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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , Spring 2005 , pp. 360 - 382
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Editions and Translations

Agrippa d’, Aubigné. Petites œuvres meslees suivies de Receueil de vers de Monsieur d’Ayre. Vol. 1, Œuvres complètes. . Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2004. 622 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. €63. ISBN: 2-7453-0988-9. Google Scholar
Leonardo, Bruni. History of the Florentine People: Vol. 2, Books V–VIII. . Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv + 584 pp. index. map. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01066-3. Google Scholar
Pedro, Calderón de la Barca. Life’s a Dream. . Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2004. xiv + 159 pp. gloss. bibl. $35 (cl), $12.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-87081-776-0 (cl), 0-87081-777-9 (pbk).Google Scholar
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Martino of, Como, and, Barzini, Stefania. The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book.. . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. vi + 208 pp. index. illus. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-520-23271-2. Google Scholar
Marguerite, de Valois. Mémoires & Discours: La cité des dames. Saint-Étienne: Université de Saint-Étienne, 2004. 228 pp. gloss. bibl. €8. ISBN: 2-86272-332-0. Google Scholar
Marsilio, Ficino. Le Commentaire de Marsille Ficin, Florentin sur le Banquet d’amour de Platon.. . Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2004. 208 pp. index. gloss. bibl. €43. ISBN: 2-7453-0999-4. Google Scholar
Richard, Kagan, and, Dyer, Abigail, eds. and trans. Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 200 pp. index. map. gloss. $48 (cl), $19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8018-7923-X (cl), 0-8018-7924-8 (pbk).Google Scholar
Andreas, Kühne, and, Kirschner, Stefan, eds. Biographia Copernicana: Die Copernicus-Biographien des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Texte und Übersetzungen. Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2004. xxxiv + 508 pp. + 8 color and 22 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. €228. ISBN: 3-05-003848-9. Google Scholar
Pierre, Le Loyer. La Nephelococugie ou La Nuee des Cocus: Première Adaptation des Oiseaux d’Aristophane en Français. . Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 327 pp. append. gloss. bibl. €52. ISBN: 2-600-00922-1. Google Scholar
Vasco, Mousinho de Castelbranco. Emblemática Lusitana e os Emblemas. . Belgrade: Rubem Amaral, Jr., 2004. 146 pp. index. illus. bibl. n.p. ISBN: n.a. Google Scholar
Jaime, Salom. Three Comedies: Behind the Scenes in Eden, Rigmaroles, The Other William.. . Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2004. x + 227 pp. illus. bibl. $45 (cl), $18.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-87081-780-9 (cl), 0-87081-781-7 (pbk).Google Scholar
Michael, Servetus. Discussion apologétique pour l’astrologie contre un certain médecin. . Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 86 pp. append. bibl. €38. ISBN: 2-600-00950-7. Google Scholar

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE

Charles, Davis, ed. Los aposentos del Corral de la Cruz 1581-1823: Estudio y documentos. Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2004. xiii + 306 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $75. ISBN: 1-85566-061-X. Google Scholar
Andrew, Leibs. Sports and Games of the Renaissance. . Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2004. xvi + 202 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 0-313-32772-6. Google Scholar
Ann, Percy, and, Cazort, Mimi. Italian Master Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004. 288 pp. index. illus. bibl. $48 (cl), $32 (pbk). ISBN: 0-87633-178-9 (cl), 0-87633-179-7 (pbk).Google Scholar
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ANTHOLOGIES AND TEXTS

John N, King ., ed. Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xvi + 394 pp. index. append. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $59.95 (cl), $24.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8122-3794-3 (cl), 0-8122-1877-9 (pbk).Google Scholar
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COLLECTIONS AND STUDIES

Catherine M.S, Alexander ,, ed. Shakespeare and Language. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 294 pp. index. $70 (cl), $24.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-83139-3 (cl), 0-521-53900-5 (pbk). Includes: Jonathan Hope, “Shakespeare and Language: An Introduction”; Stephen Booth, “Shakespeare’s Language and the Language of Shakespeare’s Time”; Muriel St Clare Byrne, “The Foundations of Elizabethan Language”; Terence Hawkes, “Shakespeare’s Talking Animals”; Vivan Salmon, “Some Functions of Shakespearian Word-Formation”; Bridget Cusack, “Shakespeare and the Tune of the Time”; Jill L. Levenson, “Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: The Places of Invention”; Robert Hapgood, “Shakespeare’s Thematic Modes of Speech: Richard II to Henry V”; Inga-Stina Ewbank, “Hamlet and the Power of Words”; Robert Wilcher, “The Art of the Comic Duologue in Three Plays by Shakespeare”; Philippa Berry, “Hamlet’s Ear”; Lynne Magnusson, “‘Voice Potential’: Language and Symbolic Capital in Othello”; Albert H. Tricomi, “The Aesthetics of Mutilation in Titus Andronicus”; George Walton Williams, “‘Time for such a word’: Verbal Echoing in Macbeth”; Lisa Hopkins, “Household Words: Macbeth and the Failure of Spectacle”; and Russ McDonald, “Late Shakespeare: Style and the Sexes.”Google Scholar
Catherine M.S., Alexander, ed. Shakespeare and Politics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 268 pp. index. illus. $70 (cl), $24.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-83623-9 (cl), 0-521-54481-5 (pbk). Includes: John J. Joughin, “Shakespeare and Politics: An Introduction”; Blair Worden, Shakespeare and Politics”; Peter L. Rudnytsky, “Henry VIII and the Deconstruction of History”; Anne Barton, “Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus”; S. Schoenbaum, “Richard II and the Realities of Power”; David George, “Plutarch, Insurrection, and Dearth in Coriolanus”; Pierre Sahel, “Some Versions of Coup d’État, Rebellion, and Revolution”; William C. Carroll, “Language, Politics, and Poverty in Shakespearian Drama”; Margot Heinemann, ‘Demystifying the mystery of state’: King Lear and the World Upside Down”; Mark Matheson, “Venetian Culture and the Politics of Othello”; Paul Franssen, “The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare’s Protestantism as Politics in Disguise”; Günter Walch, “Henry V as Working-House of Ideology”; John Drakakis, “‘Fashion it thus’: Julius Caesar and the Politics of Theatrical Representation”; Terence Hawkes, “Take Me to Your Leda”; E. Pearlman, “Macbeth on Film: Politics”; and Barbara Hodgdon, “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet: Everything’s Nice in America?”Google Scholar
Jean, Balsamo, ed. Les poètes Français de la Renaissance et Pétrarque.. . Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 519 pp. index. illus. bibl. €100. ISBN: 2-600-00947-7. Includes: Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, “Envoi”; Michel Jeanneret, “Avant-propos”; Jean Balsamo, “‘Nous l’avons tous admiré et imité: non sans cause’: Pétrarque en France à la Renaissance: un livre, un modèle, un mythe”; “François 1er, Marot et les origines du pétrarquisme français”; Richard Cooper and Myra Orth, “Un manuscrit peint des ‘Visions de Pétrarque’ traduites par Marot”; Romana Brovia, “Clément Marot e ‘l’umanesimo cristiano’ del Petrarca”; Paola Cifarelli, “Jean Maynier d’Oppède et Pétrarque”; Marie Madeleine Fontaine, “Débats à la cour de France autour du Canzioniere et de ses imitateurs dans les années 1533-1548: I. Mellin de Saint-Gelais”; “Débats à la cour de France autour du Canzioniere et de ses imitateurs dans les années 1533-1548: II. Antoine Héroët”; Nicole Bingen, “Les éditions lyonnaises de Pétrarque dues à Jean de Tournes et à Guillaume Rouillé”; Cécile Alduy, “Scève et Pétrarque: ‘de mort à vie’”; Daniel Maira, “Les ‘erreurs’ rhétoriques de Pétrarque et de Pontus de Tyard ou la collection éditoriale des Juvenilia”; François Rigolot, “Echos pétrarquiens dans la poésie de Louise Labé: la nouvelle Laure lyonnaise et le paradigme du giovenile errore”; Giovanna Bellati, “La traduction du Canzoniere de Vasquin Philieul”; André Gendre, “Pierre de Ronsard”; Olivier Millet, “Du Bellay et Pétrarque, autour de l’Olive”; Jean Vignes, “Appropriation et restitution de Pétrarque dans la poésie de Jean-Antoine de Baïf”; Emmanuel Buron, “Jodelle et Pétrarque”; Concetta Cavallini, “La Boétie et Pétrarque”; Yves Giraud, “Un singulier pétrar-quisant”; Michèle Clément, “De Grévin à Pétrarque: ‘Non je ne m’en repen’”; François Rouget, “Philippe Desportes, médiateur du pétrarquisme français”; François Lecercle, “Un pétrarquisme épistolaire: les Lettres amoureuses d’Etienne du Tronchet”; Rosanna Gorris Camos, “Guy le Fèvre de la Boderie et Pétrarque”; Daniela Costa, “Les poètes de Henri III et Pétrarque”; Silvia D’Amico, “Les Essais de Jérôme d’Avost”; Gilles Banderier, “Le triomphe des langues: Du Monin et Pétrarque”; Alessandra Preda, “Tra Tasso e Montaigne: il petrarchismo di Claude Expilly”; Véronique Ferrer, “Le Printemps d’Agrippa d’Aubigné ou les épreuves du pétrarquisme”; Nerina Clerici Balmas, “Pétrarque dans l’œuvre de Marc Papillon”; Gilles Banderier, “Un pétrarquisme féminin et dévot: Françoise Pautrard”; Marzia Malinverni, “Bricard e Petrarca”; and Jean Balsamo, “Philippe de Maldeghem ou Pétrarque en Flandre.”Google Scholar
Kathryn Elizabeth, Banks, and, Ford, Philip, eds. Self and Other in Sixteenth-Century France: Proceedings of the Seventh Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium 7-9 July 2001. . Cambridge: Cambridge Printing, 2004. xiv + 233 pp. index. illus. n.p. ISBN: 0-9511645-8-9 Includes: Mary McKinley, “Parrots and Poets: Writing Alterities in Scève and Lemaire de Belges”; Cathleen M. Bauschatz, “‘Mais quelque fois on me prenoit pour luy’: Narrative Cross-Dressing in Les Angoysses douloureuses, Part II”; Julia Horn, “The ‘Pagan’ in Amadis de Gaule”; Frank Lestringant, “Une altérité venue du froid: démons et merveilles d’Olaus Magnus (1539-1555)”; Cathy Hampton, “Same Difference? The Heterosexual Quest for Oneness in French Neo-Platonic Love Discourses: Passion and its Pitfalls”; Terence Cave, “Comment représenter l’altérité: le myth de Philomèle chez Rabelais, Ronsard et Shakespeare”; Yvonne Roberts, “Jean-Antoine de Baïf: The Abandonment of the Humanist Ideal”; Paul A. Scott, “Edward II and Henri III: Sexual Identity at the End of the Sixteenth Century”; Wes Williams, “Some Monsters: Montaigne, Heliodorus, and Some Others”; George Hoffmann, “In the Name of Atheism”; André Tournon, “‘Soit que je sois autre moy mesme. .’”; and Emily Butterworth, “‘Reprend[re] les vices de chacun’: Correction and Defamation in Le Palais des curieux and Le Moyen de parvenir.”Google Scholar
Evelyne, Berriot-Salvadore, , Chareyre, Philippe, and, Martin-Ulrich, Claudie, eds. Jeanne d’Albret et sa Cour: Actes du Colloque International de Pau, 17-19 mai 2001. . Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2004. 542 pp. index. illus. tbls. €52. ISBN: 2-7453-1019-4. Includes: Nathalie Dauvois, “Jeanne d’Albret et les poètes de Marot à Pey de Garros”; Nadine Kuperty-Tsur, “Jeanne d’Albret ou la persuasion par la passion”; Bernard Roussel, “Jeanne d’Albret et ‘ses’ théologiens”; Mariangela Miotti, “André de Rivaudeau: Théâtre et poésie pour la cour de Jeanne d’Albret”; Didier Poton, “Des corsaires bretons au service de la cause Huguenote: les Trimault du Croisic (1569-1570)”; Anne-Marie Cocula, “Été 1568: Jeanne d’Albret et ses deux enfants sur le chemin de la Rochelle”; Jean-Yves Casanova, “Images de l’occitan au XVIe siècle: La pensée linguistique de Pey de Garros dans l’adresse Au Lecteur des Poesias Gasconas de 1567”; Claudie Martin-Ulrich, “Récit de vie, récit de mort: Le Brief discours sur la mort de la royne de Navarre, Jeanne d’Albret”; Philippe Chareyre, “Hasta la muerte: La fermesse de Jeanne d’Albret”; Amanda Eurich, “‘Le pays de Canaan’: L’évolution du pastorat béarnais sous Jeanne d’Albret”; Isabelle Pébay and Paul Mironneau, “Le goût du bel objet: À propos des richesses d’art de Jeanne d’Albret à Pau et à Nérac”; Véronique Duché, “Jeanne d’Albret, un personnage romanesque?”; Cécile Tison, “Les relations lignagères de Jeanne d’Albret d’après sa correspondance”; Daniel Salaün, “Adaptation musicale du psautier Huguenot à la langue béarnaise par Arnaud de Salette (1583)”; Serge Brunet, “Jeanne d’Albret, Pierre d’Albret, évêque de Comminges, et la ‘trahison’ de Blaise de Monluc: aux origines de la Ligue dans le Sud-Ouest de la France”; Dominique Bidot-Germa, “Les officiers de l’État béarnais sous le règne de Jeanne d’Albret (1555-1572): perspectives prosopographiques”; Hubert Bost, “Jeanne d’Albret, amazone de la Réforme: La synthèse historiographique du Dictionnaire de Bayle”; Claude Menges-Mironneau, “L’évolution d’une représentation féminine: Jeanne d’Albret au travers de quelques portraits (XVIe–XIXe s.)”; Véronique Castagnet, “Jeanne d’Albret, les évêques de Lescar et d’Oloron, le pape et le Saint-Office”; Pascal Rambeaud, “Jeanne d’Albret et son entourage à La Rochelle (septembre 1568 - août 1571)”; Christian Desplat, “Jeanne d’Albret, un modèle d’éducation maternelle?”; David Bryson, “Jeanne d’Albret: Questions anciennes; nouvelles réponses?”; and Eugénie Pascal,“Lettres de la Royne de Navarre. .. avec une Ample Declaration d’icelles: autoportrait d’une femme d’exception.”Google Scholar
Matthias, Bloch, and, Mojsisch, Burkhard, eds. Potentiale des menschlichen Geistes: Freiheit und Kreativität: Praktische Aspekte der Philosophie, Marsilio Ficinos (1433-1499). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 274 pp. index. €68. ISBN: 3-515-08096-1. Includes: Burkhard Mojsisch and Matthias Bloch, “Einleitung”; Jörg Hardy, “Die Unsterbliche, Erkenntnisfähige Seele bei Platon und Ficino”; Udo Reinhold Jeck, “Die Bedeutung von Leiblichkeit und Gehirn in Ficinos Auseinandersetzung mit Averroes und den Averroisten”; Hubert Benz, “Ethische Praxis und Selbstbezug des Geistes als Wege zur Unsterblichkeit der Seele (Platon, Plotin, Marsilio Ficino)”; Achim Wurm, “Kontexte des Eros bei Platon und Ficino”; Detlef Thiel, “Theuth-Merkur-Saturn: Marsilio Ficinos Rezeption der Platonischen Schriftkritik”; Orrin F. Summerell, “Aller Sachen Mass der Mensch? Protagoras in der ethischen Perspektive Marsilio Ficinos”; Matthias Bloch, “Zur Artifizialität des Guten Lebens: Ficinos Rezeption des Platonischen Philebos”; Alexander F. Lohner, “Ficinos Psychologie der individuellen Unsterblichkeit: Aktuelle Aspekte für die Fundamentalethik”; and Burkhard Mojsisch, “Pomponazzis Theorie der prakti-schen Vernunft: Eine Kritik an Ficinos spekulativem Intellektualismus.”Google Scholar
Brian, Boyd, ed. Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press/AUP, 2004. 292 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-87413-868-X. Includes: John Kerrigan, “‘A Green Bay-Tree’: Tribute to MacDonald P. Jackson”; Brian Boyd, “Words That Count: Introduction”; Andrew Gurr, “The Great Divide of 1594”; Brian Boyd, “Kind and Unkindness: Aaron in Titus Andronicus”; Brian Vickers, “The Troublesome Raigne, George Peele, and the Date of King John”; Ward Elliott and Robert J. Valenza, “Did Shakespeare Write A Lover’s Complaint? The Jackson Ascription Revisited”; Marina Tarlinskaja, “The Verse of A Lover’s Complaint: Not Shakespeare”; Michael Neill, “‘Servile Ministers’: Othello, King Lear, and the Sacralization of Service”; John Jowett, “The Pattern of Collaboration in Timon of Athens”; David Gunby, “‘Strong commanding Art’: The Structure of The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Devil’s Law-Case”; David Carnegie, “Mutinous Soldiers and Shouts [Within]: Stage Directions and Early Modern Dramaturgy”; Gary Taylor, “Thomas Middleton, The Spanish Gypsy, and Collaborative Authorship”; and Brian Boyd, “MacDonald P. Jackson: A Bibliography.”Google Scholar
Graham, Bradshaw, , Bishop, Tom, and, Turner, Mark, eds. The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Vol. 4, Shakespeare Studies Today. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. xviii + 366 pp. index. illus. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-4006-X. Includes: Mary Thomas Crane, “The Physics of King Lear: Cognition in a Void”; Eve Sweetser, “‘The suburbs of your good pleasure’: Cognition, Culture and the Bases of Metaphoric Structure”; Donald C. Freeman, “Othello and the ‘Ocular Proof’”; Mark Turner, “The Ghost of Anyone’s Father”; Graham Bradshaw, “Precious Nonsense and the CONDUIT Metaphor”; Per Aage Brandt, “Metaphors and Meaning in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73”; Bernice W. Kliman, “A Plan for www.hamletworks.org: An Offshoot of the New Variorum Hamlet Project”; Alexander Leggatt, “Urban Poetry in the Almereyda Hamlet”; John Bell, “Hamlet: A Rehearsal Diary”; Tom Bishop, “‘Companions notable and most known’: Shakspeare and the General Reader”; Susan Viguers, “King Lear as a Book: A Visual/Verbal Production”; Harry Berger, Jr., “Three’s a Company: The Spectre of Contaminated Intimacy in Othello”; Lars Engle, “Shakespearean Normativity in All’s Well That Ends Well”; Atsuhiko Hirota, “Forms of Empires: Rome and its Peripheries in Cymbeline”; Robin Headlam Wells, “Value Pluralism in The Merchant of Venice”; John Lee, “Twins and Doubles as an Aspect of Shakespeare’s Pluralism”; and Katherine Eisaman Maus, “Five Recent Books on Renaissance Subjectivity.”Google Scholar
Stephen J., Campbell, and, Milner, Stephen J., eds. Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 372 pp. index. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0-521-82688-8. Includes: Stephen J. Campbell and Stephen J. Milner, “Art, Identity, and Cultural Translation in Renaissance Italy”; Michelle O’Malley, “Subject Matters: Contracts, Designs, and the Exchange of Ideas between Painters and Clients in Renaissance Italy”; Megan Holmes, “Copying Practices and Marketing Strategies in a Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painter’s Workshop”; Shelley E. Zuraw, “Mina da Fiesole’s Forteguerri Tomb: A ‘Florentine’ Monument in Rome”; Luke Syson, “Bertoldo di Giovanni, Republican Court Artist”; Stephen J. Campbell, “‘Our eagles always held fast to your lilies’: The Este, the Medici, and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity”; Georgia Clarke, “Giovanni II Bentivoglio and the Uses of Chivalry: Towards the Creation of a ‘Republican Court’ in Fifteenth-Century Bologna”; Bruce L. Edelstein, “‘Acqua viva e corrente’: Private Display and Public Distribution of Fresh Water at the Neapolitan Villa of Poggioreale as a Hydraulic Model for Sixteenth-Century Medici Gardens”; Stephen J. Milner, “The Politics of Patronage: Verrocchio, Pollaiuolo, and the Forteguerri Monument”; Deborah L. Krohn, “Between Legend, History, and Politics: The Santa Fina Chapel in San Gimignano”; Christopher S. Celenza, “From Center to Periphery in the Florentine Intellectual Field: Orthodoxy Reconsidered”; Brian A. Curran, “The Sphinx in the City: Egyptian Memories and Urban Spaces in Renaissance Rome (and Viterbo)”; and Morten Steen Hansen, “Immigrants and Church Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Ancona.”Google Scholar
Patrick G., Cheney, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 312 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $65 (cl), $23.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-82034-0 (cl), 0-521-52734-1 (pbk). Includes: Patrick Cheney, “Introduction: Marlowe in the Twenty-First Century”; David Riggs, “Marlowe’s Life”; Laurie E. Maguire, “Marlovian Texts and Authorship”; Russ McDonald, “Marlowe and Style”; Paul Whitfield White, “Marlowe and the Politics of Religion”; James P. Bednarz, “Marlowe and the English Literary Scene”; Georgia E. Brown, “Marlowe’s Poems and Classicism”; Mark Thornton Burnett, “Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two”; Julia Reinhard Lupton, “The Jew of Malta”; Thomas Cartelli, “Edward II”; Thomas Healy, “Doctor Faustus”; Sara Munson Deats, “Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris”; Richard Wilson, “Tragedy, Patronage, and Power”; Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., “Geography and Identity in Marlowe”; Kate Chedgzoy, “Marlowe’s Men and Women: Gender and Sexuality”; Lois Potter, “Marlowe in Theatre and Film”; and Lisa Hopkins, “Marlowe’s Reception and Influence.”Google Scholar
Frederick A., de Armas, ed. Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2004. 310 pp. index. illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-8387-5571-2. Includes: Frederick A. de Armas, “(Mis)placing the Muse: Ekphrasis in Cervantes’ La Galatea”; E.C. Graf, “The Pomegranate of Don Quixote 1.9”; Christopher B. Weimer, “The Quixotic Art: Cervantes, Vasari, and Michelangelo”; María Cristina Quintero, “Mirroring Desire in Early Modern Spanish Poetry: Some Lessons from Painting”; Mary E. Barnard, “Inscribing Transgression, Siting Identity: Arguijo’s Phaëthon and Ganymede in Painting and Text”; Steven Wagschal, “Writing on the Fractured ‘I’: Góngora’s Iconographic Evocations of Vulcan, Venus, and Mars”; Emilie L. Bergmann, “Optics and Vocabularies of the Visual in Luis de Góngora and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”; Timothy Ambrose, “Lope de Vega and Titian: The Goddess as Emblem of Sacred and Profane Love”; Laura Bass, “To Possess Her in Paint: (Pro)creative Failure and Crisis in El pintor de su deshonra”; Lisa Voigt, “Visual and Oral Art(ifice) in María de Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos”; John T. Cull, “The Baroque at Play: Homiletic and Pedagogical Emblems in Francisco Garau and Other Spanish Golden Age Preachers”; Julio Vélez-Sainz, “Quevedo Resting on His Laurels: A (Topo)graphical Topos in El Parnasso español”; and Lía Schwartz, “Linguistic and Pictorial Conceits in the Baroque: Velázquez Between Quevedo and Gracián.”Google Scholar
Donald R., Dickson, and, Nelson, Holly Faith, eds. Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press/AUP, 2004. 393 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-87413-876-0. Includes: Holly Faith Nelson and Donald R. Dickson, “Introduction”; Jonathan F.S. Post, “Civil War Cleavage: More Force than Fashion in Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans”; Robert Wilcher, “The ‘true, practic piety’ of ‘holy writing’: Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Christopher Harvey, and The Temple”; John Leonard, “Milton’s Jarring Allusions”; Nigel Smith, “Milton and the Index”; Karen L. Edwards, “Raphael, Diodati”; N.H. Keeble, “Wilderness Exercises: Adversity, Temptation, and Trial in Paradise Regained”; Holly Faith Nelson, “Biblical Structures in Silex Scintillans: The Poetics and Politics of Intertextuality”; Jonathan Nauman, “Boethius and Henry Vaughan: The Consolatio Translations of Olor Iscanus”; Donald R. Dickson, “The Mount of Olives: Vaughan’s Book of Private Prayer”; Peter Thomas, “Henry Vaughan, Orpheus, and The Empowerment of Poetry”; Glyn Pursglove, “‘Winged and free’: Henry Vaughan’s Birds”; Diane Kelsey McColley, “Water, Wood, and Stone: The Living Earth in Poems of Vaughan and Milton”; Matthias Bauer, “Time and the Word: A Reading of Henry Vaughan’s ‘The Search’”; Alan Rudrum, “Henry Vaughan’s Poems of Mourning”; and June Sturrock, “Lark, Wild Thyme, Crowing Cock, and Waterfall: The Natural, the Moral, and the Political in Blake’s Milton and Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans.”Google Scholar
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Jo Ann, Cavallo. The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xii + 294 pp. index. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-8020-8915-1. Google Scholar
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