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Renaissance Quarterly Books Received, October–December 2012 Renaissance Quarterly Books Received, October–December 2012 Azzolini, Monica. The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan . I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. xiii + 370 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–06663–2. Bailey, Merridee L. Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400–1600 . Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2012. ix + 270 pp. $90. ISBN: 978–1–903153–42–0. Becker, Karin. Le lyrisme d’Eustache Deschamps: Entre poésie et pragmatisme . Recherches littéraires médiévales 12. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. 264 pp. €29. ISBN: 978–2–8124– 0609–6. Bednarz, James P. Shakespeare and the Truth of Love: The Mystery of “The Phoenix and Turtle.” Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. x + 252 pp. $80. ISBN: 978–0–230–31940–0. Benedict, Philip, and Nicolas Fornerod, eds. L’organisation et l’action des églises réformées de France: Synodes provinciaux et autres documents . Archives des églises réformées de France 3. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2012. cxxviii + 362 pp. $132. ISBN: 978–2–600–01603–2. Bertram, Martin, ed. Kanonisten und ihre Texte (1234 bis Mitte 14. Jh.): 18 Aufsätze und 14 Exkurse . Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 43. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxiii + 654 pp. $258. ISBN: 978–90–04–22876–4. Bevegnati, Giunta, and Thomas Renna. The Life and Miracles of Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297) . Saint Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2012. 344 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978–1–57659–301–1. Biemann, Asher D. Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xvii + 180 pp. $50. ISBN: 978–0–8047–6881–8. Blanchard, Joël, ed. Procès de Jacques d’Armagnac: édition critique du ms. 2000 de la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève . Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 510. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2012. cxxv + 968 pp. $144. ISBN: 978–2–600–01695–7. La Boétie, Estienne de. Discourse on Voluntary Servitude . Ed. James B. Atkinson. Trans. James B. Atkinson and David Sices. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2012. xlviii + 46 pp. $7.95. ISBN: 978–1–60384–839–8. Boswell, Jackson Campbell, and Gordon McMurry Braden, eds. Petrarch’s English Laurels, 1475–1700: A Compendium of Printed References and Allusions . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. 598 pp. $134.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–0118–6. Botero, Giovanni. On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities . Trans. Geoffrey Symcox. The Lorenzo da Ponte Library Series. University of Toronto Press, 2012. xxxix + 94 pp. $45. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4507–3. Bradstock, Andrew. Radical Religion in Cromwell’s England: A Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth . International Library of Historical Studies 58. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. xxvi + 190 pp. + 12 bw pls. £52.50. ISBN: 978–1–84511–764–1. Bryson, Michael. The Atheist Milton . Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. 184 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978–1–4094–4701–6. Bunge, Wiep van. Spinoza Past and Present: Essays on Spinoza, Spinozism, and Spinoza Scholarship . Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 215. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xi + 256 pp. $146. ISBN: 978–90–04–23137–5. Byrne, Susan. Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Toronto Iberic 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xv + 240 pp. $55. ISBN: 978–1–4426–4527–1. Campi, Emidio, and Philipp Wälchli, eds. Basler Kirchenordnungen 1528–1675 . Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2012. xxxiii + 602 pp. €100. ISBN: 978–3–290–17629–7. Cantagrel, Laurent. Discours lettré et transformations sociopolitiques au début du XVIe siècle . Études et essais sur la Renaissance 97. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. 336 pp. €36. ISBN: 978– 2–8124–0573–0. Caravale, Giorgio. Predicazione e inquisizione nell’Italia del Cinquecento: Ippolito Chizzola tra eresia e controversia antiprotestante . Studi fonti documenti di storia e letteratura religiosa. Bologna: Il mulino, 2012. 306 pp. €23. ISBN: 978–88–15–24103–0. Cary, Elizabeth Tanfield. The Mirror of the Worlde: A Translation . Ed. Lesley Peterson. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. xxiv + 248 pp. $95. ISBN: 978–0–7735– 4072–9. Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry . Ed. Ramona Wray. Arden Early Modern Drama. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2012. xviii + 234 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 978–1– 90427–159–8. Christofides, R. M. Shakespeare and the Apocalypse: Visions of Doom from Early Modern Tragedy to Popular Culture . Continuum Shakespeare Studies. London: Continuum, 2012. xvii + 216 pp. $110. ISBN: 978–1–4411–7994–4. Clabaigh OSB, Colmán Ó. The Friars in Ireland, 1224–1540 . Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. xxv + 390 pp. €29.95. ISBN: 978–1–84682–225–4. Cocco, Sean. Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xi + 322 pp. $45. ISBN: 978–0–226–92371–0. Cornelison, Sally J. Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence . Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xv + 358 pp. + 13 color pls. $119.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6714–8. Crane, Susan. Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. vii + 270 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 978– 0–8122–4458–8. Crossley, Alan, ed. Oxford City Apprentices, 1513–1602 . Oxford Historical Society New Series 44. Oxford: Oxford Historical Society, 2012. lix + 366 pp. + 5 b/w pls. $60. ISBN: 978–0– 904107–25–8. Cullen, L. M. Economy, Trade, and Irish Merchants at Home and Abroad, 1600–1988 . Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. 320 pp. €55. ISBN: 978–1–84682–319–0. Curtright, Travis. The One Thomas More . Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2012. xi + 232 pp. $64.95. ISBN: 978–0–8132–1995–0. van Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans. Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture . Studies in Renaissance Literature 31. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. xii + 272 pp. $99. ISBN: 978–1–843–84330–6. Dion, Nicholas. Entre les larmes et l’effroi: la tragédie classique française, 1677–1726 . Lire le XVIIe siècle 14. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. 466 pp. €48. ISBN: 978–2–8124–0607–2. Döpp, Siegmar. Neulateinische Wissenschaftspoesie: Ioanes Fabricius Montanus (1527–1566) über Engadiner Heilquellen . Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, 2012. 92 pp. €5. ISBN: 978–3– 939526–19–3. Dyer, Christopher. A Country Merchant, 1495–1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiv + 256 pp. £65. ISBN: 978–0–19– 921424–2. Embree, Dan, Edward Donald Kennedy, and Kathleen Daly, eds. Short Prose Scottish Chronicles . Medieval Chronicles 5. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012. ix + 396 pp. $99. ISBN: 978–1–84383–745–9. Enders, Jody, ed. The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. xv + 478 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978–08122–4323–9. Erasmus, Desiderius. Controversies: Clarifications Concerning the Censures Published at Paris in the Name of the Theology Faculty There . Ed. Clarence H. Miller. Collected Works of Erasmus 82. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xxxvii + 362 pp. $175. ISBN: 978–1–4426– 4115–0. Faust, Joan. Andrew Marvell’s Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between . Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012. x + 234 pp. $75. ISBN: 978–1–61149–410–5. Ficino, Marsilio. The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 9 . London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2012. xxi + 154 pp. £25. ISBN: 978–0–85683–289–5. Fischart, Johann. Sämtliche Werke, Band II: Eulenspiegel reimenweis . Eds. Ulrich Seelbach and W. Eckehart Spengler. Berliner Ausgaben; Sektion Philologische Wissenschaften. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstadt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2002. 436 pp. €285. ISBN: 978–3–7728–1837–0. Fischart, Johann. Sämtliche Werke, Band III: Das sechste Buch vom Amadis (1572) . Ed. Ulrich Seelbach. Berliner Ausgaben; Sektion Philologische Wissenschaften. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstadt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2012. 368 pp. €248. ISBN: 978–3–7728–1838–7. Furlotti, Barbara. A Renaissance Baron and His Possessions: Paolo Giordano I Orsini, Duke of Bracciano (1541–1585) . Cursor Mundi 15. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. xxviii + 334 pp. €100. ISBN: 978–2–503–53474–9. Du Gardin, Louis. Les Premières Addresses du chemin de Parnasse . Eds. Emmanuel Buron and Guillaume Peureux. Bibliothèque du XVIIe siècle 8; Langue, rhétorique et poétique françaises 1. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. 328 pp. €38. ISBN: 978–2–8124–0390–3. Gertz, Genelle. Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400–1670 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. x + 258 pp. $95. ISBN: 978–1–107–01705–4. Grze śkowiak-Krwawicz, Anna. Queen Liberty: The Concept of Freedom in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth . Studies in Central European Histories 56. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 136 pp. $138. ISBN: 978–90–04–23121–4. Gwynne, Paul. Poets and Princes: The Panegyric Poetry of Johannes Michael Nagonius . Courts: Medieval and Renaissance Court Cultures 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. xxiv + 544 pp. €150. ISBN: 978–2–503–53160–1. Heale, Elizabeth, ed. The Devonshire Manuscript: A Women’s Book of Courtly Poetry . The Other Voices in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 19. Toronto: Iter, 2012. xiii + 278 pp. $24.50. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2128–0. Hille, Christiane. Visions of the Courtly Body: The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court . München: Akademie Verlag, 2012. ix + 302 pp. €49.80. ISBN: 978–3–05–005908–2. Hirst, Derek, and Steven N. Zwicker. Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi + 198 pp. $99. ISBN: 978–0–19–965537–3. James, Susan. Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 348 pp. $55. ISBN: 978–0–19–969812–7.
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