Racz, G.J., trad., et Barbara Fuchs, éd. The Golden Age of Spanish Drama

Article | Contributeur(s): Celine Fournial

Rizzi, Andrea, ed. Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture

Article | Contributeur(s): Brenda M. Hosington

Shagan, Ethan H. The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Article | Contributeur(s): Archie R. MacGregor

Snook, Edith. Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History

Article | Contributeur(s): Heather Campbell

Terpstra, Nicholas ed. Lives Uncovered: A Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe

Article | Contributeur(s): Jacqueline Murray

Thiroux d’Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte. Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings. Ed. and trans. Julie Candler Hayes.

Article | Contributeur(s): Jess Allen

Vintenon, Alice, and Françoise Poulet, eds. La Réforme et la fable. Preface by Frank Lestringant.

Article | Contributeur(s): Willis Goth Regier

Woods, Marjorie Currie. Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom

Article | Contributeur(s): Elena Brizio

Wroth, Lady Mary. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus in Manuscript and Print. Ed. Ilona Bell. Texts by Steven W. May and Ilona Bell.

Article | Contributeur(s): Katharina Logan

Wroth, Mary, Jane Cavendish, and Elizabeth Brackley. Women’s Household Drama: Love’s Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes. Ed. Marta Straznicky and Sara Mueller.

Article | Contributeur(s): Mark Albert Johnston

Preface

Article | Contributeur(s): Marco Piana

Introduction

Article | Contributeur(s): Tamar Herzig

Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix

Article | Contributeur(s): Walter Stephens

In 1522–23, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola was involved in trials that executed ten accused witches. Soon after the trials, he published Strix, sive de ludificatione daemonum, a meticulous defence of witch-hunting. A humanistic dialogue as heavily dependent on classical literature and...

A Compendium of the Wondrous Deeds of Caterina da Racconigi: Hagiography or Philosophical Treatise?

Article | Contributeur(s): Gabriella Zarri

Gianfrancesco Pico’s interest in Caterina da Racconigi, a mystic and prophet revered in Piedmont in the first decades of the sixteenth century, was born out of a scientific curiosity prior to becoming devout admiration. The Compendio delle cose mirabili, Gianfrancesco’s last work, written after...

Fabulae and Imaginatio in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Thought

Article | Contributeur(s): Lucia Pappalardo

In Renaissance philosophy, the term fabula is often used to mean a poetic or fantastic tale that conceals the truth beneath metaphorical language. This article will focus on a rather different concept of fabula found in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s works. To the younger Pico, the entire...

Written in Blood: Blood Devotion in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Staurostichon

Article | Contributeur(s): Marco Piana

This article aims to provide an analysis of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s hymn Staurostichon in view of other examples of Savonarolan blood devotion. Staurostichon describes a supernatural event that took place in Germany between 1501 and 1503, when unusual rainfalls started to mark...

Tearing Plato to Pieces: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonism Denis J.-J. Robichaud

Article | Contributeur(s): Denis J.-J. Robichaud

This article considers Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s understanding of the history of Platonism in his Examen vanitatis. It analyzes his sources and methods for understanding the history of philosophy—genealogical source criticism, historiographical analysis, and comparative history—and...

Praenotio, Prisca Haeresis, and Astrology: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola between Savonarola and Giovanni Pico

Article | Contributeur(s): Ovanes Akopyan

This article considers the place of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s ideas within the astrological debates that arose in Renaissance Italy after the publication of the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco Pico’s famous uncle....

Introduction: Special Issue, Women’s Authorial Agency and Print Culture

Article | Contributeur(s): Marie-France Guénette

Flanders, Julia. Women Writers Online

Article | Contributeur(s): Erin A. McCarthy