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  1. Review of Œuvres complètes. Tome III. Mantice, ou Discours de la verité de Divination par Astrologie
  2. Review of Sabaudian Studies: Political Culture, Dynasty, and Territory 1400–1700
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    Preface

    Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

  4. Sixteenth-Century Polymaths in the Print and Publishing Business in Basel: An Intersection of Interests and Strategies (1472–1513)

    Sixteenth-Century Polymaths in the Print and Publishing Business in Basel: An Intersection of Interests and Strategies (1472–1513)

    Article | Contributor(s): Valentina Sebastiani, Wendell Ricketts

    In sixteenth-century Europe the business of printing created small intellectual communities that had the ability to manage the exigencies of the market and those of culture. In this process of continual negotiation between the interests of publishers, authors, and readers, how did men of letters...

  5. Phaeton’s Flight, Adonis’s Trial, and Minerva in the House of Envy: 
Lodovico Dolce between Ovid and Ariosto

    Phaeton’s Flight, Adonis’s Trial, and Minerva in the House of Envy: 
Lodovico Dolce between Ovid and Ariosto

    Article | Contributor(s): Andrea Torre

    Introducing Thyeste: Tragedia da Seneca (1547), the Venetian writer Lodovico Dolce (1508–68) defines the art of translating a book as an experience that lives in the “perspective of the becoming [...] because in order to translate, it is necessary for us to take another language or (if possible)...

  6. Dialogic Construction and Interaction in Lodovico Domenichi’s La nobiltà delle donne

    Dialogic Construction and Interaction in Lodovico Domenichi’s La nobiltà delle donne

    Article | Contributor(s): Laura Prelipcean

    Lodovico Domenichi (1515–64), one of the major polymaths of sixteenth-century Italy, is currently enjoying a marked revival in the critical literature. Although he has been studied in the context of his contemporary printing and publishing activities, the dissemination of works in the vernacular,...

  7. Michael Servetus’s Britain: Anatomy of a Renaissance Geographer’s Writing

    Michael Servetus’s Britain: Anatomy of a Renaissance Geographer’s Writing

    Article | Contributor(s): Peter Hughes

    Michael Servetus was a theologian, physician, astrologer, and editor. In the latter capacity he edited two editions of Ptolemy’s Geographia, to which he added some apparatus and several articles that described European countries and peoples. Following in the footsteps of medieval and Renaissance...

  8. Erudite Cultural Mediators and the Making
 of the Renaissance Polymath: The Case of Giorgio Fondulo and Janello Torriani

    Erudite Cultural Mediators and the Making
 of the Renaissance Polymath: The Case of Giorgio Fondulo and Janello Torriani

    Article | Contributor(s): Cristiano Zanetti

    Janello Torriani, also known by his Spanish name Juanelo Turriano (Cremona ca. 1500–Toledo 1585), was a blacksmith, locksmith, constructor of scientific instruments, famous inventor of mechanical devices, automata-maker, clockmaker to Emperor Charles V, hydraulic engineer, mathematician,...

  9. The Inaudible Music of the Renaissance: From Marsilio Ficino to Robert Fludd

    The Inaudible Music of the Renaissance: From Marsilio Ficino to Robert Fludd

    Article | Contributor(s): Roseen H. Giles

    This article revaluates the significance of musical treatises written by the Ficinian physician Robert Fludd (1574–1637). By reconsidering the implications of Fludd’s interpretation of Marsilio Ficino’s musical philosophy, I propose that his “reconstruction” of the Renaissance outlook in the...

  10. Review of Il ritorno dei classici nell’Umanesimo. Studi in memoria di Gianvito Resta
  11. Review of Writings of Resistance

    Review of Writings of Resistance

    Review | Contributor(s): William Doyle

  12. Review of The Italian Baroque Table: Cooking and Entertaining from the Golden Age of Naples
  13. Review of After Civic Humanism: Learning and Politics in Renaissance Italy
  14. Review of Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany
  15. Review of Writing Faith and Telling Tales: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More
  16. Review of Didon se sacrifiant d’Étienne Jodelle

    Review of Didon se sacrifiant d’Étienne Jodelle

    Review | Contributor(s): Anne G. Graham

  17. Review of Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture 1550–1700
  18. Review of The Life of Ignatius of Loyola

    Review of The Life of Ignatius of Loyola

    Review | Contributor(s): Gilles Mongeau

  19. Review of Portraits of Shakespeare

    Review of Portraits of Shakespeare

    Review | Contributor(s): Daniel Fischlin

  20. Review of Galileo’s Reading

    Review of Galileo’s Reading

    Review | Contributor(s): Nick Wilding