Review of Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany

Review | Contributor(s): Lucia Dacome

Review of Faithful Labourers: A Reception History of Paradise Lost, 1667–1970. Vol. 1: Style and Genre. Vol. 2: Interpretative Issues

Review | Contributor(s): Dennis Danielson

Review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden

Review | Contributor(s): Tanya M. Caldwell

Review of Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Albert Johnston

Review of Visual Time: The Image in History

Review | Contributor(s): Rebekah Smick

Review of Being the Nação in the Eternal City

Review | Contributor(s): Matteo Soranzo

Review of Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1579): Un siennois à la croisée des genres et des savoirs

Review | Contributor(s): Cristina Perissinotto

Review of Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture

Review | Contributor(s): Philip D. Collington

Review of Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

Review | Contributor(s): Valeria Finucci

Review of The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento

Review | Contributor(s): Thomas V. Cohen

Review of Edmund Spenser’s Poetry

Review | Contributor(s): David Katz

Review of Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation

Review | Contributor(s): James W. Nelson Novoa

Review of Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton: Political Prose, 1644–1660

Review | Contributor(s): John Leonard

Milton’s Paradise Lost: Previously Unrecognized Allusions to the Aurora Borealis, and a Solution to the Comet Conundrum in Book 2

Article | Contributor(s): Clifford J. Cunningham

This article reveals that John Milton employed an allusion to the aurora borealis in book 6 (79–83) of Paradise Lost, unrecognized in more than three centuries of scholarly analysis. Two other likely allusions, and one certain, to the aurora have also been identified. This research casts doubt on...

Velázquez’s Democritus: Global Disillusion and the Critical Hermeneutics of a Smile

Article | Contributor(s): Jimena Berzal de Dios

Velázquez’s Democritus (ca. 1630) presents a unique encounter: not only are there few depictions in which the Greek philosopher appears with a sphere that shows an actual map, but Velázquez used a court jester as a model for Democritus, thus placing the philosopher within a courtly space. When we...

Recasting Recantation in 1540s England: Thomas Becon, Robert Wisdom, and Robert Crowley

Article | Contributor(s): Kate Roddy

The legacy of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments has urged scholars of the English Reformation to consider martyrdom the ultimate act of resistance, and recantation as an embarrassing lapse of faith. However, more recent criticism has drawn attention to the subversive potential of the false...

Tommaso Campanella in the Schulmetaphysik: The Doctrine of the Three Primalities and the Case of the Lutheran Liborius Capsius (1589–1654) in Erfurt

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Lamanna

Following some recent findings, this essay presents the first known case of the reception of the doctrine of the primalities (power, knowledge, and love) by the Italian Tommaso Campanella within German scholastic philosophy, the so-called Schulmetaphysik. Here, the focus is on the Lutheran...

Monstrous Births and Imaginations: Authorship and Folklore in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Article | Contributor(s): Lisa Walters

The amateur actors in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are compared several times with the fairies who inhabit a forest outside of Athens. This article will investigate the significance of the analogy by exploring commonalities between discursive elements in folklore, physiology, and philosophy that...

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio

Review | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

Review of Le cinquiesme tome des histoires tragiques

Review | Contributor(s): François Paré