Celebrations held in Siena during the Government of the Nine
Contributor(s): Gordon Moran, Michael Mallory
In fourteenth-century Siena the government of the Nine functioned very much within alliances with the leading Guelf powers. This article studies celebrations of Guelf victories in Siena, as depicted in the famous castle cycle of the Palazzo Pubblico and described in the writings of Benvoglienti.
Figuring Justice: Imperial Ideology and the Discourse of Colonialism in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland
Contributor(s): Walter S. H. Lim
Edmund Spenser is a vocal spokesman for the colonization of Ireland. In A View of the Present State of Ireland, he provides one of the most sustained imperialist articulations in Elizabethan England. And in Book V of The Faerie Queene, he promulgates a vision of justice that is necessary for...
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Calvinist Miracles and the Concept of the Miraculous in Sixteenth-Century Huguenot Thought
Contributor(s): Moshe Sluhovsky
This paper is a study of French Calvinism as a language. It was a language which employed the signifiers and the signs of the traditional Christian culture. There was persistent usages of key Catholic words in the theology of early Huguenot believers, regardless of their level of education or...
The Development of Hispanitas in Spanish Sixteenth-Century Versions of the Fall of Numancia
Contributor(s): Rachel Schmidt
The story of the Celtiberian town of Numancia and its fall in 133 B.C., as seen in the writings of Livy, Plutarch and others, was a well established topos in sixteenth-century Spain. The accounts of the bravery of the Numantians in defending their besieged city formed the basis for hispanitas,...
Silvestro da Prierio and the Pomponazzi Affair
Contributor(s): Michael Tavuzzi
The Italian Dominican friar Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio (1456-1527), known as Prierias, served as Master of the Sacred Palace during the pontificates of Leo X, Adrian VI and Clement VII. He is chiefly remembered for his involvement in the cases of Luther and Reuchlin and an epistolary exchange...
“To Warn Proud Cities”: a Topical Reference in Milton’s “Airy Knights” Simile (Paradise Lost II.531-8)
Contributor(s): John Leonard
In Paradise Lost II.531-8 modern editors often see an allusion to Josephus’ account of armies appearing in the sky shortly before the fall of Jerusalem. In fact, reports of spectral soldiers and aerial battles were quite common in seventeenth-century English pamphlets, such as Mirabilis Annus and...
The English Enchiridion Militis Christiani in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
Contributor(s): Douglas H. Parker
Following earlier articles in Renaissance and Reformation and Erasmus in English, this paper examines the fate of Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis Christiani in three late editions published in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Again in 1686, 1752, and 1816, Erasmus's work was...
Observations on Milton’s Accents
Contributor(s): John K. Hale
Milton’s diacritics in six languages, though mostly typical of his time, allow some inferences about his language attainments and scholarship. For Latin verse, he uses accents to disambiguate rhythm or meaning. For Greek scholarship, he is punctilious. Italian authors are culture to him, French...
Le dialogue de l'auteur et du lecteur dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas
Contributor(s): François Roudaut
Dans cet article, il s’agit avant tout d’attirer l’attention sur les mécanismes dialogiques qui animent tout le projet de Du Bartas dans La Sepmaine. Le narrateur de ce récit de la Création est mu par un profond désir de convaincre, de faire connaître, d’amener le lecteur à une expérience...
“The Obedience due to Princes”: Absolutism in Pseudo-Martyr
Contributor(s): Phebe Jensen
This paper attempts to tease out the contemporary political resonances found in John Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr. While it is true that Pseudo-Martyr aligns itself with absolutism, it does so in a very complex and ambivalent manner, rejecting political patriarchalism and adopting a moderate sense of...
Christianisme, métaphysique et épistémologie chez Marsile Ficin
Contributor(s): Yvan Morin
Ficin centre la hiérarchie universelle sur l’homme, au sens d’une âme raisonnable. Métaphysiquement, la description substantialiste qu’en donne Kristeller ne semble pas pouvoir se comprendre sans l’apport hénologique des hypostases et la transformation chrétienne de cet apport. Cassirer, Allen,...
Recent Books / Livres récents
Lecture allégorique et lecture emblématique: l’utilisation de “l’allegacion” à des fins morales; l’exemple des Métamorphoses d’Ovide
Contributor(s): Jean-Claude Moisan, Sabrina Vervacke
Legrand, dans l’Archiloge Sophie, donne à “l’allegacion” deux finalités: embellir le langage et inciter à la vertu. Pour ce faire, il s’ingéniera à fixer le sens moral profond que recèlent les fictions des Métamorphoses d’Ovide en les rangeant sous des catégories commodes et faciles d’utilisation...
A New Set of Spectacles: The Assembly’s Annotations, 1645-1657
Contributor(s): Dean George Lampros
With the collapse of press censorship that followed the impeachment of William Laud in the Fall of 1640, a group of London printers took advantage of their new-found freedom and encouraged the House of Commons to convene an assembly of divines whose sole task was to revise the notes located...
“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok
Contributor(s): Susan M. Felch
Anne Vaughan Lok was a prominent supporter of the protestant cause and an active participant in the early reformed communities of the mid-sixteenth century. Although recent scholarship on Anne Lok seems to indicate that she may have felt hindered by her own gender and overly dependent on male...
“A Plott to have his nose and eares cutt of”: Schoppe as Seen by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Contributor(s): Winfried Schleiner
That Gaspar Schoppe, author of several stinging publications against James I, was brutally attacked in a Madrid street in 1614 has often been dismissed as the victim’s larmoyant exaggeration of a mere licking, although Schoppe claimed that it was an attempt on his life. But there is a letter...
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