John Colet on Law and Liberty

Contributor(s): Daniel T. Lochman

Du Bellay and the Inscription of Exile

Contributor(s): Miriella Melara

Sexual Politics and the Interpretation of Nature in Spenser's Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

Contributor(s): Jennifer Laws

Une vie de palais: la cour du cardinal Alexandre Farnèse vers 1563

Contributor(s): Pierre Hurtubise

Guerrier or Glossateur? Montaigne's Monetary Metaphors

Contributor(s): Edward J. Benson

True and False Pastoral in Don Quijote

Contributor(s): Stephen Rupp

Consilium at timor mortis: On Speaking, Writing and Silence in “Utopia”

Contributor(s): Arthur J. Slavin

Renégats marseillais (1591-1595)

Contributor(s): Gabriel Audisio

'Heav'n Hath Timely Tri'd [Her] Youth": Self-Knowledge Through Language in Milton's Comus

Contributor(s): Carol Scheidenhelm

Lucrezia Marinelli and Woman's Identity in Late Italian Renaissance

Contributor(s): Prudence Allen, Filippo Salvatore

In this paper the Italian Humanist Lucrezia Marinelli (1571-1653) will be examined from the two complementary perspectives on her place in the late Italian Renaissance Studies and her contribution to the philosophy of woman. Marinelli is remarkable in both areas of intellectual history; and her...

Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné charmé par les voix du mythos

Contributor(s): Carole Duchesne

"The Great Sophism of All Sophisms": Colonialist Redefinition in Bacon's Holy War

Contributor(s): Craig M. Rustici

Re-reading the folie: Louise Labé's Sonnet XVIII and the Renaissance Love Heritage

Contributor(s): Deborah Lesko Baker

Louise Labé’s Sonnet XVIII is far from subtle in its forceful representation of sexual intimacy. After François Rigolot and Ann Rosalind Jones, Deborah Lesko Baker suggests a new reading of this most famous poem, and attempts to demonstrate how Louise Labé employs and ironizes the Petrarchan...

'Stone Walls' and ‘I’ron Bars': Richard Lovelace and the Conventions of Seventeenth-Century Prison Literature

Contributor(s): Raymond A. Anselment

In transcending stone walls and iron bars, Lovelace's well-known song "To Althea, From Prison" celebrates a freedom distinctly at odds with prevailing, often religiously inspired transformations of seventeenth-century carceral realities. Lovelace's celebration of "Minds innocent and quiet"...

Aneau, des Emblèmes d'Alciat et de l'Imagination poétique aux Métamorphoses d'Ovide: pratique d'un commentaire

Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant, Jean-Claude Moisan

La pratique du commentaire chez Aneau, telle qu'elle s'affine dans son oeuvre d'emblématiste, de traducteur et de commentateur, "emblématise" cette tendance renaissante où l'interprétant des textes réitère la glose séculaire tout en s'appropriant cette tradition. Ainsi le commentaire anellien...

"Is Abbot Isidore also among the Prophets?": Protestant Influences upon the Annotated Bible of Isidore Clarius

Contributor(s): R. Gerald Hobbs

This paper attempts to recognize the important role played by Isidore Clarius in the reform of the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century. In his preface, prolegomena and notes to the Bible, Clarius provided a form of pre-Tridentine Biblical scholarship which enjoyed more affinities with evangelical...

Leone de' Sommi and Jewish Theatre in Renaissance Mantua

Contributor(s): Donald Beecher

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his...

Garnier's Historical Sources in Les Juifves

Contributor(s): Damon Di Mauro

Robert Garnier's "Les Juifves" (1583) is generally considered to be the crown jewel of the French Renaissance stage. At the close of his prefatory "Argument" to the play, Garnier obligingly furnishes the historical sources from which he has taken the story of the sufferings of Zedekiah and his...

Les opinions politiques d'un avocat parisien sous Henri IV: Antoine Arnauld

Contributor(s): Michel De Waele

Antoine Arnauld est surtout connu des historiens pour ses attaques virulentes contre les Jésuites. Mais cet avocat parisien a participé à tous les débats qui secouèrent la France durant le règne d'Henri IV. Royaliste convaincu, ardent défenseur des privilèges du parlement, ses opinions politiques...

"Ryse Up Elisa” – Woman Trapped in a Lay: Spenser's "Aprill"

Contributor(s): Marianne Micros

In Edmund Spenser's "Aprill," Colin Cloute, by creating and controlling an idealized woman, has silenced the source of his own creative power. However, Colin's lay contains hints that Elisa is neither perfect nor passive: complex natural and mythological allusions reveal her vitality and...