Higginbotham, Jennifer, and Mark Albert Johnston, eds. Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

Contributor(s): Rosalind Kerr

Kenny, Neil, ed. Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth

Contributor(s): Arazoo Ferozan

Kuehn, Thomas. Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300–1600

Contributor(s): Amanda G. Madden

Le Gall, Jean-Marie. Défense et illustration de la Renaissance

Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

Lemon, Rebecca. Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England

Contributor(s): Dan Breen

Parker, Patricia. Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords

Contributor(s): Mark Albert Johnston

Pizan, Christine de. The Book of the Mutability of Fortune. Ed. and trans. Geri L. Smith

Contributor(s): Hélène Cazes

Rhodes, Neil. Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England

Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Roscioni, Lisa. La badessa di Castro. Storia di uno scandalo

Contributor(s): Mattia Zangari

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ed. Grace Ioppolo

Contributor(s): Sheena Jary

Summers, Kirk M. Morality After Calvin: Theodore Beza’s Christian Censor and Reformed Ethics

Contributor(s): C. Mark Steinacher

Suthor, Nicola. Rembrandt’s Roughness

Contributor(s): Jonathan Locke Hart

Vintenon, Alice. La Fantaisie philosophique à la Renaissance

Contributor(s): François Roudaut

Williams, Robert. Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy

Contributor(s): Marsha Libina

Zapf, Hauprecht. Johannes der Evangelist über alle Kapitel erklärt. Ein Bibelkommentar von 1597. Ed. Martin Rothkegel

Contributor(s): John D. Rempel

Identity, Architecture, and Spirituality: The Ursulines of Bordeaux Decorate a Chapel

Contributor(s): Mity Myhr

This article examines the Ursuline community in Bordeaux, France between 1606 and 1625. It integrates the community’s social and institutional history with an analysis of their convent’s architecture and devotional practices, an approach that has not until now been taken for women’s teaching...

English and Scottish Scholars at the Library of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1565–1601)

Contributor(s): John-Mark Philo

Throughout the second half of the sixteenth century, the scholar and collector Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535–1601) welcomed poets, mathematicians, antiquarians, and astronomers from every corner of Europe to his vast private library in Padua. These scholars left their mark on Pinelli’s collection,...

A Holy Exchange: The Dedicatory Epistle of Clément Marot’s Translation of the Psalms

Contributor(s): Gregory P. Haake

Clément Marot, poet and evangelical sympathizer, published his own translation of thirty psalms in 1541, which in itself was not remarkable at the time. However, what distinguishes this collection is the dedicatory epistle that precedes it. Marot does more than flatter the king, to whom he...

« Nous sommes morts de peur » : considérations pathémiques sur les opuscules antiturcs de Marko Marulić de Split

Contributor(s): Ivan C. Kraljić

The incursions of the Ottomans into Europe starting in the fourteenth century gave rise to a particular genre of literature known as “antiturcic” (antiturcica), by turns warlike, prophetic, and historical. In this vein, the Dalmatian Marko Marulić of Split (1450–1524) composed a Prayer against...

The Political Use of Epicureanism in Filelfo’s Commentationes Florentinae de exilio

Contributor(s): Mariano Vilar

Francesco Filelfo’s Commentationes Florentinae de exilio (ca. 1440) presents us with a dialogue among a group of nobles and scholars who debate several issues in moral philosophy to console themselves on their defeat by Cosimo de’ Medici. The role of pleasure in human happiness is treated in...