Recently added articles from Renaissance Quarterly:
Women and the politics of play in sixteenth-century Italy: Torquato Tasso's theory of games.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... 1. INTRODUCTION In his popular encyclopedia, La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo (1585), Tomaso Garzoni includes a chapter on "Game-Players" among his comprehensive catalogue of vocations and avocations. Surveying ancient public games, chess, cards, dice, all ...
Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Filippo L. C. de Vivo. Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. vii + 312 pp. index. tbls. map. bibl. $120. ISBN: 978-0-19-922706-8. There is no surer sign that a new study in the social sciences ...
Bulla, Legatus, Nuntius: Etudes de diplomatique et de diplomatie pontificales ([XIII.sup.e]-[XVII.sup.e] siecle).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Bernard Barbiche. Bulla, Legatus, Nuntius: Etudes de diplomatique et de diplomatie pontificales ([XIII.sup.e]-[XVII.sup.e] siecle). Memoires et documents de I'Ecole des Chartes 85. Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2007. 576 pp. index. illus. tbls. [euro]55. ISBN: 978-2-900791-95-0. ...
The Cosmographia of Sebastian Munster: Describing the World in the Reformation.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Matthew McLean. The Cosmographia of Sebastian Munster: Describing the World in the Reformation. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. viii + 378 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5843-6. Sebastian ...
Giovanni Lanfredini: Uomo d'affari e diplomatico nell'Italia del Quattrocento.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Elisabetta Scarton. Giovanni Lanfredini: Uomo d'affari e diplomatico nell'Italia del Quattrocento. Biblioteca Storica Toscana 52. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. xiv + 356 pp. + 2 b/w pls. index. tbls. bibl. [euro]37. ISBN: 978-88-222-5662-1. Specialists regard ...