'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...

The Pastime of Master F. J.

Contributor(s): Dale B. Billingsley

Characters in Gascoigne's "Adventures of Master F. J." (1573) use reading as a pastime by which they sort out or complicate their relationships with others; the novel's readers, for their pastime, recreate these relationships as they read the novel. These linguistic, rhetorical and social...

Unica Oblatio Christi: Eucharistic Sacrifice and the first Zürich Disputation

Contributor(s): Keith D. Lewis

The First Zürich Disputation (January 29th, 1523) between Ulrich Zwingli and Johann Faber was the earliest Reformation-era public debate of the doctrine of the eucharistic sacrifice. While Zwingli was at an early and relatively fluid stage in his rejection of eucharistic sacrifice, Faber's...

The Fall of Nebuchadnezzar

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Sauer

This paper examines the relationship of verbal expression, political engagement, and historical progress in a poem which has traditionally been labelled undramatic and read as an allegory of Milton's post-revolutionary resignation to quietism. While "Paradise Regained" consists primarily of a...

Marc Lescarbot au pays des Ithyphalles

Contributor(s): Guy Poirier

L’interprétation de l'oeuvre de Marc Lescarbot hésite le plus souvent entre l'aspect encyclopédique de ses ouvrages et leur dimention créative. Dans le présent article, l'auteur tente de situer le discours dont se réclame l'écrivain au coeur du maniérisme poétique du début du XVIIe siècle. Pour...

Sixteenth Century Hospital Reform: Henri IV and the Chamber of Christian Charity

Contributor(s): Daniel Hickey

Created in 1606, the Chamber of Christian Charity was intended to fund pensions for former army officers and amputated soldiers by reviewing the operations and expropriating surplus revenues from local charitable foundations - abbeys, monasteries, hospices and local hospitals. This article...

Henri IV et les Jésuites

Contributor(s): Claude Sutto

Les relations entre la Compagnie de Jésus et Henri IV ont été marquées pendant près de quinze ans par des malentendus, des accidents de parcours, plus encore par des pressions qui s'exerçaient sur celle-ci comme sur celui-là et qui témoignaient à la fois de l'existence de préjugés et de peurs que...

Représentation allégorique d'Henri IV rex imperator

Contributor(s): Marie-France Wagner

C'est à partir de deux images que nous étudions la représentation d'Henri IV rex imperator. La première, gravée en 1602 et réutilisée quelque sept années plus tard, est doublement allégorique; elle met en scène Henri IV à la fois Hercule et Alexandre. La description du premier arc de triomphe de...

Donne's Model: Henry IV

Contributor(s): Anthony Raspa

Donne's Pseudo-Martyr is his first major published work and the longest that he ever wrote. As he argues in it about the relationship of the state and religion to each other, he establishes Henry IV of Navarre, king of France, as one of his models of a competent and tolerant king. Henry's...