Review of Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Elena Brizio

Review of I venerdì del Petrarca. Seguito da “Profilo biografico del Petrarca” in collaborazione con Luca Marcozzi

Review | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

Review of Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society

Review | Contributor(s): Alexander Lee

Review of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice

Review | Contributor(s): Matteo Soranzo

Review of Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages: The Sacra Romana Rota

Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Mara Desilva

Review of Unexpected Competitive Contexts in Early Opera: Monteverdi’s Milanese Challenge to Florence’s Euridice (1600)

Review | Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Review of Psalms 1-72

Review | Contributor(s): Jannes Smith

Review of Culture ermetiche e Commedia dell’Arte: Tra Giulio Camillo e Flaminio Scala

Review | Contributor(s): Rosalind Kerr

Review of Autobiography and Letters of a Spanish Nun

Review | Contributor(s): Nilab Ferozan

Review of Medieval Europe

Review | Contributor(s): Robin Sutherland-Harris

Review of Le Printemps d’Yver

Review | Contributor(s): Grégoire Holtz

De l’utopie du dialogue de la Renaissance à l’institution de la conversation à l’âge classique

Article | Contributor(s): Jean-François Vallée

Cet article se propose de comparer ces deux moments forts de la simulation écrite de l’échange oral en France que sont le milieu du XVIe siècle pour le genre du « dialogue » (ou du « colloque ») et la deuxième moitié du XVIIe pour celui de la « conversation » (ou de l’« entretien »), et ce, afin...

Dido’s Defense: Joachim Du Bellay’s Bid for Female Patronage

Article | Contributor(s): Beth Landers

This article argues that French poet Joachim Du Bellay’s interest in the Dido figure and his unusual ventriloquizing of female characters are connected to his practice of cultivating female patrons. Du Bellay’s occasional poems, long ignored by scholars, suggest the impact that these patrons had...

Marie Stuart, Lettres de la dernière heure. Contribution à l’étude d’un « sous-genre » oublié

Article | Contributor(s): Colette H. Winn, Hélène Camille Martin

Cet article se propose d’examiner les lettres de la dernière heure écrites par Marie Stuart lors de sa captivité à Fotheringay avant sa mort le 8 février 1587. Adressées à ses contemporains, ces lettres permettent à Marie Stuart de contrôler jusqu’au bout l’image qui restera d’elle-même dans la...

“Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke”: Doctrines of Justification in Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti

Article | Contributor(s): Lauren Shufran

This article claims there is an underlying soteriological conceit in Spenser’s Amoretti (1595) concerning the roles that “works” and “grace” play in the beloved’s requital: roles with theological analogues in justification, the means by which people were declared righteous before God. I show how...

The “Public” of Richard Hooker’s Book 7 of the Laws: Stitching Together the Unjoined

Article | Contributor(s): Rudolph P. Almasy

This article begins with the notion that a text can create and influence a “public,” that is, a group of individuals with common values and aspirations. Richard Hooker’s Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594–1662) is the focus here; specifically, this article shows how book 7, which defends...

Review of Italian Renaissance Diplomacy: A Sourcebook

Review | Contributor(s): Arazoo Ferozan

Review of Ma Bibliothèque poétique. Deuxième partie : Ronsard (tome II)

Review | Contributor(s): François Rouget

Review of La Réforme radicale en Europe au XVIe siècle

Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Baron

Review of Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalk and Other Renaissance Fable Translations

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Albert Johnston