Renaissance Quarterly Books Received Oct.–Dec. 2009 (62.4)

EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:

Agrippa, Camillo. Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise. Ed. Kenneth C. Mondschein. New York: Italica Press, 2009. xciv + 138 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $20. ISBN: 978–1–59910–129–3.

Alighieri, Dante. Rime: Giovanili e della Vita Nuova. Note di Manuele Gragnolati. Ed. Teodolinda Barolini. Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2009. 543 pp. index. €11.50. ISBN: 978–88–17–02879–0.

Andreatta, Michela. Gersonide: Commento al Cantico dei cantici nella traduzione ebraico-latina di Flavio Mitridate. Centro Internazionale di Cultura “Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola” Studi Pichiani 14. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009. xiii + 206 pp. index. tbls. bibl. €25. ISBN: 978–88–222–5905–9.

Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation. Trans. David R. Slavitt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xiv + 672 pp. gloss. $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–03535–5.

Cella, Roberta. La Documentazione Gallerani-Fini nell’Archivio di Stato di Gent (1304–1309). Memoria Scripturarum 4. Testi in Volgare I. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009. xiii + 407 pp. index. illus. €62. ISBN: 978–88–8450–312–1.

de Nantes y Barrera, Olivia Sabuco. Große Welt – kleine Welt – verkehrte Welt: Die philogyne Naturphilosophie der Renaissance–Denkerin Olivia Sabuco de Nantes y Barrera. Ed. Marlen Bidwell-Steiner. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag Ges.m.b.H., 2009. 217 pp. bibl. €32.90. ISBN: 978–3–7065–4713–0.

de Seyssel, Claude. Les Louenges du roy Louys XIIe de ce nom (1508). Les Classiques de la Pensée Politique 21. Eds. Patricia Eichel-Lojkine and Laurent Vissière. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 282 pp. index. illus. gloss. $52. ISBN: 978–2–600–01278–2.

Erasmus, Desiderius. Annotationes in Novum Testamentum (Pars Quinta): Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. Vol. 9 of Opera omnia. Ed. M. L. van Poll-Van de Lisdonk. Leiden: Brill, 2009. viii + 483 pp. index. illus. bibl. $176. ISBN: 978–90–04–17564–8.

Gaspard, Dominique. Mercuriade: Tragédie (1605). Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 93. Ed. Alain Cullière. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 267 pp. index. gloss. bibl. €54.65. ISBN: 978–2–600–01310–9.

Ginés de Sepúlveda, Juan. Obras Completas: Epistolario. Vols. VIII–IX. Eds. Ignacio J. García Pinilla and Julián Solana Pujalte. Pozoblanco: Ayuntamiento de Pozoblanco, 2007. cdxxiii + 412 pp. index. append. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 978–84–95714–13–8, 14–5, 24–4.

Mackay, Christopher S. The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x + 658 pp. map. $29.99. ISBN: 978–0–521–74787–5.

Piccolomini, Eneas Silvius. Historia Austrialis. Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series 24, vols. 1–2. Eds. Martin Wagendorfer and Julia Knödler. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2009. ccvi + 987 pp. index. tbls. €115. ISBN: 978–3–7752–0224–4.

Pitcairne, Archibald. The Latin Poems: Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae. Ed. John and Winifred MacQueen. Assen: Royal Van Gorcum BV, 2009. xvi + 484 pp. index. n.p. ISBN: 978–90–232–4599–5.

Schumann, Marie-Françoise. Salmon Macrin und sein Werk unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Carmina ad Gelonidem von 1528 und 1530. Hamburger Beiträge zur Neulateinischen Philologie, Band 6. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009. xi + 495 pp. append. tbls. bibl. €49.90. ISBN: 978–3–643–10304–8.

Sidney, Philip, and Mary Sidney. The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney. Oxford World’s Classics. Eds. Hannibal Hamlin, Michael G. Brennan, and Margaret Hannay. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xliii + 337 pp. chron. bibl. $18.95. ISBN: 978–0–19–921793–9.

Smith, Warren S., and Clark A. Colahan, eds. Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque: Juan Maldonado’s Ludus Chartarum, Pastor Bonus, and Bacchanalia. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, Vol. 24. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009. 291 pp. illus. bibl. $69.50. ISBN: 978–90–5867–708–2.

Weigel, Valentin. De vita beata; De luce et caligine divina; Vom seligen Leben. Valentin Weigel, Sämtliche Schriften, Neue Edition, Vol. 2. Ed. Horst Pfefferl. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2009. xlviii + 200 pp. index. illus. bibl. €386. ISBN: 978–3–7728–1841–7.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE: Bouchard, Constance Brittain, ed. Knights in History and Legend. Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2009. 304 pp. index. illus. map. gloss. chron. $40. ISBN: 978–155407–480–8.

Fiaschi, Silvia. Repertorio delle traduzioni umanistiche a stampa: Secoli XV–XVI. Il Ritorno dei Classici nell’Umanesimo, III.5. Vols 1, 2. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008. lxxviii + 1844 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. €240. ISBN: 978–88–8450–323–7.

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800. Exhib. Cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009. 310 pp. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978–1–84822–043–0.

Slive, Seymour. Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009. xi + 252 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–89236–976–8.

ANTHOLOGIES AND TEXTS: Partridge, Loren W. Art of Renaissance Florence 1400–1600. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 239 pp. index. illus. tbls. gloss. chron. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–520–25774–0.

COLLECTIONS AND STUDIES: Alexander, Catherine M. S., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 221 pp. index. illus. chron. $29.99. ISBN: 978–0–521–70819–7 (pbk).

Includes: Catherine M. S. Alexander, “Introduction”; Gordon McMullan, “What is a ‘Late Play’?”; David Lindley, “Blackfriars, Music and Masque: Theatrical Contexts of the Last Plays”; Charles Moseley, “The Literary and Dramatic Contexts of the Last Plays”; Karen Britland, “Politics, Religion, Geography and Travel: Historical Contexts of the Last Plays”; Russ McDonald, “‘You speak a language that I understand not’: Listening to the Last Plays”; Patricia Tatspaugh, “The Winter’s Tale: Shifts in Staging and Status”; Catherine M. S. Alexander, “Cymbeline: The Afterlife”; Virginia Mason Vaughan, “Literary invocations of The Tempest”; Eugene Giddens, “Pericles: The Afterlife”; and Suzanne Gossett, “The Two Noble Kinsmen and King Henry VIII: The Last Last Plays.”

Arciszewska, Barbara, ed. The Baroque Villa: Suburban and Country Residences c. 1600–1800. Wilanów: Wilanów Palace Museum, 2009. ix + 273 pp. index. illus. bibl. $72.50. ISBN: 978–8360959–76–3.

Ardissino, Erminia, and Elisabetta Selmi, eds. Poesia e retorica del Sacro tra Cinque e Seicento. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2009. ix + 526 pp. index. bibl. €35.00. ISBN: 978–88–6274–032–6 (pbk).

Includes: Valentina Gallo, “Platonismo e cristianesimo: esemplarità di un’autobiografia lirica. Le Fiamme di Giraldi Cinzio”; Franco Tomasi, “Letteratura tra devozione e catechesi: il caso di Giovanni Del Bene (1513–1559)”; Monica Bianco, “‘Jesu, dulcis memoria.’ Il breviario laico di Ferrante Carafa”; Elisabetta Selmi, “Ancora su Guido Casoni: la circolazione accademica di un’ode per il Tasso e il dibattio sul poeta-‘teologo mistico’”; Beatrice Bartolomeo, “L’‘ode’ di Guido Casoni del 1602. Appunti metrici”; Paola Lasagna, “Forme di tragedia sacra nel Seicento benacense”; Francesca D’Allessandro, “‘Mentre l’un con l’altro vero accoppio’: il Petrarca di Minturno e la tradizione cristiana”; Paola Zaja, “‘Perch’arda meco del tuo more il mondo.’ Lettura della Rime spirituali di Gabriele Fiamma”; Sabrina Stroppa, “Un capitolo ‘sacro’ della descripio amoris: i ‘mistici enigmi disvelati’ di Pier Matteo Petrucci (1680)”; Achille Olivieri, “Il ‘convivium fabulosum’ di Erasmo sul principe e la voluptas”; Maria Teresa Girardi, “‘Un novello stile d’orazion sacra.’ La predicazione di Cornelio Musso (1511–1574)”; Erminia Ardissino, “Poetiche sacre tra Cinquecento e Seicento”; Carlo Fanelli, “Tre orazioni di Coriolano Martirano al Concilio di Trento”; Laura Fabris, “Francesco Panigarola. Un’oratoria del docere”; Luca Piantoni, “Mirabile cristiano ed eloquenza sacra in Lucrezia Marinelli”; Vittorio Volpi, “Fabiano da Edolo. ‘Il superiore in visita’: trattato o sermoni?”; Elisabetta Selmi, “In margine ad un’edizione: per le ‘Massime’ e l ‘Rime’ di Maria Maddalena Martinengo (1687–1774)”; and Monica Franchi, “Un contributo per l’epistolario di Maria Maddalena Martinengo.”

Beecher, Donald A., ed. Renaissance Comedy: The Italian Masters, Volume II. The Da Ponte Library Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 465 pp. $37.95. ISBN: 078–0–8020–9723–1.

Includes: Donald Beecher, “Introduction: From Italy to England: The Sources, Conventions, and Influence of ‘Erudite’ Comedy”; Bernardo Dovizi Da Bibbiena, “The Calandria/La calandria”; Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Mandragola/La mandragola”; Angelo Beolco (Ruzante), “The Moscheta/La moscheta”; Giovan Maria Cecchi, “The Horned Owl/L’assiuolo”; Anton Francesco Grazzini, “Frate Alberigo/Il frate”; and Giordano Bruni, “The Candlebearer/Il candelaio.”

Berger, Anna Maria Busse, and Massimiliano Rossi, eds. Memory and Invention: Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Art and Music. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009. ix + 175 pp. index. illus. €28. ISBN: 978–88–222–5852–6.

Includes: Alison Cornish, “Volgarizzamenti: To Remember and to Forget”; Stephen Orgel, “Shakespeare and the Art of Forgetting”; Mario Carpo, “Architecture: The Rise of Technical

Design and the Fall of Technical Memory in the Renaissance”; Massimiliano Rossi, “Mente, libro e cosmo nel tardo Cinquecento: il ruolo mnemonico dell’illustrazione nella produzione editoriale di Giovan Paolo Gallucci”; Anna Maria Busse Berger, “Models for Composition in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”; Philippe Canguilhem, “Main mémorielle et invention musicale à la Renaissance”; Stefano Lorenzetti, “Arboream inspicias figuram. Figure e luoghi di memoria nel pensiero e nella pratica musicale tra Cinque e Seicento”; and Lina Bolzoni, “L’arte della memoria e dintorni: studi ed esperienze recenti fra storia, arte e antropologia.”

Bevers, Holm, and Peter Schatborn, eds. Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. xi + 275 pp. index. illus. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–89236–979–9 (pbk).

Includes: Michael Brand, “Foreword”; Lee Hendrix, “Acknowledgements”; S. A. C. Dudok van Heel, “Rembrandt and His Pupils: A Timeline”; Holm Bevers, “Drawing in Rembrandt’s Workshop”; Peter Schatborn and William W. Robinson, “The History of the Attribution of Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils”; and “Catalogue: Rembrandt and His Pupils.”

Bray, Xavier, Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour, and Judy Ozone, eds. The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700. London: National Gallery Company, London, 2009. 208 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978–1–85709–422–0.

Includes: Xavier Bray, “The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700”; Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos, “The Art of Devotion: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting and Sculpture in its Religious Context”; and Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone, “The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Spanish Polychrome Sculpture.”

Brundin, Abigail, and Matthew Treherne, eds. Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiv + 260 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6555–7.

Includes: Abigail Brundin and Matthew Treherne, “Introduction”; Stephen Bowd, “Swarming with Hermits: Religious Friendship in Renaissance Italy, 1490–1540”; Antonio Corsaro, “Manuscript Collections of Spiritual Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Italy”; Abigail Brundin, “Literary Production in the Florentine Academy Under the First Medici Dukes: Reform, Censorship, Conformity?”; Chrysa Damianaki, “Pontormo’s Lost Frescoes in San Lorenzo, Florence: A Reappraisal of their Religious Content”; Tom Nichols, “Defining Genres: The Survival of Mythological Painting in Counter-Reformation Venice”; Harald Hendrix, “The Representation of Suffering and Religious Change in the Early Cinquecento,”; Raymond B.

Waddington, “Aretino, Titian and ‘La Humanità di Cristo’”; Iain Fenlon, “Varieties of Experience: Music and Reform in Renaissance Italy”; Noel O’Regan, “Church Reform and Devotional Music in Sixteenth-Century Rome: The Influence of Lay Confraternies”; and Matthew Treherne, “Liturgy as a Mode of Theological Discourse in Tasso’s Late Works.”

Campbell, Julie D., and Anne R. Larsen, eds. Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xvi + 330 pp. index. illus. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–67384.

Includes: Diana Robin, “Foreword”; Julie D. Campbell and Anne R. Larsen, “Introduction”; Susan Broomhall, “Letters Make the Family: Nassau Family Correspondence at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century”; Meredith K. Ray, “Letters and Lace: Arcangela Tarabotti and Convent Culture in Seicento Venice”; Camilla Russell, “Women, Letters, and Heresy in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Giulia Gonzaga’s Heterodox Epistolary Network”; Leah Chang, “The Gender of the Book: Jeanne de Marnef Edits Pernette du Guillet”; Sharon L. Arnoult, “‘Some Improvement to their Spiritual and Eternal State’: Women’s Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England”; Susan M. Fletch, “The Public Life of Anne Vaughan Lock: Her Reception in England and Scotland”; Sarah Gwyneth Ross, “Esther Inglis: Linguist, Calligrapher, Miniaturist, and Christian Humanist”; Martine van Elk, “Courtliness, Piety, and Politics: Emblem Books by Georgette de Montenay, Anna Roemers Visscher, and Esther Inglis”; Julie D. Campbell, “Crossing International Borders: Tutors and the Transmission of Young Women’s Writing”; Anne R. Larsen, “Journeying Across Borders: Catherine des Roches’s Catalog of Modern Women Intellectuals”; and Carol Pal, “Forming familles d’alliance: Intellectual Kinship in the Republic of Letters.”

Ciappelli, Giovanni, ed. Memoria, famiglia, identità tra Italia ed Europa nell’età moderna. Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Quaderni, 77. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2009. 282 pp. index. €22. ISBN: 978–88–15–13177–5 (pbk).

Includes: Giovanni Ciappelli, “Introduzione”; Claudia Ulbrich, “Libri di casa e di famiglia in area tedesca nel tardo medioevo: un bilancio storiografico”; Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker, “Un universo allo specchio. Teorie dell’educazione e nascita dei diari di bambini alla fine del Settecento”; Sylvie Mouysset, “Scrittura comune e memoria familiare in Francia nell’età moderna (secoli XV–XVIII)”; James S. Amelang, “L’autobiografia popolare nella Spagna moderna. Osservazioni generali e particolari”; James S. Grubb, “I libri di famiglia a Venezia e nel Veneto”; Siglinde Clementi, “Il corpo come sé. Le autotestimonianze del nobile trentino-tirolese Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710)”; Quinto Antonelli, “Dai libri di conti ai libri di famiglia in ambiente contadino trentino tra Sette- e Ottocento”; Giovanni Ciappelli, “L’evoluzione dei modelli di memoria familiare: i libri di famiglia toscani (secoli XVI–XVIII)”;

and Marina Caffiero, “Le scritture della memoria femminile a Roma in età moderna: la produzione monastica.”

Craig, Hugh, and Arthur F. Kinney, eds. Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xx + 234 pp. index. append. tbls. gloss. $99. ISBN: 978–0–521–51623–5.

Includes: Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney, “Introduction”; Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney, “Methods”; Hugh Craig, “The Three Parts of Henry VI”; Arthur F. Kinney, “Authoring Arden of Faversham”; Philip Palmer, “Edmond Ironside and the Question of Shakespearean Authorship”; Timothy Irish Watt, “The Authorship of The Raigne of Edward the Third”; Timothy Irish Watt, “The Authorship of the Hand-D Addition to The Book of Sir Thomas More”; Hugh Craig, “The 1602 Additions to The Spanish Tragedy”; and Arthur F. Kinney, “Transforming King Lear.”

Dimmock, Matthew, and Andrew D. Hadfield, eds. Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiii + 219 pp. index. illus. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6580–9.

Includes: Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield, “Introduction”; Sue Wiseman, “‘Popular Culture’: A Category for Analysis?”; Neil Rhodes, “Orality, Print and Popular Culture: Thomas Nashe and Marshall McLuhan”; Michelle O’Callaghan, “‘Thomas the Scholer’ versus ‘John the Sculler’: Defining Popular Culture in the Early Seventeenth Century”; Lori Humphrey Newcomb, “What is a Chapbook?”; Linda Hutjens, “The Disguised King in Early English Ballads”; Ian Frederick Moulton, “‘Popu-love’: Sex, Love, and Sixteenth-Century Print Culture”; Elisabeth Salter, “What Kind of Horse is it? Popular Devotional Reading during the Sixteenth Century”; Femke Molekamp, “‘Of the Incomparable treasure of the Holy Scriptures’: The Geneva Bible in the Early Modern Household”; Abigail Shinn, “‘Extraordinary discourses of unnecessarie matter’: Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and the Almanac Tradition”; Nandini Das, “Civil Conflicts and Common Brawls: Humanist Astrology and the Italianate Tale in Robert Greene’s Planetomachia”; Thomas Healy, “Elizabeth I at Tilbury and Popular Culture”; Mary Ellen Lamb, “Macbeth and Old Wives’ Tales: Gendering Conflicts in Burke’s Amphibious Subject”; Kevin Killeen, “Powder for Padlocks: The Rhetoric of Thanksgiving and the Politics of Flight in Caroline Plague”; and Peter Burke, “Afterword.”

Disney, Anthony R. The Portuguese in India and Other Studies, 1500–1700. Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS933. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiv + 336 pp. index. tbls. chron. $134.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5994–5.

Includes: Anthony R. Disney, “Preface”; “The Portuguese in India: The first Portuguese India Company, 1628–33”; “The Portuguese Empire in India, c.1550–1650”; “Goa in the 17th century”; “Smugglers and Smuggling in the Western Half of the Estado da Índia in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries”; “Famine and Famine Relief in Portuguese India in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries”; “The Ceremonial Induction of Incoming Viceroys at Goa in the 16th and 17th Centuries”; “Viceroy Linhares and His Era: The Viceroy Count of Linhares at Goa, 1629–1635”; “The Viceroy as Entrepreneur: The Count of Linhares at Goa in the 1630s”; “From Viceroy of India to Viceroy of Brazil?: The Count of Linhares at Court (1636–39)”; “Scaling Down and Holding On: Life in Portuguese Tangier in the Early 17th Century”; “The Fiscal Reforms of Viceroy Linhares at Goa”; “Ex-Viceroy Linhares and the Galleys of Sicily, 1641–44”; “Travel and Communications by Land and by Sea: The Portuguese and Foreign European Overland Merchants Trading between the Eastern Mediterranean and South and Southwest Asia, c. 1515–1645”; “The World of Long-Distance Voyaging in the 17th Century: The Lisbon-Goa Fleet of 1629 as a Case Study”; “The Gulf Route from India to Portugal in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Couriers, Traders and Image-Makers”; “First Encounters in Early Portuguese Travel Literature”; “The Portuguese and Saint Helena”; “Historiography and Problems of Interpretation: Vasco da Gama’s Reputation for Violence: The Alleged Atrocities at Calicut in 1502”; and “Charles Boxer as a biographer: A Preliminary Evaluation.”

Dixon, C. Scott, Dagmar Freist, and Mark Greengrass, eds. Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern Europe. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. x + 301 pp. index. illus. tbls. $114.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6668–4.

Includes: C. Scott Dixon, “Introduction: Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern Europe”; Willem Frijhoff, “How Plural were the Religious Worlds in Early-Modern Europe? Critical Reflections from the Netherlandic Experience”; Wayne Te Brake, “Emblems of Coexistence in a Confessional World”; Maria Craciun, “Art, Religious Diversity and Confessional Identity in Early-Modern Transylvania”; Keith P. Luria, “The Power of Conscience? Conversion and Confessional Boundary Building in Early-Modern France”; Karl Vocelka, “The Counter-Reformation and Popular Piety in Vienna – A Case Study”; Peter Marshall, “Protestants and Fairies in Early-Modern England”; Alexandra Walsham, “In Sickness and in Health: Medicine and Inter-Confessional Relations in Post-Reformation England”; Judith Pollmann, “Catholics and Community in the Revolt of the Netherlands”; Dagmar Freist, “Crossing Religious Borders: The Experience of Religious Difference and its Impact on Mixed Marriages in Eighteenth-Century Germany”; Benjamin J. Kaplan, “Intimate Negotiations: Husbands and Wives of Opposing Faiths in Eighteenth-Century Holland”; Bertrand Forclaz, “The Emergence of Confessional Identities: Family Relationships and Religious Coexistence in Seventeenth-Century Utrecht”; Dorothea Nolde, “Religion and the Display of Power: A Wuerttemberg Prince Abroad”; and Mark Greengrass, “Afterword: Living Religious Diversity.”

Epp, Maureen, and Brian Power, eds. The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xv + 291 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5483–4.

Includes: John Haines, “A Sight-Reading Vielle Player from the Thirteenth Century”; Andrew Hughes, “The Story of O: A Variant in the Becket Office”; Brian E. Power, “Rubrics in Trent 93 and Trent 90: A Performer’s Guide?”; Honey Meconi, “The Ghost of Perfection: Some Thoughts on the Munich Partbooks”; Maureen Epp, “Reading the Signs: Notation and Performance in the French Popular Song Repertory”; Leslie Korrick, “Vincenzo Galilei’s Re-Vision of Renaissance Tuning: Trading on Nature and Art”; Randall Rosenfeld, “Possible Origins of the Lo Dances, and Their Performance Implications”; Keith Polk, “Chamber Musicians, Singers and Performance Practices in the Early Fifteenth Century”; Jennifer Nevile, “A Measure of Moral Virtue: Women, Dancing and Public Performance in Fifteenth-century Italy”; Barbara Sparti, “Irregular and Asymmetric Galliards: The Case of Salamone Rossi”; Robert Toft, “Limitations of Meaning: Text and Context in Monteverdi’s Baci soavi e cari”; and Jennifer Bain, “Hooked on Ecstasy: Performance ‘Practice’ and the Reception of the Music of Hildegaard of Bingen.”

Friedman, David H., Julian Gardner, and Margaret Haines, eds. Arnolfo’s Moment: Acts of an International Conference (Florence, Villa I Tatti, May 26–27, 2005). Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, vol. 23. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009. xxxv + 297 pp. illus. €49. ISBN: 978–88–222–5820–5.

Includes: Marvin Trachtenberg, “The Roaring ’90s: ‘Arnolfo’ and the Moment of Florentine Art”; Franklin Toker, “Arnolfo di Cambio and the Beginnings of Artistic Identity”; Luciano Bellosi, “Arnolfo e il Pulpito del Duomo di Siena”; Serena Romano, “La pittura al tempo di Arnolfo. Ancora una volta sul Maestro d’Isacco”; Valerio Ascani, “La traccia di Arnolfo nella cultura artistica trecentesca a Firenze e le sue origini”; Claudia Bolgia, “Santa Maria in Aracoeli and Santa Croce. The Problem of Arnolfo’s Contribution”; Caroline Bruzelius, “The Labor Force South and North: Workers and Builders in the Angevin Kingdom”; Sible de Blaauw, “Arnolfo’s High Altar Ciboria and Roman Liturgical Traditions”; Julian Gardner, “Arnolfo di Cambio: from Rome to Florence”; David Friedman, “Urban Design without Maps”; John M. Najemy, “The Beginnings of Florence Cathedral: A Political Interpretation”; George Dameron, “Cathedral,Clergy and Commune in the Age of Arnolfo di Cambio”; Anna Benvuti, “Arnolfo e Reparata. Percorsi semantici nella dedicazione della cattedrale fiorentina”; Marica S. Tacconi, “Architecture, Liturgy and Music in Arnolfo’s Florence: The Case of Santa Maria del Fiore”; Enrica Neri Lusanna, “Dietro le quinte di una mostra. Riflessioni ‘in itinere’ sulle opere di Arnolfo a Firenze”; and Timothy Verdon, “Marian Themes in the Façade of Santa Maria del Fiore.”

Giacone, Franco, ed. La Langue De Rabelais – La Langue De Montaigne: Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance No. CDLXII. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 603 pp. index. illus. tbls. n.p. ISBN: 978–2–600–01239–3.

Includes: Franco Giacone, “Introduction et remerciements”; Mireille Huchon, “Rabelais et le vulgaire illustre”; Guy Demerson, “Dr Rabelais: Observation linguistique et littéraire”; Jean Céard, “Remarques sur le vocabulaire médical de Rabelais”; Jean Lecointe, “Rabelais et le vocabulaire de las scolastique médiévale: Lexique parodiém lexique assumé?”; Isabelle Garnier-Mathez, “Langue et intertexualité: La qualification adjectivale, signe de connivence évangélique chez Rabelais”; François Rigolot, “Parataxe et hypotaxe chez Rabelais: Enjeux sémantiques de las stylistique”; Gabriella Adamo, “Su alcuni détournements di forms figées in Rabelais”; Claude La Charité, “Rabelais et la catégorie stylistique du ruparos”; Michèle Clément, “Le jargon des gueux chez Rabelais”; Giuseppe di Stefano, “L’acception ludique: Rabelais”; Christophe Clavel, “Création lexicale et performance satirique”; Myriam Marrache-Gouraud, “Le lexique grivois de Rabelais”; Olivier Soutet, “Quand si bien que perce sous si que. Quelques hypothèses sur les raisons sémantiques profondes d’un aménagement morphologique amorcé dans le français du XVIe siècle”; Louis Lobbes, “De Rabelais à Montaigne en passant par Erasme: Les Apophthegmes”; Eliane Kotler, “Ici de Rabelais à Montaigne”; Richard Cooper, “Conclusions”; Alain Legros, “Ici Essais”; Emmanuel Naya, “Les mots ou les choses: Le nouveau langage à l’essai”; André Tournon, “Les palimpsestes du ‘langage coupé’”; Bernard Combettes, “Les constructions à détachement chez Montaigne: Le cas des topicalisations”; Marie-Luce Demonet, “Interjection et exclamation chez Montaigne: L’expression des affects”; Jean-Charles Monferran, “Le ‘dictionaire tout à parte(s)oi’ de Montaigne: quelques remarques sur les mots des métiers et les mots ‘paysans’ dans les Essais”; Gérard Milhe-Poutingon, “Sur la dislocation des relatives indéfinies dans les Essais”; Claire Badiou-Monferran, “Les binômes (para-)synonymique dans les Essais de Montaigne: Etude des variants”; Bénédicte Boudou, “La Langue des proverbes dans les Essais”; Vân Dung Le Flanchec, “Montaigne et le ‘magasin des mots et des figures.’ Le travial de la métaphore dans la langue des Essais”; Françoise Argod-Dutard, “L’écriture du mouvement dans le livre III des Essais: Aspects syntaxiques et stylistiques”; Nicola Panichi, “I ‘sileni’ di Montaigne. Linguaggio e arte della scrittura”; Ilana Zinguer, “Retenir sa langue: Stratégie affective ou diplomatique? La parole vive des silences”; Giovanni Dotoli, “Montaigne: S’écrire au jour le jour”; Paul J. Smith, “‘Son dire au faict de la langue françoise est admirable’: Pieter van Veen, lecteur de Montaigne”; and Franco Giacone, “La source du vers Che ricordarsi il ben doppia la noia de Michel de Montaigne.”

Harrán, Don, ed. Sarra Copia Sulam: Jewish Poet and Intellectual In Seventeenth-Century Venice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxxi + 598 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $35.00. ISBN: 978–0–226–77989–8 (pbk).

Includes: Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr., “The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe: Introduction To The Series”; Don Harrán, “Volume Editor’s Introduction”; “Volume Editor’s Bibliography”; “Letters to Sarra Copia from Her Christian Correspondent Ansaldo Cebà (1618–22)”; “Letter from Sarra Copia to Isabella della Tolfa (1623)”; “References to Sarra Copia in a Second Collection of Ansaldo Cebà’s Letters (1623)”; “Letter from Baldassare Bonifaccio to Sarra Copia (End of 1619)”; “Sarra Copia’s Letter in Response (10 January 1620)”; “Excerpts from Baldassare Bonifaccio’s ‘Discourse on the Immortality of the Soul’ (June 1621)”; “Sarra Copia’s Manifesto in Self-Defense (July 1621)”; “Portion of a Letter by Baldassare Bonifaccio (December 1621)”; “‘Notices from Parnassus’ (1626 or Thereafter)”; “Excerpts from Numidio Paluzzi’s Rime, as edited by Alessandro Berardelli (1626)”; “Letter by Angelico Aprosio (Undated, Though Based on a Report from 1637)”; “Dedication to Sarra Copia from Leon Modena’s Play Ester (1619)”; “Two Poems by Gabriele Zinano and a Poem by Sarra Copia in Response (Probably 1622–23)”; and “Leon Modena’s Epitaph for Sarra Copia’s Tombstone (1644).”

Hatfield, Rab A., ed. Sandro Botticelli and Herbert Horne: New Research. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xvi + 284 pp. index. illus. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 978–88–95250–04–4. Includes: Rab Hatfield, “Some Misidentifictions in and of Works by Botticelli”; Barbara Deimling, “Who Tames the Centaur? The Identification of Botticelli’s Heroine”; Louis A. Waldman, “Botticelli and His Patrons: The Arte del Cambio, the Vespucci, and the Compagnia dello Spirito Santo in Montelupo”; Jonathan K. Nelson, “‘Botticelli’ or ‘Filippino’? How to Define Authorship in a Renaissance Workshop”; Caroline Elam, “Herbert Horne: ‘A Kind of Posteritorious Distinction’”; and Antonella Francini, “Herbert Horne and an English ‘Fable’ for Botticelli.”

Kümin, Beat, ed. Political Space in Pre-industrial Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiii + 282 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6072–9.

Includes: James C. Scott, “Preface”; Beat Kümin, “Introduction”; Henry J. Cohn, “Representing Political Space at a Political Site: The Imperial Diets of the Sixteenth Century”; Ronald G. Asch, “The Princely Court and Political Space in Early Modern Europe”; James R. Brown, “Drinking Houses and the Politics of Surveillance in Pre-industrial Southampton”; Peter Clark, “Politics, Clubs and Social Space in Pre-industrial Europe”; Ian D. Whyte, “Political Spaces and Parliamentary Enclosure in an Upland Context: Cumbria c. 1760–1840”; Christine Carpenter, “Political and Geographical Space: The Geopolitics of Medieval England”; Alexander Schlaak, “Social Space and Urban Conflict: Unrest in the German Imperial City of Esslingen am Neckar”; Steve Hindle and Beat Kümin, “The Spatial Dynamics of Parish Politics: Topographies of Tension in English Communities, c. 1350–1640”; David Zaret, “Petitioning Places and the

Credibility of Opinion in the Public Sphere in Seventeenth-Century England”; Andreas Würgler, “Which Switzerland? Contrasting Conceptions of the Early Modern Swiss Confederation in European Minds and Maps”; Tobias B. Hug, “Outwitting Power: Bogus Kings and Officials in Early Modern England”; Bernard Capp, “Comment from a Historical Perspective”; and Mike Crang, “Spaces in Theory, Spaces in History and Spatial Historiographies.”

Léonard, Monique, Xavier Leroux, and François Roudaut, eds. Le lent brassement des livres, des rites, et de la vie: Mélanges offerts à James Dauphiné. Presses Universitaires de la Faculté des Lettres de Toulon Babeliana, 11. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2009. 1033 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €125. ISBN: 978–2–7453–1978–4. Includes: François Moureau, “Préface”; Hélène Gallé, “Aymerie le Petit. La prise de Narbonne dans le manuscrit V4 de la Chanson de Roland et dans quelques récits en prose”; Philippe Walter, “Un navire nommé La Reine de Saba: Traditions apocryphes ésotérisme dans un épisode de la Quête su saint Graal”; Miha Pintarič, “La ‘fin’amor’: quelle harmonie? Le rapport problématique entre l’amour humain et l’harmonie du monde dans la poésie de quelques troubadours du XIIe siècle”; Monique Léonard, “Une bibliothèque dispersée dans un dit du XIIIe siècle: Les Departement des Livres”; Philippe Ménard, “Réflexions sur le prologue des différentes versions du Devisements du Monde de Marco Polo”; G. Matteo Roccati, “Les ‘autorités’ antiques dans la Moralité de Fortune et Povreté”; Bernard Guidot, “Karles li Magnes dans la littérature épique: variations littéraires du Moyen Âge à la Bibliothèque Bleue”; Jean Lacroix, “Les neiges de l’au–delà (l’hiver de la Pâque dantesque)”; Nathalie Gassier, “L’heritage de Dante dans Le Chemin de longue etude de Christine de Pisan : de la connaissance à la reconnaissance”; Pierre Servet, “Théâtre des mystéres, corps des martyrs et harmonie du monde: l’exemple de la Vie de sainct Christofle”; Cesare Vasoli, “Le profezie e la loro tradizione nella cultura quattrocentesca”; Véronique Duché-Gavet, “L’Heptaméron et la fiction sentimentale”; Estelle Grosso, “Le rire dans l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre”; Philippe de Lajarte, “La vision des arts libéraux dans la troisième Livre des Prisons: un humanisme théocentrique”; Catherine Langlois-Pezeret, “Des Poemata aux Fata: Dolet, metteur en scène de sa propre carrière”; Xavier Leroux, “L’Abraham sacrifiant de Théodore de Bèze: entre mystère et tragédie”; Frank Lestringant, “La Terre percée et la Lettre des Antipodes. À propos du IVe dialogue du Cymbalum Mundi”; Josiane Rieu, “L’inspiration et l’harmonie du monde dans les Odes de Ronsard”; Yvonne Bellenger, “Les Inventions Du Bellay (1552): une promesse de conversion?”; Bénédicte Boudou, “Henri Estienne et la simplicité de l’âge d’or dans l’Apologie pour Hérodote”; Jean-Claude Margolin, “Théorie et pratique de l’énigme chez Alexandre Van den Busche alias Sylvain de Flandre”; Richard Crescenzo, “La réflexion sur les langues dans l’ouevre de Louis Le Roy, traducteur et historien”; Jean-Luc Martinet, “Quelle dignité pour l’homme dans les Semaines de Du Bartas?”; Emmanuel Rousse, “Le statut de la digression dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas”; Denis Bjaï, “Un commentateur en quête d’auteur: Pantaleon Thévenin entre Ronsard et Du Bartas”; Gilles Banderier, “Johann Valentin Andreae, rosicrucien

et traducteur de Du Bartas”; Myriam Jacquemier, “Dieu messager, dieu imagé. Deux rhétoriques du sacré à la fin de la Renaissance”; Guylaine Pineau, “Ambroise Paré et le beau mot ‘Abracadabra’”; Christian Desplat, “Brantôme, Discours sur les colonels de l’infanterie de France: l’invention du soldat moderne”; Franco Giacone, “Pontus de Tyard et le Vatican. Trois documents inédits de Pontus de Tyard au pape Paul III”; François Roudaut, “Remarques sur Fantaisie dans L’Encyclie (1571) et dans La Galliade (1578) de Guy Le Fèvre de la Boderie”; Hélène Charpentier, “Pierre-Victor Cayet, “chronologue” de la Navarre et de la France médiévales”; Claude-Gilbert Dubois, “Dieux cruels et victimes expiatoires. Passions, pressions, répressions chez deux heroïnes littéraires du XVIIe siècle: Lady Macbeth de Shakespeare et Phèdre de Racine”; Christine Queffélec, “Les Sonnets de Shakespeare, une illustration du monde à l’envers?”; Mary-Madeleine Fragonard, “La Gloire et la Honte: les portraits aux murs des bibliothèques”; Franck Greiner, “Amour et magie dans quelques romans français de l’âge baroque”; Jean-Claude Ternaux, “Hector de Montchrestien et le songe tragique”; Daniel Aris, “Autour de Scarron au Marais: libertins et érudits”; Daniel Bilous, “Quand l’hommage oblige”; Gilbert Romeyer-Dherbey, “Sensation et temporalité chez Marcel Proust”; Martine Sagaert, “Le voyage d’André Gide en Russie soviétique en 1936: de la mise à l’épreuve au retour aux sources”; Christian Manso, “Contribution à l’approche de Don Juan: El Anti-Tenorio (1944) d’Andrés Revesz”; Toader Saulea, “Éclair et dire-éclair chez René Char: la roue en amont du char”; Dairine O’Kelly, “Les idées, les images, les mots et les choses (Lecture de Magritte)”; André-Alain Morello, “Parfums du monde, odeur de mots. Gracq et les flacons de Baudelaire”; Néstor Salamanca-Leon, “J.-M. G. Le Clézio et le Nouveau Monde”; Marie-Thérèse Garcia, “Le miroir: dualité et duplicité dans Le Tableau du maître flamand d’Arturo Pérez-Reverte”; Arnaud de Vallouit, “Dieu ou l’autoreverse. Ec[h]ographie et mémoires virtuel[le]s”; and Grace Schulman, “Let There Be Translators!”

Meier, Hans Jakob, and Norberto Gramaccini, eds. Die Kunst Der Interpretation: Italienische Reproduktionsgrafik 1485–1600. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009. 518 pp. append. illus. bibl. €98. ISBN: 978–3–422–06872–8.

Nardizzi, Vin, Stephen Guy-Bray, and Will Stockton, eds. Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. vii + 247 pp. index. illus. $114.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–7608–0.

Includes: Stephen Guy-Bray and Will Stockton, “Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze”; Will Fisher, “A Hundred Years of Queering the Renaissance”; Goran Stanivukovi , “Beyond Sodomy: What is Still Queer about Early Modern Queer Studies”; James M. Bromley, “‘Let if Suffise’: Sexual Acts and Narrative Structure in Hero and Leander”; Jennifer Drouin, “Diana’s Band: Safe Spaces, Publics, and Early Modern Lesbianism”; Julie Crawford,

“Women’s Secretaries”; Laurie Shannon, “The Touch of Office: Supernumerary Economies and the Tudor Public Figure”; Vin Nardizzi, “Grafted to Falstaff and Compounded with Catherine: Mingling Hal in the Second Tetralogy”; Stephen Guy-Bray, “Andrew Marvell and Sexual Difference”; Graham Hammill, “Sexuality and Society in the Poetry of Katherine Phillips”; Will Stockton, “Adam and Eve and the Failure of Heterosexuality”; and Madhavi Menon, “Afterword: Period Cramps.”

Pincombe, Mike, and Cathy Shrank, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature 1485–1603. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2009. 832 pp. index. illus. bibl. $150. ISBN: 978–0–1992–0588–2. Includes: Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank, “Prologue: The Travails of Tudor Literature”; Alexandra Gillespie, “Caxton and the Invention of Printing”; Kent Cartwright, “Dramatic Theory and Lucres’ ‘Discretion’: The Plays of Henry Medwall”; Daniel Wakelin, “Stephen Hawes and Courtly Education”; Jane Griffiths, “Having The Last Word: Manuscript, Print, and the Envoy in The Poetry of John Skelton”; Joyce Boro, “All for Love: Lord Berners and the Enduring, Evolving Romance”; John N. King, “Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Printing of Religious Propaganda”; James Simpson, “Rhetoric, Conscience, and the Playful Positions of Sir Thomas More”; Peter Happé, “John Bale and Controversy: Readers and Audiences”; Cathy Shrank, “Sir Thomas Elyot and the Bonds of Community”; Thomas Betteridge, “John Heywood and Court Drama”; Jason Powell, “Thomas Wyatt and Francis Bryan: Plainness and Dissimulation”; Hannibal Hamlin, “Piety and Poetry: English Psalms From Miles Coverdale to Mary Sidney”; Janel Mueller, “Katherine Parr and Her Circle”; Philip Schwyzer, “John Leland and His Heirs: The Topography of England”; Mark Rankin, “Biblical Allusion and Argument in Luke Shepherd’s Verse Satires”; Christopher Warley, “Reforming the Reformers: Robert Crowley and Nicholas Udall”; R. W. Maslen, “William Baldwin and the Tudor Imagination”; Wolfgang G. Müller, “Directions for English: Thomas Wilson’s Art of Rhetoric, George Puttenhams’ Art of English Poesy, and the Search for Vernacular Eloquence”; Alan Bryson, “Order and Disorder: John Proctor’s History of Wyatt’s Rebellion (1554)”; Alice Hunt, “Marian Political Allegory: John Heywood’s The Spider and the Fly”; Scott Lucas, “Hall’s Chronicle and the Mirror for Magistrates: History and the Tragic Pattern”; Mike Pincombe, “A Place in the Shade: George Cavendish and De Casibus Tragedy”; Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, “What is My Nation? Language, Verse, and Politics in Tudor Translations of Virgil’s Aeneid”; Jonathan Woolfson, “Thomas Hoby, William Thomas, and Mid-Tudor Travel to Italy”; Steven W. May, “Popularizing Courtly Poetry: Tottel’s Miscellany and its Progeny”; Laurie Shannon, “Minerva’s Men: Horizontal Nationhood and the Literary Production of Googe, Turbervile, and Gascoigne”; Phil Withington, “‘For This is True or els I Do Lye’: Thomas Smith, William Bullein, and Mid-Tudor Dialogue”; Jessica Winston, “English Seneca: Heywood to Hamlet”; Dermot Cavanagh, “Political Tragedy in the 1560s: Cambises and Gorboduc”; Andrew Escobedo, “John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, 1563–1583: Antiquity and the Affect of History”; Jonathan Gibson,

“Tragical Histories, Tragical Tales”; Andrew Hadfield, “Foresters, Ploughmen, and Shepherds: Versions of Tudor Pastoral”; Paul Whitfield White, “Interludes, Economics, and the Elizabethan Stage”; Syrithe Pugh, “Ovidian Reflections in Gascoigne’s Steel Glass”; D. J. B. Trim, “The Art of War: Martial Poetics from Henry Howard to Philip Sidney”; Elizabeth Heale, “Thomas Whithorne and First-Person Life-Writing in the Sixteenth Century”; Janette Dillon, “Pageants and Propaganda: Robert Langham’s Letter and George Gascoigne’s Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth”; Helen Moore, “Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadias”; Jennifer Richards, “Gabriel Harvey’s Choleric Writing”; Fred Schurink, “The Intimacy of Manuscript and the Pleasure of Print: Literary Culture from The Schoolmaster to Euphues”; Katharine Wilson, “Revenge and Romance: George Pettie’s Palace of Pleasure and Robert Green’s Pandosto”; David Bevington, “Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Nathaniel Woodes’s The Conflict of Conscience”; Lorna Hutson, “Fictive Acts: Thomas Nashe and the Mid-Tudor Legacy”; Andrew Hiscock, “‘Hear My Tale or Kiss My Tail!’ The Old Wife’s Tale, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, and the Popular Cultures of Tudor Comedy”; and Helen Cooper, “Epilogue: Edmund Spenser and the Passing of Tudor Literature.”

Radke, Gary M., ed. Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture. Exhib. Cat. High Museum of Art New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 216 pp. append. illus. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978–0–300–15473–3.

Includes: Michael E. Shapiro and Michael Brand, “Director’s Foreword and Acknowledgments”; Gary M. Radke, “Introduction. Leonardo: The Mind of the Sculptor”; “Leonardo, Student of Sculpture”; Martin Kemp, “What is Good about Sculpture? Leonardo’s Paragone Revisited”; Pietro C. Marani, “Leonardo, The Vitruvian Man, and the De statua Treatise”; Andrea Bernardoni, “Leonardo and the Equestrian Monument for Francesco Sforza: The Story of an Unrealized Monumental Sculpture”; Gary M. Radke and Darin J. Stine, “An Abiding Obsession: Leonardo’s Equestrian Projects, 1507–1519”; Philippe Sénéchal, “Giovan Francesco Rustici, With and Without Leonardo”; and Tommaso Mozzati, “Florence and the Bronze Age: Leonardo and Casting, the War of Pisa, and the Dieci di Balìa.”

Renner, Bernd, ed. La satire dans tous ses états: Le meslange satyricque à la Renaissance française. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 92. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 390 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. €77.42. ISBN: 978–2–600–01290–4 (pbk).

Includes: Bernd Renner, “Avant-Propos”; Pascal Debailly, “Le Lyrisme satirique d’Horace à la Renaissance et à l’Age Classique”; Cynthia J. Brown, “Visual and Verbal Satire in Pierre Gringore’s Folles Entreprises (1505)”; Mireille Huchon, “Rabelais et les satires de la Nef des Folz de 1530”; Deborah N. Losse, “Parler le latin de leur mère. Code-Switching: Latinisms to Mark Satirical Intent in the Renaissance Tale”; François Rigolot, “Vive la Différence: The

Woman as Satirist in Louise Labé’s Débat de Folie et d’Amour (1555)”; Michèle Clément, “Peut-on faire la satire de la Bêtise? L’exemple des Apophthegmes du Sr Gaulard de Tabourot”; Claude La Charité, “La Mitistoire barragouyne (ca 1550) comme satire historiographique: De la dénonciation de l’historiographie stipendiée à l’invention d’une historiographie humaniste”; Sara Beam, “La Satire politique dans le théâtre de la basoche”; E. Bruce Hayes, ‘De Rire Me Puys Tenir’: Marguerite de Navarre’s Satirical Farces”; Bernd Renner, “Poetic Liberation from Hell: Clément Marot’s L’Enfer”; Jean-Claude Carron, “Stratégies de la Satire du pétrarquisme chez Du Bellay et Ronsard”; Katherine Maynard, “‘Miel Empoisonné’: Satire and Sickness in Ronsard’s Discours des Misères de ce temps”; Charles-Antoine Chamay and Bernd Renner, “Les Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale: Jeux et enjeux d’un texte de Combat”; “Les Satyres Chrestiennes de la Cuisine Papale: Jeux et Enjeux d’un Texte de Combat”; Guy Poirier, “Rires et satires: des mignons et des monstres”; Tom Conley, “From Satyre to Théâtre: Religious Images and Early Mapping of France”; and Martial Martin, “De La Vertu du Catholicon à la Satyre menippee: Les libelles diffamatoires et l’emergence d’une nouvelle conception de la Satire.”

Rodger, N. A. M. Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern. Variorum Collected Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xii + 332 pp. index. $134.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5995–2.

Includes: N. A. M. Rodger, “Cnut’s Geld and the Size of Danish Ships”; “The Naval Service of the Cinque Ports”; “The Development of Broadside Gunnery, 1450–1650”; “The New Atlantic: Naval Warfare in the Sixteenth Century”; “The Military Revolution at Sea”; “Queen Elizabeth and the Myth of Sea-Power in English History”; “The Victualling of the British Navy in the Seven Years’ War”; “Medicine, Administration, and Society in the Eighteenth-Century Royal Navy”; “Mobilizing Seapower in the Eighteenth Century”; “The Naval Chaplain in the Eighteenth Century”; “Medicine and Science in the British Navy of the Eighteenth Century”; “Weather, Geography, and Naval Power in the Age of Sail”; “Form and Function in European Navies, 1660–1815”; “Navies and the Enlightenment”; “Commissioned Officers’ Careers in the Royal Navy, 1690–1815”; “Mutiny or Subversion? Spithead and the Nore”; and “Training or Education: A Naval Dilemma over Three Centuries.”

Rowlands, Alison, ed. Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe. New York City: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2009. index. tbls. $85. ISBN: 978–0–230–55329–3.

Includes: Alison Rowlands, “Not ‘the Usual Suspects’? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe”; Robin Briggs, “Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine”; Rolf Schulte, “Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire”; Rita Voltmer, “Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the

Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)”; Jonathan Durrant, “Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstätt”; Oscar Di Simplicio, “Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly?”; Julian Goodare, “Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland”; Malcolm Gaskill, “Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England”; Willem de Blécourt, “The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period”; and Sarah Ferber, “Possession and the Sexes.”

Singh, Jyotsna G., ed. A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion. Malden: Blackwell Publishers, USA, 2009. vii + 400 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $149.95. ISBN: 978–1–4051–5476–5.

Jyotsna G. Singh, “Introduction: The Global Renaissance”; Daniel Vitkus, “The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon”; Crystal Bartolovich, “‘Travailing’ Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject”; John Michael Archer, “Islam and Tamurlaine’s World-Picture”; Chloë Houston, “Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period”; Andrew Hadfield, “The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire”; Nandini Das, “‘Apes of Imitation’: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India”; Richmond Barbour, “A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company”; Mary C. Fuller, “Where was Iceland in 1600?”; Gerald MacLean, “East by North-East: The English Among the Russians, 1553–1603”; Catherine Ryu, “The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company’s Failure in Japan”; Ian Smith, “The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns”; Matthew Dimmock, “Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s Infidel Trade”; Patricia Parker, “Cassio, Cash and the ‘Infidel 0’: Arithmetic, Double-Entry Bookkeeping, and Othello’s Unfaithful Accounts”; Edward M. Test, “Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser’s Faerie Queene”; Stephen Deng, “‘So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous’: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England”; Barbara Sebek, “Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”; Adam Smyth, “‘The Whole Globe of the Earth’: Almanacs and Their Readers”; Ann Rosalind Jones, “Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan”; Jean E. Howard, “Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy”; Virginia Mason Vaughan, “The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in ‘The Jew of Malta’ and ‘The Knight of Malta’”; and David Morrow, “Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism.”

Solana Pujalte, Julián, ed. La obra de Séneca y su pervivencia: Cinco Estudios. Ciclos de Filología Clásica, 5. Córdoba: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba, 2008. 231 pp. index. illus. bibl. €20.80. ISBN: 978–84–7801–903–8 (pbk).

Includes: Mireille Armisen-Marchetti, “Sénèque écrivain”; Miguel Rodríguez-Pantoja Márquez, “Séneca y los libros”; Marco Buonocore, “La presenza dell’opera di Seneca nei codici della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana tra medioevo e umanesimo”; Carla Maria Monti, “La fortuna di Seneca nell’umanesimo italiano”; and Julián Solana Pujalte, “La memoria de Séneca en las bibliotecas de Córdoba (siglos XV–XVIII).”

Stępkowski, Aleksander, ed. O senatorze doskonałym studia: Prace upamiętniające postać i twórczość Wawrzyńca Goślickiego. Warsaw: Kancelaria Senatu, 2009. 228 pp. append. illus. n.p. ISBN: 978–83–60995–44–0 (pbk).

Includes: Aleksander Stępkowski, “Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki: przyczynek do biografii”; Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, “Z dziejów zwierciadła władcy”; Aleksander Stępkowski, “Senat doby jagiellońskiej”; Jerzy Mańkowski, “Moderator i filozof”; Marek A. Janicki, “O moderowaniu Rzeczypospolitej w czasach Zygmunta Augusta”; Aleksander Stępkowski, “De optimo senatore w świetle arystotelesowskiej Polityki”; Radosław Lolo, “Wawrzyńca Goślickiego wizja ustroju państwa”; Aleksander Stępkowski, “Obecność De optimo senatore za granicą”; Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, “Obecność traktatu Goślickiego w szekspirowskich Hamletach”; Aleksander Stępkowski, “O rozumności człowiecka w De optimo senatore i dziś.”

MONOGRAPHS: Alfani, Guido. Fathers and Godfathers: Spiritual Kinship in Early-Modern Italy. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xi + 273 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6737–7.

Andersson, Daniel. Lord Henry Howard, 1540–1614: An Elizabethan Life. Studies in Renaissance Literature 27. Rochester: D. S. Brewer, 2009. xiv + 221 pp. index. append. bibl. $105. ISBN: 978–1–8438–4209–5.

Ardissino, Erminia. Tempo Liturgico e Tempo Storico Nella “Commedia” Di Dante. Monumenta Studia Instrumenta Liturgica, 2009. vii + 183 pp. index. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 978–8–8209–8145–7.

Badir, Patricia. The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550–1700. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. ix + 300 pp. index. illus. bibl. $38. ISBN: 978–0–268–02215–0.

Benner, Erica. Machiavelli’s Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xv + 525 pp. index. bibl. $75 (cl), $35 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–691–14176–3 (cl), 978–0–691–14177–0 (pbk).

Beretta, Marco. The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking. Sagamore Beach: Watson Publishing International, 2009. 216 pp. index. illus. bibl. $59.95. ISBN: 978–0–88135–350–1.

Bizzocchi, Roberto. Genealogie Incredibili: Scritti di storia nell’Europa moderna. Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Monografie 52. 2nd ed. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2009. 291 pp. index. €22,50. ISBN: 978–88–15–13286–4.

Black, Christopher F. The Italian Inquisition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. vii + 330 pp. index. map. bibl. $55.00. ISBN: 978–0–300–11706–6.

Brewer, John. The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art, and Money. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ix + 310 pp. index. illus. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 978–0–19–539690–4.

Butler, Todd. Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. x + 200 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–5883–2.

Carroll, Stuart. Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv + 345 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–19–922907–9.

Cavallotto, Stefano. Santi nella Riforma: Da Erasmo a Lutero. Sacro/santo (nuova serie), 12. Rome: Viella S.r.l., 2009. 431 pp. index. illus. bibl. €30. ISBN: 978–88–8334–367–4.

Ciappelli, Giovanni. Fisco e società a Firenze nel Rinascimento. Studi e testi del Rinascimento europeo 36. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2009. viii + 298 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. €38. ISBN: 978–88–6372–085–3.

Close, Christopher W. The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525–1550. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. x + 284 pp. index. map. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978–0–521–76020–1.

Coluccia, Giuseppe L. Basilio Bessarione: Lo spirito greco e l’occidente. Accademia delle arti del disegno monografie 15. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009. vii + 443 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €50. ISBN: 978–88–222–5925–7.

Cooper, John R. Wit’s Voices: Intonation in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 254 pp. index. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978–0–87413–059–1.

Cornilliat, François. Sujet caduc, noble sujet: La poésie de la Renaissance et le choix de ses “arguments”. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 458. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 1,240 pp. index. bibl. €91.08. ISBN: 978–2–600–01269–0.

Covington, Sarah. Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. x + 252 pp. index. bibl. $80. ISBN: 978–0–230–61601–1.

Curran, Kevin. Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. ix + 187 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6231–5.

Daniels, Rhiannon. Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340–1520. Italian Perspectives 19. Legenda. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009. xi + 229 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $89.50. ISBN: 978–1–906540–49–4.

DeCoste, Mary-Michelle. Hopeless Love: Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. x + 165 pp. index. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978–0–8020–9684–5.

D’Elia, Anthony Francis. A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 237 pp. index. illus. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–03555–3.

DellaNeva, JoAnn. Unlikely Exemplars: Reading and Imitating beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry. Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 444 pp. index. bibl. $57.50. ISBN: 978–0–97413–055–3.

Earenfight, Theresa M. The King’s Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. xii + 242 pp. index. map. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4185–3.

Eitel-Porter, Rhoda. Der Zeichner und Maler Cesare Nebbia, 1536–1614. Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 18. Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2009. 343 pp. index. append. illus. €90. ISBN: 978–3–7774–9970–3.

Fischel, Angela. Natur im Bild: Zeichnung und Naturerkenntnis bei Conrad Gessner und Ulisse Aldrovandi. Humboldt-schriften zur Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, IX. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2009. 204 pp. index. illus. bibl. €34.90. ISBN: 978–3–7861–2610–2.

Fischer, Erik. Melchior Lorck. 4 vols. Copenhagen: Vandkunsten Publishers, 2009. 956 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. €300. ISBN: 978–8–7913–9361–7.

Fubini, Riccardo. Politica e pensiero politico nell’Italia del Rinascimento: Dallo stato territoriale al Machiavelli. Studi di Storia e Documentazione Storica, 2. Firenze: Edifir-Edizione Firenze, 2009. 303 pp. index. €16. ISBN: 978–88–7970–433–5.

García Hernán, Enrique. Ireland and Spain in the Reign of Philip II. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009. xv + 392 pp. index. bibl. $74.50. ISBN: 978–1–84682–166–0.

Giacomotto-Charra, Violaine. La forme des choses: Poésie et savoirs dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas. Essais de Littérature, Cribles XVIe–XVIIIe siècles. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2009. 316 pp. bibl. €33. ISBN: 978–2–8107–0048–6.

Girouard, Mark. Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540–1640. The Paul Mellon Centre for British Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xx + 516 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978–0–300–09386–5.

Greenstadt, Amy. Rape and the Rise of the Author: Gendering Intention in Early Modern England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xv + 187 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6274–9.

Harrington, Joel F. The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. xvii + 437 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–226–31727–7.

Haye, Thomas. Francesco Rococciolos Mutineis: Interpretation und Kommentar. Noctes Neolatinae: Neo-Latin Texts and Studies 12. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2009. 307 pp. index. bibl. €68. ISBN: 978–3–487–14208–1.

Höfer, Bernadette. Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiii + 245 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6621–9.

Hsia, Florence C. Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits & Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 296 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $45.00. ISBN: 978–0–226–35559–7.

Israëls, Machtelt, ed. Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. 2 vols. Primavera Press/Harvard University Press. Florence: Villi I Tatti, 2009. 624 pp. index. illus. bibl. $120. ISBN: 978–0–674–03523–2.

Kagan, Richard L. Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xiv + 342 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9294–3.

Knapp, Jeffrey. Shakespeare Only. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiii + 238 pp. index. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978–0–226–44571–7.

Knight, Stephen. Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvii + 275 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $27.95. ISBN: 978–0–8014–4365–7.

Kottman, Paul. Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe. Rethinking Theory. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. ix + 196 pp. index. $60. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9371–1.

Maranini, Anna. Così morì l’uranoscopo: Tradizioni, allegorie, e simboli di un’idea da Platone a Camerario. Cesena: Società editrice Il Ponte Vecchio, 2005. 267 pp. index. illus. bibl. €16. ISBN: 978–88–8312–530–4.

_____. Filologia Fantastica: Manilio e i suoi Astronomica. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 1994. 476 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. €50. ISBN: 978–88–15–04543–0.

Martin, A. Lynn. Alcohol, Violence, and Disorder in Traditional Europe. Early Modern Studies 2. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. vii + 269 pp. index. illus. bibl. $48.00. ISBN: 978–1–931112–96–3.

Mattern, Frank. Milton and Christian Hebraism: Forms and Functions of Rabbinic Exegesis in Paradise Lost. Memmingen: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009. 226 pp. index. bibl. €38. ISBN: 978–3–8253–5570–8.

McAdam, R. Ian. Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 2009. 466 pp. index. bibl. $60. ISBN: 978–0–8207–0449–4.

McGee, David, Alan M. Stahl, and Pamela O. Long, eds. The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. 3 Vols. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $65; $75; $45. ISBNs: vol. 1: 978–0–2621–3503–0; vol. 2: 978–0–2621–9590–4; vol. 3: 978–0–2621–2308–2.

McKeown, Adam N. English Mercuries: Soldier Poets in the Age of Shakespeare. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. x + 201 pp. index. illus. bibl. $59.95 (cl), $24.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–8265–1714–2 (cl), 978–0–8265–1663–3 (pbk).

McRae, Andrew. Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 247 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 978–0–521–44837–6.

Menini, Romain. Rabelais et L’Intertexte Platonicien. Études Rabelaisiennes Tome XLVII, Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 461. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 223 pp. index. append. bibl. CHF 122.90. ISBN: 978–2–600–01309–3.

Mentz, Steve. At The Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean. Shakespeare NOW. Harrisburg, PA: Continuum, 2009. ix+118 pp. index. $24.95. ISBN: 978–1–84706–493–6.

Merkle, Benjamin. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Press, 2009. xv + 256 pp. index. illus. map. chron. bibl. $14.99. ISBN: 978–1–5955–5252–5.

Nussdorfer, Laurie. Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. ix + 354 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $65.00. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9204–2.

Okerlund, Arlene N. Elizabeth of York. Queenship and Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xxii + 263 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $85. ISBN: 978–0–230–61827–5.

Osherow, Michele. Biblical Women’s Voices in Early Modern England. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xi + 189 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6674–5.

Patterson, Annabel. Milton’s Words. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. viii + 212 pp. index. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–19–957346–2.

Ramírez Sierra, Hugo Hernán. Fiesta, espectáculo y teatralidad en el México de los conquistadores. Textos y estudios coloniales y de la independencia, Vol. 19. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009. 228 pp. index. bibl. €24. ISBN: 978–84–8489–441–4.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in The Holy Land. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. ix + 131 pp. index. map. bibl. $25.00. ISBN: 978–0–268-04058–1.

Ross, Sarah G. The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 405 pp. index. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–03454–9.

Schwartz, Seth. Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. x + 212 pp. index. append. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–14054–4.

Strocchia, Sharon. Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvi + 261 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978–0–8018–9292–9.

Sumption, Jonathan. The Hundred Years War: Divided Houses. Vol III. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. xvii + 1,006 pp. index. tbls. map. bibl. $45. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4223–2.

Szabari, Antónia. Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. vii + 293 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60.00. ISBN: 978–0–8047–6292–2.

Travis, Peter W. Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. xi + 443 pp. index. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0–268–04235–6.

Van Nierop, H. F. K. Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt. Trans. J. C. Grayson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. x + 297 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–691–13564–9.

Varriano, John. Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy. California Studies in Food and Culture 27. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2009. xi + 259 pp. index. illus. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 978–0–520–25904–1.

Vigliano, Tristan. Humanisme et juste milieu au siècle de Rabelais. Le miroir des humanists. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009. 744 pp. index. bibl. €45. ISBN: 978–2–251–34603–9.

Wallace, William E. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv + 401 pp. index. illus. bibl. $30. ISBN: 978–0–521–11199–7.

Whitford, David M. The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era: The Bible and the Justifications for Slavery. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiv + 211 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6625–7.

Wilkins, Christopher. The Last Knight Errant: Sir Edward Woodville and the Age of Chivalry. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2010. xxii + 234 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. £25. ISBN: 978–1–84885–149–8.

Willemsen, Annemarieke. Back to the Schoolyard: The Daily Practice of Medieval and Renaissance Education. Studies in European Urban History (1100–1800), 15. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. 324 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €68. ISBN: 978–2–503–52599–0.

Williamson, Elizabeth. The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama. Studies in Peformance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. ix + 232 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.99. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6827–5.