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Article: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2006
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Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. By Thomas V. Cohen. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 306. $27.50.)
Hadyn White once polemically remarked that it did not matter to him if a historian had spent ten days or ten years in the archives. All those footnotes directing readers to archival sources functioned for him as just one more self-authenticating device whereby a historian formally asserted a claim to his or her authority to speak within the accepted conventions of the discipline of history. In Thomas V. Cohen's book, however, all those footnotes deeply matter. In essence, the footnotes constitute the fabric of the entire study, and ...