Renaissance Quarterly back issues from December 2006:
Utopia through Italian eyes: Thomas More and the critics of civic humanism.
Dec 22, 2006; ... 1. INTRODUCTION The most striking sixteenth-century reading of Thomas More's (1478-1535) Utopia appears in an improbable place: Jean Bodin's (1529/30-96) Six Livres de la Republique, published in 1576. In book 5 of this work Bodin turns to a discussion of sedition and revolution ...
The Renaissance consilium as justice.
Dec 22, 2006; ... 1. JUSTICE AND LAW Contesting the conventional distinction between norms and facts, Clifford Geertz has cogently insisted that "the legal representation of fact is normative from the start." His point is that legal facts "are socially constructed" and thus are not just "out ...
Karaism and Christian Hebraism: a new document.
Dec 22, 2006; ... 1. INTRODUCTION The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, has in its collection a Hebrew letter, written on 29 September 1641, sent by Joannes Stephanus Rittangel (1606-52) to John Selden (1584-1654), prominent English jurist and Christian Hebraist, with a ...
Medici funerary monuments in the Duomo of Florence during the fourteenth century: a prologue to "the early Medici".(Cover story)
Dec 22, 2006; ... In the nearly fifty years since Gene Brucker considered the history of the Medici family during the fourteenth century, very little more has been written to amplify the political and social picture that he presented. Brucker based his study in large part on a family ricordanza begun in ...
Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens, eds. Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 136. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. vi + 412 pp. index. illus. tbls. $150. ISBN: 90-04-14907-4. ...
Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Karl A. E. Enenkel and Jan Papy, eds. Petrarch and His Readers in the Renaissance. Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 6. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xiv + 334 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $125. ISBN: 90-04-14766-7. This volume collects ...
The Poet's Wisdom: The Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Timothy Kircher. The Poet's Wisdom: The Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 133. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. x + 316 pp. index. illus. bibl. $184. ISBN: 90-04-14637-7. ...
Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Margaret Franklin. Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. 206 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5364-1. Margaret Franklin offers an innovative analysis of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris ...
La femme italienne a l'epoque de la Renaissance: Sa vie privee et mondaine, son influence sociale.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Emmanuel-Pierre Rodocanachi. La femme italienne a l'epoque de la Renaissance: Sa vie privee et mondaine, son influence sociale. Manziana: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2005. vi + 440 pp. + 76 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. [euro]130. ISBN: 88-8247-171-3. When it first ...
La sfortuna di Jacopo Piccinino: Storia dei bracceschi in Italia 1423-1465.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Serena Ferente. La sfortuna di Jacopo Piccinino: Storia dei bracceschi in Italia 1423-1465. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2005. vi + 234 pp. index. append. bibl. [euro]26. ISBN: 88-222-5492-9. This book provides a fine example of the renewed interest in political ...
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... William Caferro. John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xvi + 460 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. chron. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-8018-8323-7. Although writers since Leonardo Bruni and ...
Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Lauro Martines. Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 336 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $30. ISBN: 0-19-517748-7. In this vivid account of Savonarola's forty-month ...
Selected Writings: Religion and Politics, 1490-98.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Girolamo Savonarola. Selected Writings: Religion and Politics, 1490-98. Ed. Donald P. R. Beebe. Ed. and trans. Anne Borelli and Maria Pastore Passaro. Italian Literature and Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xxxviii + 382 pp. + 13 b/w pls. index. $60. ISBN: ...
Il Rinascimento italiano di Fronte alla Riforma: Letteratura e Arte/Sixteenth-Century Italian Art and Literature and the Reformation.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Chrysa Damianaki, Paolo Procaccioli, and Angleo Romano, eds. Il Rinascimento italiano di Fronte alla Riforma: Letteratura e Arte/Sixteenth-Century Italian Art and Literature and the Reformation. Testi e Studi di letteratura italiana 12. Rome: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2005. 344 pp ....
Working in the Vineyard of the Lord: Jesuit Confraternities in Early Modern Italy.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Lance Gabriel Lazar. Working in the Vineyard of the Lord: Jesuit Confraternities in Early Modern Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xvi + 378 pp. + 13 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. map. chron. bibl. $80. ISBN: 0-8020-8854-6. Lance Lazar's study ...
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural Policies.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Peter Rietbergen. Power and Religion in Baroque Rome: Barberini Cultural Policies. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 135. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xviii + 438 pp. index. $135. ISBN: 90-04-14893-0. Peter Rietbergen's book is a multilayered study ...
Palladio's Rome: A Translation of Andrea Palladio's Two Guidebooks to Rome.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, trans. and eds. Palladio's Rome: A Translation of Andrea Palladio's Two Guidebooks to Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 320 pp. index. illus. bibl. append. map. $45. ISBN: 0-300-10909-1. Andrea Palladio (1508-80) is best known ...
The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Giovan Pietro Bellori. The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition. Ed. Hellmut Wohl. Trans, Alice Sedgwick Wohl. Intro. Tomaso Montanari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii + 504 pp. index. append. illus ....
Renaissance Siena: Art in Context.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... A. Lawrence Jenkens, ed. Renaissance Siena: Art in Context Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 71. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2005. 232 pp. index. illus. bibl. $54.95. ISBN: 1-931112-42-8. "If the fourteenth century was the golden age of Sienese ...
Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Katherine A. McIver. Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 282 pp. + 4 color pls. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: ...
"Ambasciatore della risa": La commedia dell'arte nel secondo Cinquecento (1545-1590).(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Philiep Bossier. "Ambasciatore della risa": La commedia dell'arte nel secondo Cinquecento (1545-1590). Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 2004. 408 pp. index. bibl. [euro]27. ISBN: 88-7667-155-2. For his description of the situation of the commedia dell'arte in the ...
Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Marica S. Tacconi. Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xx + 358 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map ....
Ottaviano Petrucci: A Catalogue Raisonne.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Stanley Boorman. Ottaviano Petrucci: A Catalogue Raisonne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. vi + 1282 pp. index. chron. bibl. $250. ISBN: 0-19-514207-5. By any objective standard this book ranks as a magnificent achievement. Stanley Boorman has been studying the ...
Madrigali e madrigaletti.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Mogens Pederson. Madrigali e madrigaletti. Ed. Kitti Messina. Monumenta Musica Europea II/2. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005. xxxiii + 214 pp. append. tbls. $125. ISBN: 2-503-51801-X. Many critical editions of early music appeared during the twentieth century in ...
Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Jonathan E. Glixon and Beth L. Glixon. Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice. AMS Studies in Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. viii + 398 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. chron. bibl. $50. ISBN: ...
Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Sherry Velasco. Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. xviii + 210 pp. + 14 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. append. $29.95. ISBN: 0-8265-1516-9. This book is entertaining, ...
Ejercicios de Retorica.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Alfonso de Torres. Ejercicios de Retorica. Ed. Violeta Perez Custodio. Palmyrenvs Colleccion de textos y estudios Humanisticos Serie Textos. Madrid: Editorial del Laberinto, 2005. 400 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]42. ISBN: 84-8483-188-4. Another work by one of ...
Juan van der Hamen y Leon and the Court of Madrid.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... William B. Jordan. Juan van der Hamen y Leon and the Court of Madrid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 334 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-300-11318-8. Juan van der Hamen y Leon and the Court of Madrid is the accompanying catalogue to an exhibition ...
Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Charlene Villasenor Black. Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 272 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-691-09631-7. While the widespread popularity of the cult of saints ...
L'universite de Caen aux XVe et XVIe siecles: Identite et representation.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Lyse Roy. L'universite de Caen aux XVe et XVIe siecles: Identite et representation. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 24. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xii + 314 pp. index, append. bibl. map. tbls. $161. ISBN: 90-04-14943-0. This ...
Clement Marot: The Mirror of the Prince.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Ehsan Ahmed. Clement Marot: The Mirror of the Prince. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2005. xii + 88 pp. index. bibl. $19.95. ISBN: 1-886365-57-1. Scholars have long sought to determine Clement Marot's (1494-1544) allegiance to a particular religious ...
"Route par ailleurs": Le "nouveau langage" des Essais.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Andre Tournon. "Route par ailleurs": Le "nouveau langage" des Essais. Etudes Montaignistes 48. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 438 pp. index. append. [euro]49. ISBN: 2-7453-1400-9. Andre Tournon's new work culminates a long and distinguished career devoted to ...
La Justice de Dieu: Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigne et la Reforme protestante en France au XVIe siecle.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Elliott Forsyth. La Justice de Dieu: Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigne et la Reforme protestante en France au XVIe siecle. Etudes et Essais sur la Renaissance 57. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2005. 564 pp. index. bibl. [euro]105. ISBN: 2-7453-1128-X. By focusing ...
Les Spectateurs de la vie: Genealogie du regard moraliste.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Louis Van Delft. Les Spectateurs de la vie: Genealogie du regard moraliste. Les Collections de la Republique des Lettres. Saint-Nicholas: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2005. 314 pp. index. illus. bibl. $39. ISBN: 2-7637-8260-4. In 1951, Sir Isaiah Berlin gave a ...
Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Susan E. Dinan. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. x + 190 pp. index. append. tbls. map. chron. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: ...
Salons, History, and the Creation of 17th-Century France: Mastering Memory.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Faith E. Beasley. Salons, History, and the Creation of 17th-Century France: Mastering Memory. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xii + 346 pp. index. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5354-4. This book is a critique of ...
Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot.".(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Eliane Viennot. Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot." Paris: Editions Perrin, 2005. 664 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. [euro]11. ISBN: 2-262-02377-8. Highlighting a problem occurring in representing female subjects with public reputations, Antonia Fraser, in ...
Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian. Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 448 pp. + 12 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-231-13412-6. This very-well-written biography of the Heptameron's author ...
Louise Labe: Une creature de papier.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Mireille Huchon. Louise Labe: Une creature de papier. Titre courant 34. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 484 pp. index. append. illus. [euro]22. ISBN: 2-600-00534-X. Mireille Huchon, a serious specialist in sixteenth-century French literature, has just published ...
Sex, Marriage, and Family Life in John Calvin's Geneva.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... John Witte and Robert M. Kingdon. Sex, Marriage, and Family Life in John Calvin's Geneva. Vol. 1, Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. Religion, Marriage, and Family. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. xxxii + 512 pp. index. tbls. $32. ISBN: 0-8028-4803-6. ...
John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin's First Commentaries.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... R. Ward Holder. John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin's First Commentaries. Studies in the History of Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. x + 312 pp. index. bibl. $134. ISBN: 90-04-14926-0. In John Calvin and the Grounding ...
Die Patristik in der Fruhen Neuzeit: Die Relekture der Kirchenvater in den Wissenschaften des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Gunter Frank, Thomas Leinkauf, and Markus Wriedt, eds. Die Patristik in der Fruhen Neuzeit: Die Relekture der Kirchenvater in den Wissenschaften des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten 10. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2006. 424 pp. index. n.p ....
Wettkampf der Nationen: Konstructionen einer deutschen Ehrgemeinschaft an der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Caspar Hirschi. Wettkampf der Nationen: Konstructionen einer deutschen Ehrgemeinschaft an der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit. Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2005. 558 pp. index. bibl. [euro]48. ISBN: 3-89244-936-8. Noting the often virulent manifestations of ...
Foreign Encounters: Case Studies in German Literature before 1700.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Mara R. Wade and Glenn Ehrstine, eds. Foreign Encounters: Case Studies in German Literature before 1700. Daphnis 33:1-2. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 378 pp. illus. $108. ISBN: 90-420-1686-8. Foreign Encounters: Case Studies in German Literature before 1700, a volume ...
Bauen im reichsstadtisch-reformatorischen Heilbronn: Eine exemplarische Werkanalyse zu Hans Schweyner von Weinsberg (1473-1534).(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Simone Farys. Bauen im reichsstadtisch-reformatorischen Heilbronn: Eine exemplarische Werkanalyse zu Hans Schweyner von Weinsberg (1473-1534). Karlsruher Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte 4. Munster: LIT Verlag, 2004. 384 pp. + 200 b/w pls. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]34.90. ISBN: ...
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Larry Silver. Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xviii + 374 pp. index. illus. bibl. $59.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3868-0. Weighing the individual artist's decisions ...
Adagiorum chilias secunda.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Desiderius Erasmus. Adagiorum chilias secunda. Vol. 2.3 of Opera Omnia. Ed. M. Szymanski. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2005. x + 528 pp. index. illus. $200. ISBN: 0-444-51638-7. In the course of the 1980s, Felix Heinimann and Emanuel Kienzele published the first parts ...
Tous vos gens a Latin: Le Latin, langue savante, langue mondaine.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Emmanuel Bury, ed. Tous vos gens a Latin: Le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siecles). Etudes reunies et editees par Emmanuel Bury. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 155. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 464 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $126. ISBN: ...
Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Carmine G. Di Biase, ed. Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period. Approaches to Translation Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 290 pp. index. bibl. $75. ISBN: 90-420-1768-6. The present volume grew out of a conference held at Jacksonville State University in ...
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... John Farrell. Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. x + 342 pp. index. $35. ISBN: 0-8014-4410-4. This ambitious study traces the workings of paranoia through a dizzying variety of texts, not only "Cervantes to ...
Queer/Early/Modern.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Carla Freccero. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 182 pp. index. bibl. $74.95. (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8223-3678-2 (cl), 0-8223-3690-1 (pbk). For scholars working on gender in early modern texts, this book is both a useful synthesis of ...
The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon, eds. The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxviii + 396 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-19-517029-6. Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon have conceived, nurtured, and ...
Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Patricia Phillippy. Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 258 pp. index. illus. bibl. $52. ISBN: 0-8018-8225-7. Studying the so-called cosmetic debate in conjunction with the theories of ...
The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Stephen Turnbull. The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War. London: Greenhill Books, 2006. 272 pp. index. map. chron. illus. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 1-85367-676-4. People--including myself--familiar with Professor Turnbull's ...
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Debate between Moderns and Ancients in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Thought. ('Al kitfei 'anaqim: Toldot ha-pulmus bein aharonim lerishonim bahagut ha-yehudit biyemei ha-beinayim uvreishit ha-'et ha-hadashah).(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Abraham Melamed. On the Shoulders of Giants: The Debate between Moderns and Ancients in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Thought. ('Al kitfei 'anaqim: Toldot ha-pulmus bein aharonim lerishonim bahagut ha-yehudit biyemei ha-beinayim uvreishit ha-'et ha-hadashah). Ramat-Gan: Bar ...
I Giolito e la stampa nell'Italia del XVI secolo.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Angela Nuovo and Christian Coppens. I Giolito e la stampa nell'Italia del XVI secolo. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 402. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2005. 634 pp. + 78 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF 220. ISBN: 2-600-01001-7. The most obvious initial ...
Die Domanen des Emblems: Ausserliterarische Anwendungen der Emblematik.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Gerhard F. Strasser and Mara R. Wade, eds. Die Domanen des Emblems: Ausserliterarische Anwendungen der Emblematik. Wolfenbutteler Arbeitskreis fur Barockforschung 39. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz Verlag, 2004. 308 pp. index. illus. [euro]74. ISBN: 3-447-05066-7. In 1522, ...
Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture: Emblems and Comic Strips.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Laurence Grove. Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture: Emblems and Comic Strips. Studies in European Cultural Transition 32. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv + 188 pp. + 52 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3488-4. In the concluding ...
Informatione del pestifero et contagioso morbo.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Giovan Filippo Ingrassia. Informatione del pestifero et contagioso morbo. Filosofia e Scienza nell'Eta Moderna. Ed. Luigi Ingaliso. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2005. 650 pp. index. illus. [euro]45. ISBN: 88-464-7290-X. Giovan Filippo Ingrassia was protomedico of Palermo in ...
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Brian W. Ogilvie. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvi + 386 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-226-62087-5. Touted as a "discipline of description," natural history, Brian Ogilvie ...
Trattati della Calamita.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Leonardo Garzoni. Trattati della Calamita. Filosofia e scienza nell'eta moderna. Ed. Monica Ugaglia. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2005. 352 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN: 88-464-7132-6. With this edition of a sixteenth-century treatise on magnetism, ...
Lo Specchio della Fantasia: Retorica, Magia e Scrittura in Giordano Bruno.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Maria Pia Ellero. Lo Specchio della Fantasia: Retorica, Magia e Scrittura in Giordano Bruno. Collana di studi e testi Rinascimentali 7. Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2005. 168 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. [euro]15. ISBN: 88-7246-665-2. Maria Pia Ellero taught ...
Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Saul Fisher. Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 131. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. 436 pp. index. bibl. $172.50. ISBN: 90-04-11996-5. Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), a French Catholic ...
The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Thomas Holden. The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 306 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $74. ISBN: 0-19-926326-4. The place of a body, most philosophers will agree, is a region of space. This region, in the opinion of most, ...
The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue 1460-1565.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2006; ... Gregory O'Malley. The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue 1460-1565. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 428 pp + index. append. map. bibl. $115. ISBN: 0-19-925379-X. The Order of St. John of Jerusalem was founded in the eleventh century to provide ...