico nella lirica del Cinquecento”; Andrea Torre, “L’edonista riluttante: Erotismo, sessualità e mito adonico nel Rinascimento”; Giacomo Comiati, “Benché ‘I sol decline / vince un sol raggio suo tutte le stelle’: La parabola amorasa nelle Rime di Celio Magno”; Emilio Russo, “Sulle ‘amorose tenerezze’ del Marino. Tra Epitalami ed Adone”; Thomas Penguilly, “La Muse latine et la Muse vulgaire: André Alciat et la poésie italienne de son temps”; Ester Pietrobon, “Per una rilettura delle Rime di Messer Luca Contile”; and Alberto Roncaccia, “Fonti dell’attività letteraria dell’ Accademia di Modena: Due sonetti di Alessandro Melani.”

Gamberini, Andrea, ed. A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan: The Distinctive Features of an Italian State. Brill’s Companions to European History 7. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xiv + 548 pp. $241. ISBN: 978-90-04-28409-8.

Includes: Andrea Gamberini, “Introduction: Between Continuity and Discontinuity: In Search of the Original Characteristics of the State of Milan”; Andrea Gamberini, “Milan and Lombardy in the Era of the Visconti and the Sforza”; Stefano D’Amico, “Spanish Milan, 1535–1706”; Giancarlo Andenna, “The Lombard Church in the Late Middle Ages”; Claudia Di Filippo, “The Reformation and the Catholic Revival in the Borromeo’s Age”; Patrizia Mainoni, “The Economy of Renaissance Milan”; Giovanna Tonelli, “The Economy in the 16th and 17th Centuries”; Massimo Zaggia, “Culture in Lombardy, ca. 1350–1535”; Massimo Zaggia, “Culture in Lombardy, 1535–1706”; Serena Romano, “Milan (and Lombardy): Art and Architecture, 1277–1535”; lessandro Morandotti, “The Arts Under the Spanish Rulers (1535–1706)”; Giuliano Di Bacco, “Court and Church Music in 14th- and 15th-Century Milan”; Christine Getz, “Music in the 16th and 17th Centuries”; Simona Mori, “Territorial Identities”; Massimo Della Misericordia, “Founding a Social Cosmos: Perspectives for a Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Lombardy”; Germano Maifreda, “The Jews: Institutions, Economy, and Society”; Thomas Kuehn, “Gender and Law in Milan”; Jane Black, “The Politics of Law”; Alessandra Dattero, “Towards a New Social Category: The Military”; Federico Del Tredici, “Nobility in Lombardy between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age”; and Giuliana Albini, “People, Groups, and Institutions: Charity and Assistance in the Duchy of Milan from the 15th to the 17th Century.”

Gehring, Ulrike, and Peter Weibel, eds. Mapping Spaces: Networks of Knowledge in 17th Century Landscape Painting. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2014. 504 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-3-7774-2230-5.

Includes: Ulrike Gehring and Peter Weibel, “Preface”; Ulrike Gehring, “Painted Topographies: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Science and Technology in Seventeenth-Century Landscape Painting”; Rienk Vermij, “The Copernican Revolution and the Geometrization of Physical Space”; Jan Rohls, “Infinite Space: Calvinist Controversies and Theological Accomodations of a New Heaven”; Jacques Picard, “A Multitude of Worlds: Physica Mosaica and David Nieto’s Quest for a Jewish Natural Philosophy”; Inga Elmqvist Söderlund, “Heavens and Earth: Early Modern Astronomical Frontispieces”; Andreas Christoph, “On Earth and Heaven: Globes and Models of Cosmological Extensions”; Philipp Ziegler, “A New Genre of Cartographic Books: The Atlas Production in the Low Countries”; Wladimir Velminski, “The Tentative View of Cartography”; Jasper van Putten, “The City Book and the Emergence of the Artist-Chorographer”; Friso Lammertse, “‘Embedded Journalist’ of Naval Battles: Willem van de Velde I”; Jenny Gaschke, “Shaping the Seascape: Dutch Artists Imaging the Maritime World”; Thomas Filk, “Global Positioning and the Measurement of Time”; Karel Davids, “Colonial, Religious and Commercial Machines: Globalization as an Impulse for Knowledge”; Harold J. Cook, “Commerce, Trade and the Emergence of the New Sciences”; Pieter Biesboer, “Beyond Far Horizons”; Matthias Pfaffenbichler, “Documenting Military Events in Seventeenth-Century Battle Scenes”; Walter Kalina, “Painting for the General: Pieter Snayer’s Piccolomini Cycle”; Leen Kelchtermans, “Honing In on Pieter Snayers’ Working Method: Relief of Leuven, 1635”; Bettina Marten, “Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Fortifications in the Iberian Peninsula and the Netherlands”; Armin Schlechter, “Engraved Title Pages of Fortification Manuals”; Jeroen Goudeau, “The Horizon Besieged: Ways of Capturing Space in Early Modern Fortification Theory”; Wolfram Dolz, “Notch and Bead: The Development of Artillery Instruments for Measuring and Sighting”; Matteo Valleriani, “Agostino Ramelli as Recipient of a New Science of Ballistics”; Willem Otterspeer, “The Study of Practical Mathematics at Leiden University”; Tim Huisman, “Mastering the World: Three Collections of Curiosities in the Young Dutch Republic”; Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, “Geometrics of Space: Dutch Mathematics and the Visualization of Distance”; Hans-Joachim Vollrath, “The Didactic Function of Illustrations in Historical Surveying Books”; Hans-Ulrich Seifert, “From Gunter’s Chain to Systematic Triangulation: Geodetically Generated Landscapes in Early Modern Prints”; Tiemen Cocquyut, “The Holland Circle: Instrumental in Establishing the Dutch Surveyor and Instrument Maker’s Identity”; Karsten Gaulke, “Benjamin Bramer’s ‘Instrument-Kästlein’: Mathematical Equipment for a Young Prince”; Wolfgang Pircher, “The Landscape of the Engineer: An Historical Account of Land Reclamation”; Diedrik Aten, “Usefulness, Durability and Beauty. Reclaiming and Designing the Beemster Polder, 1607–1612”; Franz Ossing, “Clouds in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. The Urge Toward the Real”; Michael North, “The Rise of a Genre: Landscapes on the Dutch Art Market”; Peter Weibel, “Media, Mapping and Painting”; Andreas Beiten, “Imagination, Elevation, Battlefield Automation: From the Elevated View to Battle Drones”; and Linnea Semmerling, “Living Perspective: A Phenomenological Investigation of Landscape in Painting and Cartography.”

Glei, Reinhold F., and Wolfgang Polleichtner, eds. Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. With Nina Tomaszewski. New Series 40. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. xii + 186 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-4422-4300-2.

Includes: Albrecht Classen, “India Perceived through the Eyes of Sixteenth-Century Readers: Ludovico de Varthema’s Bestseller on the Early Modern Book Markets — A Narrative Landmark of the Emerging Positive Evaluation of curiositas (Together with a Study of Balthasar Sprenger’s Travelogue on India)”; Görge K. Hasselhoff, “The Image of Judaism in Nicholas of Cusa’s Writings”; Lorenzo Nosarti, “Some Remarks on the Hymn to Light of Dracontius (Laudes Dei 1,115–28)”; Valentina Prosperi, “‘Even Children and the Uneducated Know Them’: The Medieval Trojan Legends in Dante’s Commedia”; and Lucas Wood, “The Art of Clerkly Love: Drouart la Vache Translates Andreas Capellanus.”

Groppi, Angela, ed. Gli abitanti del ghetto di Roma: La Descriptio Hebreorum del 1733. I libri di Viella 187. Rome: Viella, 2014. 288 pp. €27. ISBN: 978-88-6728-349-1.

Includes: Claudio Procaccia, “Premessa”; Eugenio Lo Sardo, “Premessa”; Kenneth Stow, “Preface / Prefazione”; Angela Groppi, “Numerare e descrivere gli ebrei del ghetto di Roma”; Michaël Gasperoni, “Note sulla popolazione del ghetto di Roma in età moderna: Lineamenti e prospettive di ricerca”; Giancarlo Spizzichino, “L’Università degli ebrei di Roma tra controllo e repressione (1731– 1741)”; and Raffaele Pittella, “Labirinti archivistici e contesti istituzionali.”

Haye, Thomas, and Johannes Helmrath, eds. Codex im Diskurs. With the participation of Ulrike Michalczik. Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien 25. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. 272 pp. €62. ISBN: 978-3-447-10255-1.

Includes: Johannes Helmrath and Thomas Haye, “‘Codex im Diskurs’: Einleitung”; Bernd Michael, “Büchergeschichten: Implizite und explizite Diskurse in mittelalterlichen Büchern”; Christian Kiening, “Mystische Bücher”; Christel Meier, “Von der Inspirationserfahrung zum Codex: Formen und Stufen der Vertextung und Kodifizierung”; Hartmut Bleumer, “‘Codex Manesse’: Ein Buch zwischen Sang und Geschichte”; Barbara Frank-Job, “Der Codex im Diskurs: Formen der Textkonzeptualisierung im romanischen Mittelalter”; Ingo H. Kropac, “Codex un Verwaltung — eine Spurensuche”; Dieter Mertens, “Codex im Diskurs der Universität am Beispiel der Anfänge der Universität Freiburg”; Ulrich Eigler, “Libri peculiares? Der Codex als Ausdruck und Rahmen individueller Entfaltung”; and Zsuzsanna Kiséry, “munitus carminis imperio — Selbstdarstellungsstrategien in Benedetto da Piglios Libellus penarum: Humanisten in der Konzilsstadt Konstanz.”

Hirschauer, Gretchen A., and Dennis Geronimus, eds. Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2015. xii + 248 pp. $40.00. ISBN: 978- 0-89468-392-3.

Includes: Gretchen A. Hirschauer, “‘Building Castles in the Air’: The Story of Piero di Cosimo”; David Franklin, “Piero and the Painting of His Time”; Dennis Geronimus, “Plainspoken Piety: Drama and the Poetry of the Everyday in Piero’s Devotional Works”; Serena Padovani, “Piero and Portraiture”; Dennis Geronimus, “No Man’s Land: Lucretius and the Primitive Strain in Piero’s Art and Patronage”; Alison Luchs, “Creatures Great, Small, and Hybrid: The Natural and Unnatural Wonders in Piero’s Art”; Elizabeth Walmsley, “‘A Very Rich and Beautiful Effect’: Piero’s Painting Technique”; and Virginia Brilliant, “Piero di Cosimo in America.”

Kane, Brendan, and Valerie McGowan-Doyle, eds. Elizabeth I and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvi + 342 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-04087-8.

Includes: Brendan Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle, “Elizabeth I and Ireland: An Introduction”; Richard A. McCabe, “Ireland’s Eliza: Queen or Cailleach?”; Leah S. Marcus, “Elizabeth on Ireland”; Peter McQuillan, “A Bardic Critique of Queen and Court: ‘Ionmholta Malairt Bhisigh’, Eochaidh Ó hEodhasa, 1603”; B. R. Siegfried, “Recognizing Elizabeth I: Grafting, Sovereignty, and the Logic of Icons in an Instance of Bardic Poetry”; Ciaran Brady, “Coming Into the Weigh-House: Elizabeth I and the Government of Ireland”; Mark A. Hutchinson, “An Irish Perspective on Elizabeth’s Religion: Reformation Thought and Henry Sidney’s Irish Lord Deputyship, c.1560 to 1580”; Valerie McGowan-Doyle, “Elizabeth I, the Old English and the Rhetoric of Counsel”; Paul E. J. Hammer, “‘Base rogues’ and ‘gentlemen of quality’: The Earl of Essex’s Irish Knights and Royal Displeasure in 1599”; Hiram Morgan, “‘Tempt not God too long, O Queen’: Elizabeth and the Irish Crisis of the 1590s”; Andrew Hadfield, “War Poetry and Counsel in Early Modern Ireland”; Brendan Kane, “Elizabeth on Rebellion in Ireland and England: semper eadem?”; and Marc Caball, “Print, Protestantism and Cultural Authority in Elizabethan Ireland.”

Keeble, N. H., ed. “Settling the Peace of the Church”: 1662 Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xviii + 270 pp. $100. ISBN: 978-0-19-968853-1.

Includes: David Wykes and Isabel Rivers, “Preface”; N. H. Keeble, “Introduction: Attempting Uniformity”; Jacqueline Rose, “The Debate over Authority: Adiaphora, the Civil Magistrate, and the Settlement of Religion”; Paul Seaward, “‘Circumstantial temporary concessions’: Clarendon, Comprehension, and Uniformity”; Michael Davies, “‘The silencing of God’s dear Ministers’: John Bunyan and his Church in 1662”; Robert Armstrong, “The Bishops of Ireland and the Beasts at Ephesus: Reconstruction, Conformity, and the Presbyterian Knot, 1660–62”; Alasdair Raffe, “Presbyterian Politics and the Restoration of Scottish Episcopacy, 1660–62”; Cory Cotter, “Going Dutch: Beyond Black Bartholomew’s Day”; Owen Stanwood, “Crisis and Opportunity: The Restoration Church Settlement and New England”; N. H. Keeble, “The Nonconformist Narrative of the Bartholomeans”; and Mark Burden, “John Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy and Church of England Responses to the Ejections of 1660–62.”

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, John J. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. xxii + 552 pp. $66. ISBN: 978-0-268-03327-9.

Includes: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, “Preface”; Linne Mooney, “A Brief Biographical Sketch of Derek Pearsall”; Christopher Cannon, “Foreword to Part I”; A.C. Spearing, “Narrative and Freedom in Troilus and Cressida”; Oliver Pickering, “How Good Is the Outspoken South English Legendary Poet? A New Edition of the Prologue to the Conception of Mary”; Martha W. Driver, “Derek Pearsall, Secret Shakespearean”; William Marx, “Forword to Part II”; Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, “The Tongues of the Nightingale: ‘hertely redying’ at English Courts”; Susan Powell, “Wings, Wingfields, and Wyyere and Wastoure”; Sarah McNamer, “The Author of the Italian Meditations on the Life of Christ”; Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, “Handling The Book of Margery Kempe: The Corrective Touches of the Red Ink Annotator”; John J. Thompson, “Foreword to Part III”; Julia Boffey, “Assessing Manuscript Context: Visible and Invisible Evidence in a Copy of the Middle English Brut”; A.I. Doyle, “Books with Marginalia from St. Mark’s Hospital, Bristol”; Carol M. Meale, “John Colyns, Mercer and Bookseller of London, and Cuthbert Tunstall’s Second Monition of 1526”; A.S.G. Edwards, “Selling Lydgate Manuscripts in the Twentieth Century”; Siân Echard, “Foreword to Part IV”; Hannah Zdansky, “‘And fer ouer þe French flod’: A Look at Cotton Nero A.x from an International Perspective”; Hilary E. Fox, “Langlandian Economics in James Yonge’s Gouernaunce: Translation and Ethics in Fifteenth-Century Dublin”; Theresa O’Byrne, “Manuscript Creation in Dublin: The Scribe of Bodleian e. Museo MS 232 and Longleat MS 29”; Phillipa Hardman, “Foreword to Part V”; Nicole Eddy, “The Romance of History: Lambeth Palace MS 491 and Its Young Readers”; Karrie Fuller, “Langland in the Early Modern Household: Piers Plowman in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 145, and Its Scribe-Annotator Dialogues”; Maura Giles- Watson, “Playing as Literate Practice: Humanism and the Exclusion of Women Performers by the London Professional Stages”; Edward Wheatley, “Preface to Part VI”; Elizabeth Scala, “Quoting Chaucer: Textual Authority, the Nun’s Priest, and the Making of the Canterbury Tales”; Sarah Baechle, “Chaucer, the Continent, and the Characteristics of Commentary”; Peter Brown, “Hoccleve in Canterbury”; Stephen Partridge, “The Legacy of John Shirley: Revisiting Houghton MS Eng 530”; Nicolette Zeeman, “Foreword to Part VII”; Jill Mann, “Was the C-Reviser’s Manuscript Really So Corrupt?”; Melinda Nielsen, “Emending Oneself: Compilatio and Revisio in Landland, Usk, and Higden”; and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, “Confronting the Scribe-Poet Binary: The Z Text, Writing Office Redaction, and the Oxford Reading Circles.”

Larson, Katherine Rebecca, and Naomi J. Miller, eds. Re-Reading Mary Wroth. With Andrew Strycharski. Basingstoke: Palgave Macmillan, 2015. xiii + 298 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-137-47962-4.

Includes: Katherine R. Larson, Naomi J. Miller, and Andrew Strycharski, “Introduction: Re-Reading Mary Wroth: Networks of Knowing”; Margaret P. Hannay, “Sleuthing in the Archives: The Life of Lady Mary Wroth”; Barbara K. Lewalski, “Authorship and Author-Characters in Sidney and Wroth”; Mary Ellen Lamb, “‘Can you suspect a change in me?’: Poems by Mary Wroth and William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke”; Beverly M. Van Note, “Performing ‘fitter means’: Marriage and Authorship in Love’s Victory”; Clare R. Kinney, “Turn and Counter-Turn: Reappraising Mary Wroth’s Poetic Labyrinths”; Kristiane Stapleton, “Measuring Authorship: Framing Forms, Genres, and Authors in Urania”; Katherine R. Larson, “Voicing Lyric: The Songs of Mary Wroth”; Karen L. Nelson, “‘Change Partners and Dance’: Pastoral Virtuosity in Wroth’s Love’s Victory”; Madeline Bassnett, “Gifts of Fruit and Marriage Feasts in Mary Wroth’s Urania”; Ilona Bell, “The Autograph Manuscript of Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus”; Paul Salzmanm, “Me and My Shadow: Editing Wroth for the Digital Age”; Rebecca L. Fall, “Pamphilia Unbound: Digital Re-Visions of Mary Wroth’s Folger Manuscript, V.a.104”; Sheila T. Cavanagh, “Crowdsourcing the Urania: Lady Mary Wroth and Twenty-First-Century Technology”; Georgianna Ziegler, “Curating Mary Wroth”; Nona Fienberg, “Strange Labyrinths: Wroth, Higher Education, and the Humanities”; Gary Waller, “‘To beeleeve this but a fiction and dunn to please and pass the time’: Re-Imagining Mary Wroth and William Herbert in Feigning Poetry”; and Naomi J. Miller, “Re-Imagining the Subject: Traveling from Scholarship to Fiction with Mary Wroth.”

Lasansky, D. Medina, ed. The Renaissance: Revised, Expanded, Unexpurgated. Pittsburgh: Periscope Publishing, Ltd., 2014. 640 pp. $45. ISBN: 978-1-934772-25-6.

Includes: D. Medina Lasansky and Gloria Kury, “Revise, Expand, Unexpurgate”; Patricia Simons, “The Sex of Artists in Renaissance Italy”; James M. Saslow, “Inventing Michelangelo”; Anne Higonnet, “Raphael Redux”; Cristelle Baskins, “The Sopranos, Mannerist Painting, and Postmodern Television”; Brian A. Curran and Andrea Vera Raymond, “Pasquino, Blogging in the Streets of Rome”; D. Medina Lasansky, “Sacred Graffiti”; Ian Frederick Moulton, “The Way You Wear Your Hat”; Gloria Kury, “The Case of the Errant Art Historian”; Denise R. Costanzo, “The Medici McMansion?”; Carole Collier Frick, “The Golden Girl”; D. Medina Lasansky, “Better Than Venice”; Yael Manes, “The Power of Mother’s Milk”; Evelyn Lincoln, “Mattia Giegher Living”; Sarah Benson, “A Semester in Rome”; Catherine Wilkinson Zerner, “Mother Road”; Sarah Benson, “Looking at Sex, I Modi to Cosmo”; Gloria Kury, “Lovely and Lethal”; and Maria Galli Stampino, “Forgetting the Mediterranean.”

Lewis, Jayne, and Lisa Zunshine, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2013. x + 198 pp. $19.75. ISBN: 978-1-60329-126-2.

Includes: Jayne Lewis, “Part One: Materials”; Jayne Lewis, “Part Two: Approaches: Introduction”; Anna Battigelli, “John Dryden’s Trojan Horse: Religio Laici”; Cedric D. Reverand II, “Dryden the Elegist: ‘To the Memory of Mr. Oldham’ and ‘To the Pious Memory of . . . Anne Killigrew’”; John Richetti, “Reading Dryden’s Verse: Generic Control in the Killigrew Ode and Oldham Elegy”; Deborah Kennedy, “Dryden’s Sweet Saint: The Killigrew Ode in the Survey Course”; Christopher D. Johnson, “A King and No King: How to Use Dryden’s Engagement of the Reader in Absalom and Achitophel”; Kirstin R. Wilcox, “Absalom and Achitophel in an Eighteenth-Century Survey Course”; Ann A. Huse, “Restoring Dryden to the Core Curriculum: Groups, Crowds, and the Poetry of Public Occasion”; Scott R. MacKenzie, “Forward from ‘Mac Flecknoe’: British Literature, 1660 to the Present”; Margaret Anne Doody, “Introducing John Dryden the Dramatic”; Will Pritchard, “Teaching Marriage à-la-Mode in a Course on Restoration Comedy”; Daniel Gustafson and Elliott Visconsi, “Teaching Dryden’s Heroic Plays”; Blair Hoxby, “Teaching the Passions in All for Love”; Dianne Dugaw, “Multimedia Dryden: All for Love and a Performative Baroque Aesthetic”; Thomas F. Bonnell and Katie Sullivan, “A Potion for Secret Love”; Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Kathryn Lowerre, “‘Hither This Way’: Musical Dryden for Nonmusician Students (and Nonmusician Teachers)”; J. Caitlin Finlayson, “‘Originally Shakespear’s’: Adaptation, Critique, and All for Love and The Tempest”; Elizabeth Bobo, “The State of Innocence and Paradise Lost: The Politics of Adaptation”; Jennifer Brady, “Dryden and Rochester: Tracing Literary Rivalries in Dryden’s Prefatory Texts”; Aaron Santesso, “Forgetfulness and Authorial Presence in Dryden’s Prose”; Adam Potkay, “Teaching Dryden’s Latin Translations: Lucretius, Vergil, and the Honeybee”; and Philip Smallwood, “Questioning Nature: Dryden’s Fables, Ancient and Modern.”

Loewenstein, David, and Michael Witmore, eds. Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 318 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-02661-2.

Includes: David Loewenstein and Michael Witmore, “Introduction”; David Bevington, “The Debate about Shakespeare and Religion”; Peter Marshall, “Choosing Sides and Talking Religion in Shakespeare’s England”; Felicity Heal, “Experiencing Religion in London: Diversity and Choice in Shakespeare’s Metropolis”; Alison Shell, “Delusion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; Beatrice Groves, “The Siege of Jerusalem and Subversive Rhetoric in King John”; Peter Lake, “Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Search for a Usable (Christian?) Past”; Adrian Streete, “Lucretius, Calvin, and Natural Law in Measure for Measure”; David Loewenstein, “Agnostic Shakespeare?: The God-Less World of King Lear”; Ewan Fernie, “‘Another Golgotha’”; Michael Witmore, “Shakespeare and Wisdom Literature”; Richard McCoy, “Awakening Faith in The Winter’s Tale”; Paul Stevens, “Hamlet, Henry VIII, and the Question of Religion: A Post-Secular Perspective”; Michael Davies, “Converting Henry: Truth, History, and Historical Faith in Henry VIII”; Matthew Dimmock, “Shakespeare’s Non-Christian Religions”; and Brian Cummings, “Afterword.”

Marrapodi, Michele, ed. Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance: Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition. Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xiv + 374 pp. $129.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4839-2.

Includes: Michele Marrapodi, “Introduction: Shakespearean Subversions”; Harry Berger Jr., “Sprezzatura and Embarrassment in The Merchant of Venice”; John Roe, “A Niggle of Doubt: Courtliness and Chastity in Shakespeare and Castiglione”; Thomas Kullmann, “Dramatic Appropriations of Italian Courtliness”; Maria Del Sapio Garbero, “Disowning the Bond: Coriolanus’s Forgetful Humanism”; Melissa Walter, “Matteo Bandello’s Social Authorship and Paulina as Patroness in The Winter’s Tale”; Karen Zyck Galbraith, “Tracing a Villain: Typological Intertextuality in the Works of Painter, Webster, Cinthio, and Shakespeare”; Keir Elam, “‘Wanton pictures’: The Baffling of Christopher Sly and the Visual-Verbal Intercourse of Early Modern Erotic Arts”; Sergio Costola and Michael Saenger, “Shylock’s Venice and the Grammar of the Modern City”; Eric Nicholson, “Helen, the Italianate Theatrical Wayfarer of All’s Well That Ends Well”; Bruce W. Young, “‘These Times of Woe’: The Contraction and Dislocation of Time in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet”; Camilla Caporicci, “‘Dark is Light’ — From Italy to England: Challenging Tradition through Colours”; Iuliana Tanase, “The Italian Commedia and the Fashioning of the Shakespearean Fool”; Michele Marrapodi, “The Aretinean Intertext and the Heterodoxy of The Taming of the Shrew”; Lawrence F. Rhu, “Shakespeare Italianate: Sceptical Crises in Three Kinds of Play”; Hanna Scolnicov, “The Jew and the Justice of Venice”; Rocco Coronato, “Hamlet, Ortensio Lando, or ‘To Be or Not To Be’ Paradoxically Explained”; Duncan Salkeld, “Much Ado about Italians in Renaissance London”; and Anthony R. Guneratne, “Shakespeare, Italian Music-Drama, and Contemporary Performance: Space, Time, and the Acoustic Worlds of Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest.”

Meere, Michael, ed. French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2015. xxxii + 336 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-61149-548-5.

Includes: Andreea Marculescu, “Mystery Plays Reloaded: Performing Demonic Possession in the Histoires véritables”; John D. Lyons, “Abraham sacrifiant and the End of Ethics”; Caroline Gates and Michael Meere, “Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais’s Quart Livre: The Chiquanous Episode”; Sara Beam, “Calvinist ‘Comedie’ and Conversion during the French Reformation: La comedie du pape malade (1561) and La comedie du monde malade et mal pensé (1568)”; Corinne Noirot, “French Humanist Comedy in Search of an Audience: The Case of Jean de la Taille”; Ellen R. Welch, “Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle: Performance and Diplomacy under the Valois”; Antónia Szabari, “Our Future Barbarism: Sacrifice, the Body, and Performance in Robert Garnier’s Greek Tragedies”; Phillip John Usher, “Courtroom Drama during the Wars of Religion: Robert Garnier and the Paris Parlement”; Fabien Cavaillé, “From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne’s ‘Of the Education of Children’ (I.26) and ‘Of Coaches’ (III.6)”; Elizabeth Guild, “Too Late? The Drama of the Cannibals in Rouen”; Christian Biet, “Red and Black, Pink and Green: Jacques de Fonteny’s Gay Pastoral Play”; Sybile Chevallier-Micki, “Stage Designs of Cruelty: Theater in Rouen at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century”; Alison Calhoun, “The Court Turned Inside Out: The Collapse of Dignity in Louis XIII’s Burlesque Ballets”; Stephanie O’Hara, “Poison in French Tragedy and Tragic Stories, 1600–1636”; and Richard Hillman, “Et in Arcadia alter egos: Playing Politics with Pastoral in Two French Baroque Dramas.”

Melion, Walter S., Bret Rothstein, and Michel Weemans, eds. The Anthropomorphic Lens: Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism, and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 34. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxviii + 522 pp. $194. ISBN 978-90-04-26170-9.

Includes: Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prévost, “Introduction”; Anne-Laure van Bruaene, “Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt”; Christina Normore, “Monkey in the Middle”; Paul J. Smith, “Landscape and Body in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel”; Miya Tokumitsu, “The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World”; Nathalie de Brézé, “Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed”; Marisa Bass, “Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel’s Emblematic Art”; Aneta Georgievska-Shine, “The Album Amicorum and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq”; Pamela Merrill Brekka, “Picturing the ‘Living’ Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible”; Sarah R. Kyle, “A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the Carrara Herbal”; Elke Anna Werner, “Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse”; Walter S. Melion, “Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600”; Ralph Dekoninck, “Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol”; Elizabeth J. Petcu, “Anthropomorphizing the Orders: ‘Terms’ of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance”; Bertrand Prévost, “Visage-paysage: Problème de peinture”; Christopher P. Heuer, “Nobody’s Bruegel”; Larry Silver, “Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel”; Bret L. Rothstein, “Jan van Hemessen’s Anatomy of Parody”; and Michel Weemans, “The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery’s Sacrifice of Cain and Abel for Louis Richeome’s Tableaux Sacrez (1601).”

Miller, Joseph C., Vincent Brown, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Laurent Dubois, and Karen Ordahl Kupperman, eds. The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxxvi + 532 pp. $65. ISBN: 978-0-691-14853-3.

Includes: Joseph C. Miller, “Prologue”; Joseph C. Miller, “The Sixteenth Century”; Karen Ordahl Kupperman, “The Seventeenth Century”; Vincent Brown, “The Eighteenth Century”; and Laurent Dubois, “The Nineteenth Century.”

Monta, Susannah Brietz, and Margaret W. Ferguson, eds. Teaching Early Modern English Prose. Modern Language Association of America: Options for Teaching. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2010. x + 384 pp. $25. ISBN: 978-1-60329-053-1.

Includes: Margaret W. Ferguson and Susannah Brietz Monta, “Introduction”; Ronald Corthell, “What Is Early Modern Nonfictional Prose?”; Lauryn S. Mayer, “Cultivating the Commons: Early Modern Rhetoric, Pamphlet Writing, and the Undergraduate Reader”; Mary Moore, “Desiring Styles: Renaissance Prose Styles and Teaching by Imitation”; Lori Anne Ferrell, “Religious Persuasions: Teaching the Early Modern Sermon”; Peter C. Herman, “Early Modern Prose and the Uses of the New World”; Susannah Brietz Monta, “Teaching with Passions; or, Bringing Martyrologies into the Classroom”; Kate Lilley, “Dedicated Thought: Montaigne, Bacon, and the English Renaissance Essay”; Mary Ellen Lamb, “Teaching Early Modern Autobiographies and Life Writings”; Christopher Ivic, “Reading Tudor Chronicles”; Roger E. Moore, “Quaker Writing in the Seventeenth Century”; Mary Beth Rose, “A Voyage on a Dangerous Sea: Marriage as Heroism in Early Modern English Prose”; Gary Schneider, “Teaching Early Modern Letters”; Eric Sterling, “Teaching Gascoigne, Deloney, and the Emergence of the English Novel”; Donald Stump, “Reforming the Greek Tragic Hero: Narrative Trickery and Gender Reversal in Sidney’s Old Arcadia”; Leah S. Marcus, “Speech Made Visible: The Writings of Queen Elizabeth I”; Margaret W. Ferguson, “Thomas Nashe: Conrucopias and Gallimaufries of Prose”; P.G. Stanwood, “Community and Context in Richard Hooker’s Prose”; Elizabeth Hodgson, “‘Amorous Metaphors’: John Donne’s Prose”; Sheila T. Cavanagh, “The Long and Winding Road: Teaching Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania”; Deborah E. Harkness, “Francis Bacon’s Experimental Writing”; Stephen M. Fallon, “Discovering Milton in His Prose”; Claire Preston, “Stand-Up Browne: Religio Medici in the Classroom”; Robert E. Stillman, “Mastering the Monster Text: Teaching Hobbes’s Leviathan”; Thomas Corns, “‘On Thursday Giant Despair Beats His Prisoners’: Teaching Bunyan in an Unsympathetic Age”; Terry Reilly, “Teaching Lyly’s Euphuism through William Harrison’s The Description of England: History, Parody, and Dialogic Form”; Catherine R. Eskin, “Literary Figures: Lodge’s Rosalynd in the Undergraduate Classroom”; Erin Murphy, “Infectious Knowledge: Teaching the Educational Tracts of John Milton and Mary Astell”; Deborah Uman, “Translation, Nationalism, and Imperialism: Teaching Aphra Behn’s ‘Essay on Translated Prose’ and A Discovery of New Worlds”; Gregory Kneidel, “Teaching the Early Modern Bible, Fully and Perfectly”; and Margaret W. Ferguson, Susannah Brietz Monta, Magdalena Nerio, Genevieve Pearson, and Vanessa Rapatz, “Selected Resources for Teachers.”

Neuber, Wolfgang, Thomas Rahn, and Claus Zittel, eds. The Making of Copernicus: Early Modern Transformations of the Scientist and His Science. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 36. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xvi + 332 pp. $149. ISBN: 978-90-04-28110-3.

Includes: Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn, and Claus Zittel, “Introduction: The Making of Copernicus”; Stefan Kirschner and Andreas Kühne, “The Decline of Medieval Disputation Culture and the ‘Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory’”; Gereon Wolters, “The Silence of the Wolves, Or, Why it Took the Holy Inquisition Seventy-Three Years to Ban Copernicanism”; Dana Jalobeanu, “A Natural History of the Heavens: Francis Bacon’s Anti-Copernicanism”; Tamás Demeter, “Hume’s Copernican Turn”; Jonathan Schüz, “Arguing for One’s World: Copernicus’s Theories and Their Reception in Jean Bodins Theatrum”; Steffen Schneider, “Writing after Copernicus: Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper”; Thomas Rahn, “Die Erde als Mond: Kopernikanische Wenden in Raumreiserzählungen des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kepler, Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac)”; Lucía Ayala, “Decentralisation of the Sun as Beginning of Modernity: The Transition from Copernicanism to the Plurality of Worlds in French Engravings”; Sergius Kodera, “Timid Mathematicians vs. Daring Explorers of the Infinite Cosmos: Giordano Bruno, Literary Self-Fashioning and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium”; Claus Zittel, “‘Copernicus Found a Treasure the True Value of Which He Did Not Know at All’: The Life of Copernicus by Pierre Gassendi”; Wolfang Neuber, “Hero of the Bourgeois World: Copernicus and His Afterlife in German Literature”; and Jörg Jungmayr, “Max Brod: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott.”

Noble Wood, Oliver, and Nigel Griffin, eds. A Poet for All Seasons: Eight Commentaries on Góngora. Spanish Series 156. New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2013. viii + 320 pp. $50. ISBN: 978-1-56954-152-4.

Includes: Oliver Noble Wood, “‘Ensílenme el asno rucio’ (1585): Parody and Burlesque in a contrafactum”; Jeremy Lawrance, “‘Mal haya el que en señores idolatra’ (1609): Poetry of Gardens and Solitude”; Nigel Griffin, “‘En roscas de cristal serpiente breve’ (1611?): Image, Colour, and Meaning”; Colin Thompson, “‘Sobre una alfombra que imitara en vano’: Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (1612): 313–36: Boldness, Metaphor, and Wit”; Jeremy Lawrance, “‘El yugo de ambos sexos sacudido’: Soledad I (1612–1613): 237-83: Góngora’s Commentators and the Rites of Spring”; Ronald Truman, “‘De lágrimas los tiernos ojos llenos’: Soledad I: 360–506: The político serrano’s Discourse”; Daniel Waissbein, “‘No son todos ruiseñores’ (1609–1616?): Music and Meaning”; and Colin Thompson, “The Late Sonnets (1623): ‘En este occidental, en este, oh Licio’ and ‘Menos solicitó veloz saeta’: On the Last Things.”

Pérez Fernández, José María, and Edward Wilson-Lee, eds. Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xii + 272 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1- 107-08004-1.

Includes: José María Pérez Fernández and Edward Wilson-Lee, “Introduction”; Paul White, “Marketing Adaptations of the Ship of Fools: The Stultiferae naves (1501) and Navis stultifera (1505) of Jodocus Badius Ascensius”; José María Pérez Fernández, “Translation, Sermo Communis, and the Book Trade”; Rocío G. Sumillera, “Language Manuals and the Book Trade in England”; Miguel Martínez, “The Heroes in the World’s Marketplace: Translating and Printing Epic in Renaissance Antwerp”; Daniel DiMassa, “The Politics of Translation and the German Reception of Dante: Johannes Herold’s Monarchey”; Guyda Armstrong, “Translation Trajectories in Early Modern European Print Culture: The Case of Boccaccio”; Edward Wilson-Lee, “Glosses and Oracles: Guiding Readers in Early Modern Europe”; Stewart Mottram, “Spenser’s Dutch Uncles: The Family of Love and the Four Translations of A Theatre for Worldlings”; Simona Munari, “Translation, Re- Writing and Censorship during the Counter-Reformation”; Louise Wilson, “The Publication of Iberian Romance in Early Modern Europe”; and Neil Rhodes, “Afterword.”

Perlove, Shelley, and George S. Keyes, eds. Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. xii + 306 pp. $150. ISBN: 978-0-268-03843-4.

Includes: Shelley Perlove, “Introduction: Discovering and Rediscovering Gems of the Midwest: Drawings from the Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin”; Babette Bohn, “The Italian School: From Idea to Creation: Seventeenth-Century Italian Drawings in the Midwest”; George S. Keyes, “The Dutch School: Documenting the World on Paper”; Kristi A. Nelson, “The Flemish School: Flemish Drawings”; and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., “The French School: From Mannerism to Rubenism: Aspects of Drawing in Seventeenth-Century France.”

Prescott, Anne Lake, William A. Oram, and Andrew Escobedo, eds. Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, XXIX. Spenser Studies 29. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2014. 332 pp. ISBN: 978-0- 404-19229-7.

Includes: David Lee Miller, “The Kathleen Williams Lecture 2014: The Chastity of Allegory”; David J. Baker, “Britain Redux”; Talya Meyers, “Saracens in Faeryland”; Robert Lanier Reid, “Sansloy’s Double Meaning and the Mystic Design of Spenser’s Legend of Holiness”; Katharine Cleland, “English National Identity and the Reformation Problem of Clandestine Marriage in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I”; Russ Leo, “Medievalism without Nostalgia: Guyon’s Swoon and the English Reformation Descensus ad Inferos”; Jerrod Rosenbaum, “Spenser’s Merlin Rehabilitated”; Kelly Lehtonen, “The Abjection of Malbecco: Forgotten Identity in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity”; Robert W. Tate, “Haunted by Beautified Beauty: Tracking the Images of Spenser’s Florimell(s)”; Jeffrey B. Griswold, “Allegorical Consent: The Faerie Queene and the Politics of Erotic Subjection”; Matthew Harrison, “The Rude Poet Presents Himself: Breton, Spenser, and Bad Poetry”; Ruth Kaplan, “The Problem of Pity in Spenser’s Ruines of Time and Amoretti”; Jean R. Brink, “Publishing Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland: From Matthew Lownes and Thomas Man (1598) to James Ware (1633)”; Gillian Hubbard, “The Folly of Proverbs and the Mammon of Book II of The Faerie Queene”; and Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, “The Meaning of ‘Imply’ in The Faerie Queene III.vi.34.”

Saenger, Michael, ed. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. xii + 278 pp. $32.95. ISBN: 978-0-7735-4474-1.

Includes: Michael Saenger, “Introduction”; Elizabeth Pentland, “Shakespeare, Navarre, and Continental History”; Philip Schwyzer, “‘The Lady speaks in Welsh’: Henry IV, Part 1 as Multilingual Drama”; Gary K. Waite, “Where Did the Devil Go? Religious Polemic in the Dutch Reformation, 1580–1630”; Scott Newstok, “Loving and Cherishing ‘True English’: Shakespeare’s Twinomials”; Robert N. Watson, “Shakespeare’s Coining of Words”; Patricia Parker, “Shakespeare’s Sound Government: Sound Defects, Polyglot Sounds, and Sounding Out”; Lauren Coker, “Continental Sexuality and the Auditory Construction of Early Modern Englishness”; Paula Blank, “Introducing ‘Intrelinguistics’: Shakespeare and Early /Modern English”; Brian Gingrich, “Monument, Mountain, Root: Figures of Translation, from Romeo to Julia”; Alexa Huang, “Shakespearean Performance as a Multilingual Event: Alterity, Authenticity, Liminality”; and James Loehlin, “Afterword.”

Salzman, Paul, and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Mary Wroth and Shakespeare. Routledge Studies in Shakespeare 11. New York: Routledge, 2015. vi + 172 pp. $140. ISBN: 978-1-138-78303-4.

Includes: Paul Salzman and Marion Wynne-Davies, “Introduction”; Ilona Bell, “Sugared Sonnets among their Private Friends: Mary Wroth and William Shakespeare”; Clare R. Kinney, “Escaping the Void: Isolation, Mutuality and Community in the Sonnets of Wroth and Shakespeare”; Penny McCarthy, “Autumn 1604: Documentation and Literary Coincidence”; Gayle Gaskill, “Mary Wroth and William Shakespeare: A Conversation in Sonnets”; Marion Wynne-Davies, “Absent Fathers: Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory and William Shakespeare’s King Lear”; Akiko Kusunoki, “Wroth’s Love Victory as a Response to Shakespeare’s Representation of Gender Distinctions: With Special Reference to Romeo and Juliet”; Alison Findlay, “Four Weddings, Two Funerals and Tragicomic Resurrection: Love’s Victory and Much Ado About Nothing”; Amelia Zurcher, “Civility and Extravagance in Timon of Athens and Urania”; Paul J. Hecht, “Rosalind and Wroth: Tyranny and Domination”; Paul Salzman, “Love’s Victory, Pastoral, Gender, and As You Like It”; Naomi J Miller, “As She Likes It: Same-Sex Friendship and Romantic Love in Wroth and Shakespeare”; and Mary Ellen Lamb, “Afterword.”

Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xvii + 226 pp. $104.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3587-3.

Includes: Jeffrey Chipps Smith, “Introduction”; Allison Stielau, “Intent and Independence: Late Fifteenth-Century Object Engravings”; Bridget Heal, “Seeing Christ: Visual Piety in Saxony’s Erzgebirge”; Susanne Meurer, “Johann Neudörffer’s Nachrichten (1547): Calligraphy and Historiography in Early Modern Nuremberg”; Andrew Morrall, “Apprehending the Macrocosm: The Universe Cup of Jonas Silber and its Sources”; Ruth Slenczka, “Lucas Cranach the Younger’s Funeral Sermon as a Lutheran Treatise on Art”; Alexander J. Fisher, “A Musical Dialogue in Bronze: Gregor Aichinger’s Lacrumae (1604) and Hans Reichle’s Crucifixion Group for the Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg”; Anthony Mahler, “The Acute Gaze of Argos: Enargeia as Sinful Vision and Psychagogic Technique in Bidermann’s Cenodoxus”; Arne Spohr, “‘This Charming Invention Created by the King’: Christian IV and His Concealed Music”; Volker Bauer, “Dynastic Botany: Banyans, Cedars, and Palms as Visual Models in Seventeenth-Century Genealogy”; and Kristoffer Neville, “Royal and Roman in the Rebuilding of Berlin c. 1700.”

Stighelen, Katlijne van der, Leen Kelchtermans, and Koenraad Brosens, eds. Embracing Brussels: Art and Culture in the Court City, 1600–1800. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 278 pp. €75. ISBN: 978-2- 503-54228-7.

Includes: Veerle De Laet, “At Home in Seventeenth-Century Brussels: Patterns of Art and Luxury Consumption in Private Households”; Harald Deceulaer, “Fashion, Innovation and Regional Distribution: The Clothing Trades in Brussels, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries”; Karel Porteman, “A Few Literary-Historical vedute of Seventeenth-Century Brussels”; Piet Stryckers, “Music and Music Production in Seventeenth-Century Brussels”; Leen Kelchtermans, “Adellijke promotie verbeeld: Peter Snayers’ portretten van Alexandre Hippolythe de Bournonville voor zijn Brusselse stadspaleis”; Jean-Philippe Huys, “Contribution à l’art de cour à Bruxelles autour de 1700: Notes sur des artistes au service de l’électeur Maximilien II Emmanuel de Bavière”; Catherine Phillips, “Count Charles Cobenzl (1712–1770), Promoting the Arts and Learning in the Austrian Netherlands”; Elisabeth Bruyns, “L’encadrement des peintures à Bruxelles au dix-septième siècle”; Beatrijs Wolters van der Wey, “‘A la recherche du temps passé’: Het belang van contextualisering voor de interpretatie van zeventiende-eeuwse Brusselse ambachts- en gildeportretten”; Eelco Nagelsmit, “Miracles Made to Measure: Theodoor van Loon’s Altarpieces for the Brussels Grand Beguinage”; Dries Lyna, “‘La peinture ne flattoit plus les personnes’: Private Collections of Paintings in Eighteenth-Century Brussels”; Pierre-Yves Kairis, “Bruxelles – Liège et retour dans la peinture du dix-septième siècle”; Leen Kelchtermans, “Brussel – Leeuwarden: Nieuwe gegevens over de Brusselse schilders Lancelot en Louis Volders”; Koenraad Brosens en Guy Delmarcel, “Landschappen met jachttaferelen door Norbert Van Bloemen en Pieter Rysbrack (c. 1700): Brusselse wandtapijten ‘à l’anversoise’”; and Maartje De Wilde, “Sound and Soul: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century Musical and Literary Life in Brussels.”

Whitman, Jon, ed. Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 92. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 318 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-107-04278-0.

Includes: Jon Whitman, “Romance and History: Designing the Times”; Christopher Baswell, “Fearful Histories: The Past Contained in the Romances of Antiquity”; Catherine Croizy-Naquet, “Troy and Rome, Two Narrative Presentations of History in the Thirteenth Century: The Roman de Troie en prose and the Faits des Romains”; Robert W. Hanning, “Inescapable History: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain and Arthurian Romances of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”; Adrian Stevens, “Gottfried, Wolfram, and the Angevins: History, Genealogy, and Fiction in the Tristan and Parzival Romances”; Friedrich Wolfzettel, “Fictional History as Ideology: Functions of the Grail Legend from Robert de Boron to the Roman de Perceforest”; Edward Donald Kennedy, “The Prose Brut, Hardyng’s Chronicle, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure: The End of the Story”; Helen Cooper, “Arthur in Transition: Malory’s Morte Darthur”; Jean-Pierre Martin, “The Chanson de geste as a Construction of Memory”; Riccardo Bruscagli, “Ruggiero’s Story: The Making of a Dynastic Hero”; Marco Praloran, “Temporality and Narrative Structure in European Romance from the Late Fifteenth Century to the Early Sixteenth Century”; Daniel Javitch, “The Disparagement of Chivalric Romance for its Lack of Historicity in Sixteenth-Century Italian Poetics”; David Quint, “Romance and History in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata”; Gordon Teskey, “The Thinking of History in Spenserian Romance”; Marina S. Brownlee, “La Cava: Romance and History in Corral and Cervantes”; and Jon Whitman, “Afterword and Afterward: Romance, History, Time.”

Ziolkowski, Jan M., ed. Dante and Islam. Dante’s World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. x + 372 pp. $28. ISBN: 978-0-8232- 6387-5.

Includes: Jan Ziolkowski, “Introduction”; Vincente Cantarino, “Dante and Islam: History and Analysis of a Controversy”; Maria Corti, “Dante and Islamic Culture”; José Martínez Gázquez, “Translations of the Qur’an and Other Islamic Texts before Dante (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)”; Thomas E. Burman, “How an Italian Friar Read His Arabic Qur’an”; Brenda Deen Schildgen, “Philosophers, Theologians, and the Islamic Legacy in Dante: Inferno 4 versus Paradiso 4”; Gregory B. Stone, “Dante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination”; Daniela Boccassini, “Falconry as a Transmutative Art: Dante, Frederick II, and Islam”; Maria Esposito Frank, “Dante’s Muhammad: Parallels between Islam and Arianism”; Karla Mallette, “Muhammad in Hell”; John Totlan, “Mendicants and Muslims in Dante’s Florence”; Giorgio Battistoni, “Dante and the Three Religions”; and David Abulafia, “The Last Muslims in Italy.”