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Information: Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , Winter 2006 , pp. 1334 - 1369

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Acidini, Cristina , and, Gabriele, Morolli , eds. L’uomo del Rinascimento: Leon Battista Alberti e le arti a Firenze tra ragione e bellezza. Florence : Mandragora/ Maschietto Editore , 2006. 478 pp. index. illus. bibl. €50. ISBN: 88-7461-085-8. Includes: Leonardo Domenici, Edoardo Speranza, Francesco Paolo Fiore, Antonio Paolucci, and Giorgio Bonsanti, “Presentazioni”; Gabriele Morolli and Cristina Acidini, “Prefazione”; Cristina Acidini, “Alberti, il Della pittura i pittori: appunti fiorentini”; Gabriele Morolli, “Alberti e Firenze: un esilio perpetuo”; Gabriele Morolli, “Il cantiere e l’idea: la ‘res aedificatoria’ fra ‘ars’ e ‘ratio’”; Paola Massalin, “Gli Alberti: gente sode e ricche”; Cristina Acidini, “I ritratti di messer Battista”; Stefano Borsi, “Biografia e città”; Gabriele Morolli, “Firenze 1440: Roma non basta”; Roberto Lunardi, “Firenze capitale della cristianità”; Stefano Borsi, “Alberti e Santa Maria del Fiore”; Gabriele Morolli, “Il tempo dei templi: dall’Acropoli al Monte Moriah”; Lucia Bertolini, “Il Certame coronario”; Cristina Acidini, “La corona del Certame”; Gabriele Morolli, “L’architettura dell’‘altro’ Umanesimo”; Simonetta Bracciali, “La famiglia Rucellai e l’Archivio: Una prima fase di ricerca”; Brenda Preyer, “La facciata di Palazzo Rucellai”; Simonetta Bracciali, “Il cantiere di restauro di Palazzo Rucellai come ‘atto conoscitivo’”; Mauro Matteini, “La facciata in pietra forte del Palazzo Rucellai a Firenze: un restauro a correzione di un precedente intervento”; Cristina Acidini, “L’emblema della Fortuna”; Amedeo Belluzzi, “La Cappella Rucellai in San Pancrazio”; Vincenzo Vaccaro, “Il restauro architettonico”; Annamaria Giusti, “Il previsto restauro del sacello del Santo Sepolcro”; Cristina Acidini, “Ricordi di Terrasanta”; Vincenzo Vaccaro, “Leon Battista Alberti geometra... astrologo... musico”; Ferruccio Canali, “Leon Battista Alberti e la facciata di Santa Maria Novella”; Maria Bonelli, “Il restauro lapideo: Interventi conservativi del Novecento”; Roberto Lunardi, “Simbologia e religione”; Gabriele Morolli, “Giardini pensili e orti suburbani”; Alessandro Rinaldi, “Architettura di villa tra conservazione e sperimentazione. La villa di Giovanni Rucellai a Quaracchi e la villa di Piero del Tovaglia”; Stefano Borsi, “La cavalcata archeologica di Leon Battista e Lorenzo il Magnifico”; Gabriele Morolli, “Il ritorno della magnificenza antica”; Gabriele Morolli, “Absidi, tribune e moli modernamente antiche”; Francesco Quinterio, “L’Annunziata prima di Alberti”; Ferruccio Canali, “Il tondo del marchese Lodovico”; Gabriele Morolli, “La nuova chiesa umanistica a un’unica navata”; Gabriele Morolli, “I sacelli e l’ornato”; Gabriele Morolli, “Un’architettura di parole”; Stefano G. Casu, “Temi albertiani nell’arte del Rinascimento”; Emilia Daniele, “La fortuna editoriale del trattato albertiano”; Filippo Camerota, “Leon Battista Alberti e le scienze matematiche”; David Napolitano, “Delle cinque specie degli intercolumni”; Gabriele Morolli, “La vittoria postuma: una città niente affatto ‘ideale’”; Paolo Bertoncini Sabatini, “Colonne e marmi: il fascino moderno della bellezza all’antica”; Paolo Bertoncini Sabatini, “Dalla Gerusalemme celeste alla città terrena: le vie sopraelevate all’antica come ‘ornamentum’ urbano”; Gabriele Morolli, “‘Grammè,’ ‘graphè’: Dalla ‘descriptio’ alfanumerica alla veduta prospettica”; Giuseppina Carla Romby, “Dall’idea alla fabbrica della città: regolamenti edilizi, cantieri, materiali”; Cristina Acidini, “Alberti e noi”; Marco Cappellini and Simonetta Bracciali, “Da multimedialità a multimodalità per i Beni Culturali”; Giovanni De Stefano, Antonio Glessi, and Marco Rufino, “Alberti ‘reloaded’”; and Maurizio Seracini, “Sotto la ‘Città ideale’: Il disegno ‘nascosto’ rivelato dalle indagini diagnostiche.”Google Scholar

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Maniura, Robert , and , Rupert, Shepherd , eds. Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects. Histories of Vision. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Company , 2006. xviii + 322 pp. index. illus. bibl. $124.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3493-0. Includes: Robert Maniura and Rupert Shepherd, “Introduction”; Craig Clunas, “‘Not one hair different...’: Wen Zhengming on Imaging the Dead in Ming Funerary Portraiture”; Donal Cooper, “Projecting Presence: The Monumental Cross in the Italian Church Interior”; John E. Cort, “Installing Absence? The Consecration of a Jina Image”; Richard H. Davis, “Presence and Translucence: Appars’ Guide to Devotional Receptivity ”; Carolyn Dean, “Metonymy in Inca Art”; Gert Fischer, “Presence of Divinity: Poussin's Conception of Figures and the Depiction of Mythical Nature”; Norman Freeman, “Psychological Analysis of Deciding If Something Is Presented in a Picture”; James Hall, “Desire and Disgust: Touching Artworks from 1500 to 1800”; Andrew Harrison, “What is ‘Presence’?; Michael Leja, “Trompe l’oeil Painting and the Deceived Viewer”; John Nash, “The Representation of ‘Soul’ by Rembrandt”; Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, “Amphiaraos Present: Images and Healing Pilgrimage in Classical Greece”; Cesare Poppi, “Wonders Taken for Signs: Rethinking the ‘Fetish’”; Peter Stewart, “The Image of the Roman Emperor”; and Eugene Y. Wang, “Sound Observer and Ways of Representing Presences.”Google Scholar

Medina, João , ed. Clio: Revista do Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa. N.s. 13, no. 2. Lisbon : Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa , 2005. 142 pp. illus. map. €10. ISBN: ISSN: 0870-4104. Includes: João Medina, “à maneira de preâmbulo à nossa antologia de gravuras quixotescas e textos sobre o ‘D. Quixote’: Gustave Doré, (re)inventor do ‘Quixote’ ou De como conheci o cavaleiro manchego e o seu fiel escudeiro”; Gonçalves Crespo, “A Morte de D. Quixote”; António José da Silva, “Sancho Pança, governador da Ilha Baratária”; Ramiro de Maeztu, “‘Os Lusìadas’ e o ‘D. Quixote’: grandeza e declìnio da Nações Ibéricas”; Ivan Turguenev, “Hamlet e Dom Quixote”; and Jean Cassou, “Cervantes e nós.”Google Scholar

Menzer, Paul , ed. Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriars Stage. The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture 5. Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press , 2006. 244 pp. index. illus. $52.50. ISBN: 1-57591-077-2. Includes: Paul Menzer and Ralph Alan Cohen, “Introduction: Shakespeare Inside and Out”; Andrew Gurr, “London's Blackfriars Playhouse and the Chamberlain's Men”; Tiffany Stern, “Taking Part: Actors and Audience on the Stage at Blackfriars”; Roslyn Knutson, “What If There Wasn’t a ‘Blackfriars Repertory’?”; Leslie Thomson, “Who's In, Who's Out? The Knight of the Burning Pestle on the Blackfriars Stage”; Melissa D. Aaron, “‘Beware at what hands thou receiv'st thy commodity’: The Alchemist and the King's Men Fleece the Customers, 1610 ”; Alan Somerset, “The Blackfriars on Tour: Provincial Analogies”; Elza C. Tiner, “Professional Players in Stratford-on-Avon, 1587–1602”; Jeanne H. McCarthy, “The Queens ‘unfledged minions’: An Alternate Account of the Origins of Blackfriars and of the Boy Company Phenomenon”; Michael Shapiro, “The Westminister Scholars’ Sapientia Solomonis as Royal Gift Offering”; Virginia Mason Vaughn, “Blacking-Up at the Blackfriars Theatre”; Ian Borden, “The Blackfriars Gladiators: Masters of Fence, Playing a Prize, and the Elizabethan and Stuart Theater”; Alan Armstrong, “‘What is Become of Bushy? Where is Green?’: Metadramatic Reference to Doubling Actors in Richard II”; David Richman, “Smelling Their Way to Dover: A Blind Director's Take on Blind Gloucester”; Walter W. Cannon, “From Willow Cabin to Dark House: Twelfth Night and the Poetics of Indoor Spaces”; John R. Ford, “Changeable Taffeta: Re-Dressing the Bears in Twelfth Night”; William Proctor Williams, “Hamlet's Pockets: Problems with Stage Directions”; Albert Braunmuller, “A Joke and a Crux in Hamlet Q2”; Barry Gaines, “The Single Performance of Hamlet that Changed Theater History”; Stephen Booth, “A Discourse on the Witty Partition of A Midsummer Night's Dream”; and Paul Menzer, “Afterword: Discovery Spaces? Research at the Globe and Blackfriars.”Google Scholar

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Milward, Peter , ed. The Renaissance Bulletin. The Renaissance Bulletin 32. Tokyo : The Renaissance Institute , 2005. 82 pp. n.p. ISBN: ISSN 0338-0796. Includes: Soji Iwasaki, “The Segmented World and the Emergence of Modern Individualism in Hamlet”; Peter Milward, “Shakespeare's Metaphysical Heritage”; “Shakespeare and Ecology”; “Shakespeare and Genji”; “The History of William Shakeshafte”; John Waterfield, “The Shadowplay of a Papist — Two Recent Books on Shakespeare's Catholicism”; and Takanori Togo, “Was Shakespeare a Papist?”Google Scholar

Nauta, Lodi , ed. Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 24. Leuven : Peeters Publishers and Booksellers , 2006. xiv + 224 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €45. ISBN: 90-429-1757-1. Includes: Sigrid Müller, “Theology, Language and Reality in Fifteenth-Century Via Moderna”; C. H. Kneepkens, “Scholasticism versus Humanism: A Conflict of Interests? Late Fifteenth-Century Reflections on Grammar in Northwestern Europe”; Inigo Bocken, “The Art of Speaking: Nicholas of Cusa as a Philosopher of Language”; Irene E. Zwiep, “Hebrew or the Holy Tongue? Imitation and Authenticity in Medieval Hebrew Writing”; Robert Black, “Italian Education: Languages, Syllabuses, Methods”; Andrea A. Robiglio, “Between Language and Likemindedness: Some Aspects of the Concept of Conversatio Civilis from Aquinas to Guazzo”; James Hankins, “The Popularization of Humanism in the Fifteenth Century: The Writings of Leonardo Bruni in Latin and the Vernacular”; Eveline Chayes, “Language of Words and Images in the Rime degli Academici Occulti 1568: Reflections of the Pre-Conceptual?”; Lodi Nauta, “Linguistic Relativity and the Humanist Imitation of Classical Latin”; and Ann Moss, “Language Can Change Minds.”Google Scholar

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O’Malley, John W., S.J., and , Gauvin, Alexander Bailey , eds. The Jesuits and the Arts 1540–1773. Philadelphia : Saint Joseph's University Press , 2005. xvi + 478 pp. index. illus. bibl. $50. ISBN: 0-916101-52-5. Includes: Juan Plazaola Artola, S.J., “Prologue”; John W. O’Malley, S.J., “Saint Ignatius and the Cultural Mission of the Society of Jesus”; Giovanni Sale, S.J., “Architectural Simplicity and Jesuit Architecture”; “The Design of the Gesù in Rome: A Difficult Collaboration”; Richard Bösel, “Jesuit Architecture in Europe”; Gauvin Alexander Bailey, “Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting Under the Jesuits and Its Legacy Throughout Catholic Europe, 1565–1773”; Heinrich Pfeiffer, S.J., “The Iconography of the Society of Jesus”; Marcello Fagiolo, “The Scene of Glory: The Triumph of the Baroque in the Theatrical Works of the Jesuits”; Philippe Lécrivain, S.J., “Jesuit Culture and Missions in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: At the Crossroads of History and Theology”; Ramón Gutiérrez and Graciela Marìa ViÑuales, “The Artistic and Architectural Legacy of the Jesuits in Spanish America”; Gauvin Alexander Bailey, “Jesuit Art and Architecture in Asia”; “The Jesuits in North America and Their Legacy in Art and Architecture, 1611–1814”; and T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., “Je-suits and Music.”Google Scholar

O’Malley, John W., S.J., , Gauvin, Alexander Bailey , and, Steven J, Harris , eds. The Jesuits II: Culture, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773. With CD-ROM. Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2006. xxxvi + 906 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. $95. ISBN: 0-8020-3861-1. Includes: Olwen Hufton, “Every Tub on Its Own Bottom: Funding a Jesuit College in Early Modern Europe”; Peter Burke, “The Jesuits and the Art of Translation in Early Modern Europe”; Elizabeth Rhodes, “Join the Jesuits, See the World: Early Modern Women in Spain and the Society of Jesus”; Sabina Pavone, “Between History and Myth: The Monita secreta Societatis Jesu”; Judi Loach, “Revolutionary Pedagogues? How Jesuits Used Education to Change Society”; Peter Davidson, “The Jesuit Garden”; Jeffrey Muller, “Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders”; Anna C. Knaap, “Meditation, Ministry, and Visual Rhetoric in Peter Paul Rubens's Program for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp”; Nuno Vassallo e Silva, “Art in the Service of God: The Impact of the Society of Jesus on the Decorative Arts in Portugal”; Gauvin Alexander Bailey, “Cultural Convergence at the Ends of the Earth: The Unique Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Missions to the Chiloé Archipelago (1608–1767)”; Humberto Rodrìguez-Camilloni “The Rural Churches of the Jesuit Haciendas on the Southern Peruvian Coast”; Hiromitsu Kobayashi, “Suzhou Prints and Western Perspective: The Painting Techniques of Jesuit Artists at the Qing Court, and Dissemination of the Contemporary Court Style of Painting to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Chinese Society through Woodblock Prints”; Volker R. Remmert, “Picturing Jesuit Anti-Copernican Consensus: Astronomy and Biblical Exegesis in the Engraved Title-Page of Clavius's Opera mathematica (1612)”; William A. Wallace, O.P., “Jesuit Influences on Galileo's Science”; Daniel Stolzenberg, “Utility, Edification, and Superstition: Jesuit Censorship and Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus”; Antonella Romano, “Teaching Mathematics in Jesuit Schools: Programs, Course Content, and Classroom Practices”; Henrique Leitão, “Entering Dangerous Ground: Jesuits Teaching Astrology and Chiromancy in Lisbon”; Vì ctor Navarro Brot óns, “Science and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Contribution of the Jesuits before and after the Expulsion”; Ugo Baldini, “The Reception of a Theory: A Provisional Syllabus of Boscovich Literature, 1746–1800”; David Crook, “‘A Certain Indulgence’: Music at the Jesuit College in Paris, 1575–1590”; Franz Körndle, “Between Stage and Divine Service: Jesuits and Theatrical Music”; Vctor Rondón, “Sung Catechism and College Opera: Two Musical Genres in the Jesuit Evangelization of Colonial Chile”; Bruna Filippi, “The Orator's Performance: Gesture, Word, and Image in Theatre at the Collegio Romano”; Giovanna Zanlonghi, “The Jesuit Stage and Theatre in Milan during the Eighteenth Century”; Michael Zampelli, S.J., “‘Lascivi Spettacoli’: Jesuits and Theatre (from the Underside)”; Sabine MacCormack, “Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru”; Aliocha Maldavsky, “The Problematic Acquisition of Indigenous Languages: Practices and Contentions in Missionary Specialization in the Jesuit Province of Peru (1568–1640)”; Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile, “The Uses of Shamanism: Evangelizing Strategies and Missionary Models in Seventeenth-Century Brazil”; Haruko Nawata Ward, “Jesuits, Too: Jesuits, Women Catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-Century Japan”; Catherine Pagani, “Clockwork and the Jesuit Mission in China”; Marc Fumaroli, “Between the Rigorist Hammer and the Deist Anvil: The Fate of the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century France”; Richard Clay, “The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Treatment of Catholic Representational Objects during the French Revolution”; Dauril Alden, “The Gang of Four and the Campaign against the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century Brazil”; Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, “Twilight in the Imperial City: The Jesuit Mission in China, 1748–60”; Larry Wolff, “Boscovich in the Balkans: A Jesuit Perspective on Orthodox Christianity in the Age of Enlightenment”; Alicia Fraschina, “A Jesuit Beata at the Time of the Suppression in the Viceroyalty of Ro de la Plata: Marìa Antonia de ì Paz y Figueroa, 1730–1799”; Daniel L. Schlafly, Jr., “The Post-Suppression Society of Jesus in the United States and Russia: Two Unlikely Settings”; and T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., “Jesuit Opera in Seventeenth-Century Vienna: Patientis Christi memoria by Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654–1712).”Google Scholar

Orlin, Lena Cowen , ed. Center or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll. The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press , 2006. 318 pp. index. illus. $55. ISBN: 1-57591-098-5. Includes: Lena Cowen Orlin, “Introduction”; Peter Stallybrass, “Marginal England: The View from Aleppo”; Philippa Berry, “Incising Venice: The Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice”; Patricia Parker, “Barbers, Infidels, and Renegades: Anthony and Cleopatra”; Phyllis Rackin, “Our Canon, Ourselves”; Harry Berger, Jr., “Artificial Couples: The Apprehensive Household in Dutch Pendants and Othello”; Lena Cowen Orlin, “Spaces of Treason in Tudor England”; Jean E. Howard, “Stage Masculinities, National History, and the Making of London Theatrical Culture”; Raphael Falco, “Charisma and Institution-Building in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy ”; Bruce R. Smith, “Mona Lisa Takes a Mountain Hike, Hamlet Goes for an Ocean Dip”; Catherine Belsey, “Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Culture: Lacan with Augustine and Montaigne”; Susanne Woods, “Abdiel Centers Freedom”; and Barbara Maria Stafford, “Artificial Intensity: The Optical Technologies of Personal Reality Enhancement.”Google Scholar

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