Recently added articles from Renaissance Quarterly:
Preaching magnificence in Renaissance Florence.
Jun 22, 2008; ... 1. INTRODUCTION Sant' Antonino Pierozzi (1389-1459)--Dominican Friar, reformer, author of a monumental, influential, and widely circulated Summa Theologica, friend and critic of the powerful Medici family--begins the sermon he preached on his accession to the Archbishopric of ...
Printing ritual: the performance of community in Christopher Plantin's La Joyeuse & Magnifique Entree de Monseigneur Francoys ... d'Anjou.(Cover story)
Jun 22, 2008; ... 1. INTRODUCTION In April 1582, the Antwerp publisher Christopher Plantin (1514-89) produced an elaborate folio illustrated with twenty-one etchings and engravings in order to commemorate the blijde inkomst (joyous entry) of Hercule Francois de Valois, Duke d'Anjou and Alencon ...
The pursuit of art and pleasure in the secret grotto of Wilhelm V of Bavaria.
Jun 22, 2008; ... 1. INTRODUCTION Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria (r. 1579-97) abdicated in favor of his son Maximilian (1573-1651) in 1597, leaving behind a mountain of debt, but also a legacy of extravagant art patronage. Under Wilhelm's reign, the capital city of Munich attracted artists from all ...
Ideal men: masculinity and decline in seventeenth-century Spain.
Jun 22, 2008; ... 1. INTRODUCTION In a sermon preached in 1635 in Baena, the Dominican Francisco de Leon makes a series of startling statements about the men of his day. "Where are there men in Spain?" he queries angrily. "What I see are effeminate men ... I see men converted into women." (1) ...
L'inquietudine del Quattrocento.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Remo L. Guidi. L'inquietudine del Quattrocento. Rome: Tielle Media, 2007. 1,118 pp. index. bibl. [euro]92. ISBN: 978-88-87604-32-0. This is Remo Guidi's second book on moral thought in the Quattrocento. The first, Il dibattito sull'uomo nel '400, which appeared in ...
Platonic Theology.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Eds. James Hankins and William Bowen. Trans. Michael J. B. Allen. Vol. 5, Books 15-16. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 353 pp. index, append. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01719-6. Vol ....
The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Marianne Pade. The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2007. 644 pp. + 18 color pls. index. append. illus. bibl. $105. ISBN: 978-87-635-0532-1. Plutarch's Lives were essential reading in the Italian Renaissance, ...
Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Peter Stacey. Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince. Ideas in Context 79. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix + 341 pp. index. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978-0-521-86989-8. This informative and provocative study has two essential aims: to reposition Machiavelli ...
L'Aretin et la Bible.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Elise Boillet. L'Aretin et la Bible. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 425. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2007. 587 pp. index. illus. bibl. CHF 150. ISBN: 978-2-600-01058-0. The years 1534 and 1535 were prolific for writer Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), best known to ...
Istruire e rappresentare Isabella d'Este: Il Libro de natura de amore di Mario Equicola.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Alessandra Villa. Istruire e rappresentare Isabella d'Este: Il Libro de natura de amore di Mario Equicola. "Morgiana": Collana di Studi e Teste Rinascimentali Diretta da Lina Bolzoni 9. Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2006. 302 pp. + 4 color pls. index. append. illus. gloss ....
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Elissa B. Weaver. Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women. Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Reprint. index. append. illus. bibl. $52. ISBN: 978-0-521-03902-4. Thanks to ...
Filippo Cavagni da Lavagna: Editore, tipografo, commerciante a Milano nel Quattrocento.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Arnaldo Ganda. Filippo Cavagni da Lavagna: Editore, tipografo, commerciante a Milano nel Quattrocento. Storia della tipografia e del commercio librario 7. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2006. 290 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]29. ISBN: 978-88-222-5571-6. The ...
Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany: Teachers, Pupils and Schools, c. 1250-1500.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Robert Black. Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany: Teachers, Pupils and Schools, c. 1250-1500. Vol. 1. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 29. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxvii + 838 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. $199. ISBN: 978-90-04-15853-5. ...
The Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Fabrizio Ricciardelli. The Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 12. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2007. xiv + 294 pp. index. gloss. bibl. [euro]60. ISBN: 978-2-503-52389-7. Ricciardelli's intent is to investigate ...
Potere e carita a Montevarchi nel XVI secolo: Storia di un centro minore della Toscana medicea.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Lorenzo Picciolo. Potere e carita a Montevarchi nel XVI secolo: Storia di un centro minore della Toscana medicea. Biblioteca di Storia Toscana Moderna e Contemporanea Studi e Documenti 53. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2006. vii + 390 pp. index, append. illus. tbls. chron. bibl ....
Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... David S. Chambers. Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2006. xxii + 234 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978-1-84511-178-6. Few scholars possess as intimate a knowledge of the ...
Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome: Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534-1549.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Francesco Guidi Bruscoli. Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome: Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534-1549. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xxvi + 313 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-0732-8. When Benvenuto Olivieri took his first ...
The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373-1457.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Dennis Romano. The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373-1457. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xxvi + 468 pp. + 11 color and 45 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978-0-300-11202-3. Rarely do books live up to their enthusiastic ...
Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Trevor Dean. Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 226 pp. index. bibl. $99. ISBN: 978-0-521-86448-0. Investigating crime offers tantalizing opportunities to study underrepresented elements of society, but this ...
Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Niccolo Capponi. Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. xxxvi + 412 pp. + 16 b/w pls. index. append. map. gloss. bibl. $27.50. ISBN: 978-0-306-81544-7. Emperor Heraclius (r. 610-41), leading ...