Self-Portraits of a Truthful Liar: Satire, Truth-Telling, and Courtliness in Ludovico Ariosto’s Satire and Orlando Furioso

Article | Contributor(s): Paola Ugolini

Composed during the most difficult years of Ludovico Ariosto’s relationship with the Este court, the Satire are known for presenting a picture of their author as a simple, quiet-loving man, and also as a man who can speak only the truth. However, the self-portrait offered by the Satire of the...

“E poi in Roma ognuno è Aretino”: Pasquino, Aretino, and the Concealed Self

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Faini

This article explores Pietro Aretino’s pasquinade production as a crucial phase in the construction of his public and literary persona that is characterized by a peculiar effacement of the author’s voice. The article then focuses on issues of anonymity and authorship in the fifteenth and...

“Il ridervi de la goffezza del dire”: Niccolò Franco et la satire napolitaine du pétrarquisme

Article | Contributor(s): Roland Béhar

This essay explores the Neapolitan background of Niccolò Franco and argues that although the main purpose of his Il Petrarchista (Venice, 1539) was certainly a kind of Erasmian and Aretinian satire of the Petrarchist mode which grounded Pietro Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua (1525), still not...

Burlesque Connotations in the Pictorial Language in Bronzino’s Poetry

Article | Contributor(s): Carla Chiummo

Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as Bronzino, was not only one of the most celebrated painters at the court of Cosimo I in Florence; he was also a dazzling poet, as Vasari reminds us in his Vite. Bronzino was the author of a Petrarchan canzoniere, as well as of burlesque poems. In his sonetti...

Review of La Sepmaine de Du Bartas, ses lecteurs et la science du temps. En hommage à Yvonne Bellenger. Actes du Colloque international d’Orléans (12–13 juin 2014)

Review | Contributor(s): Annick Macaskill

Review of The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epic of Boiardo and Ariosto

Review | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Review of L’art de la conciliation

Review | Contributor(s): Philippe Baillargeon

Review of L’écriture des femmes à la Renaissance française II

Review | Contributor(s): Pierre Cameron

Review of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew

Review | Contributor(s): Margaret Jane Kidnie

Review of Complete Poems: A Bilingual Edition

Review | Contributor(s): Benedetta Lamanna

Review of Faithful Translators: Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England

Review | Contributor(s): Karalyn Dokurno

Review of A Trick to Catch the Old One

Review | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Review of Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe / The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500–1660

Review | Contributor(s): Brenda M. Hosington

Review of Ariosto e l’ironia della finzione. La ricezione letteraria e figurativa dell’Orlando furioso in Francia, Germania e Italia

Review | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

Review of Sur le sonnet 31 des Regrets. Éléments d’histoire des idées à la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Vanessa Glauser

Review of OEuvres complètes: Tome V. Microcosme

Review | Contributor(s): Brooke D. Di Lauro

Review of Maniérisme et Littérature

Review | Contributor(s): Vivek Ramakrishnan

Review of Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France: Treatises by Caring Physicians and Surgeons (1581–1625)

Review | Contributor(s): Lisa Wynne Smith

The Question of Esoteric Writing in Machiavelli’s Works

Article | Contributor(s): Rasoul Namazi

The question addressed by this article is whether esotericism or secret teachings exist in Machiavelli’s writings. This question has been a major point of contention between the commentators of Machiavelli, with many denying the existence of esoteric teaching in the Machiavellian corpus. This...

“Of rose and pomegarnet the redolent pryncesse”: Fashioning Princess Mary in 1525

Article | Contributor(s): Stephen Hamrick

While a more accurate appraisal of Mary Tudor’s life and reign is underway, historians of literature continue either to ignore or to misinterpret surviving representations of Princess Mary. To begin correcting this failure, the article analyzes a complex 1525 verse portrait of Mary, setting that...