Review of Religious Radicals in Tudor England

Review | Contributor(s): Gary K. Waite

Review of Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting

Review | Contributor(s): Meredith J. Gill

Review of Mourir de rire d'après et avec Rabelais

Review | Contributor(s): Barbara C. Bowen

Re-reading the folie: Louise Labé's Sonnet XVIII and the Renaissance Love Heritage

Article | Contributor(s): Deborah Lesko Baker

Louise Labé’s Sonnet XVIII is far from subtle in its forceful representation of sexual intimacy. After François Rigolot and Ann Rosalind Jones, Deborah Lesko Baker suggests a new reading of this most famous poem, and attempts to demonstrate how Louise Labé employs and ironizes the Petrarchan...

'Stone Walls' and ‘I’ron Bars': Richard Lovelace and the Conventions of Seventeenth-Century Prison Literature

Article | Contributor(s): Raymond A. Anselment

In transcending stone walls and iron bars, Lovelace's well-known song "To Althea, From Prison" celebrates a freedom distinctly at odds with prevailing, often religiously inspired transformations of seventeenth-century carceral realities. Lovelace's celebration of "Minds innocent and quiet"...

Aneau, des Emblèmes d'Alciat et de l'Imagination poétique aux Métamorphoses d'Ovide: pratique d'un commentaire

Article | Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant, Jean-Claude Moisan

La pratique du commentaire chez Aneau, telle qu'elle s'affine dans son oeuvre d'emblématiste, de traducteur et de commentateur, "emblématise" cette tendance renaissante où l'interprétant des textes réitère la glose séculaire tout en s'appropriant cette tradition. Ainsi le commentaire anellien...

"Is Abbot Isidore also among the Prophets?": Protestant Influences upon the Annotated Bible of Isidore Clarius

Article | Contributor(s): R. Gerald Hobbs

This paper attempts to recognize the important role played by Isidore Clarius in the reform of the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century. In his preface, prolegomena and notes to the Bible, Clarius provided a form of pre-Tridentine Biblical scholarship which enjoyed more affinities with evangelical...

Review of Dialectique et connaissance dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas: "Discours sur discours infiniment divers"

Review | Contributor(s): James Dauphiné

Review of Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London

Review | Contributor(s): C.J. Neville

Review of Pio II e la cultura del suo tempo

Review | Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Review of Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750;Englishmen Abroad, Being an Account of Their Travels in the Seventeenth Century

Review | Contributor(s): Kenneth R. Bartlett

Review of L'Amour obscur, poèmes choisis et présentés par Robert Melançon

Review | Contributor(s): Anna Bettoni

Review of Milton 's Epics and the Book of Psalms

Review | Contributor(s): Judith Scherer Herz

Leone de' Sommi and Jewish Theatre in Renaissance Mantua

Article | Contributor(s): Donald Beecher

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his...

Garnier's Historical Sources in Les Juifves

Article | Contributor(s): Damon Di Mauro

Robert Garnier's "Les Juifves" (1583) is generally considered to be the crown jewel of the French Renaissance stage. At the close of his prefatory "Argument" to the play, Garnier obligingly furnishes the historical sources from which he has taken the story of the sufferings of Zedekiah and his...

Les opinions politiques d'un avocat parisien sous Henri IV: Antoine Arnauld

Article | Contributor(s): Michel De Waele

Antoine Arnauld est surtout connu des historiens pour ses attaques virulentes contre les Jésuites. Mais cet avocat parisien a participé à tous les débats qui secouèrent la France durant le règne d'Henri IV. Royaliste convaincu, ardent défenseur des privilèges du parlement, ses opinions politiques...

"Ryse Up Elisa” – Woman Trapped in a Lay: Spenser's "Aprill"

Article | Contributor(s): Marianne Micros

In Edmund Spenser's "Aprill," Colin Cloute, by creating and controlling an idealized woman, has silenced the source of his own creative power. However, Colin's lay contains hints that Elisa is neither perfect nor passive: complex natural and mythological allusions reveal her vitality and...

Review of Melancholy, Genius and Utopia in the Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Douglas H. Parker

Review of Political Writings

Review | Contributor(s): Peter Remnant

Review of Montaigne et la Grèce. Actes du colloque de Calamata et de Messène (23-26 septembre 1988)

Review | Contributor(s): Michel Bideaux