Les Manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'antiquité tardive à la fin du moyen âge (review)

164 Reviews facilitated multiple views. This application is, however, clearly limited since, as Gibbons freely admits, the spectator cannot circle the relief. But there is ample evidence to suggest that Giambologna fully explored the possibilities of relief sculpture, despite its planar characteristics, in order to contribute to the viewer's experience. Gibbons describes in detail the way in which specific formal elements, such as the physical projection offigures,the space between characters, the placement of large groups, and the use of diagonals and deep architectural vistas, both encourage and enhance the viewer's involvement in the unfolding narrative. She also points to the way in which certain compositional arrangements convey emotional and psychological drama. Gibbons's analysis is important for the w a y in which it highlights Giambologna's astonishingly broad range of interpretative and technical skills. She also offers valuable information on his understanding of post-Tridentine ideology and its application in the chapel. The main strength of this book is that it gives the reader a broad context within which to interpret the Grimaldi chapel. Gibbons's close analysis of the impact of post-Tridentine thought on matters cultural and political sheds n e w light on m a n y aspects of the commission. Similarly, her discussion of particular concerns of patronage and Genoese society is of great interest. This crucial emphasis on location highlights the fact that, during this period, separate states in the Italian peninsula had quite specific and often distinct preoccupations which affected the patronage and production of art. Sally Quin School of Architecture and Fine Arts University of Western Australia Hamesse, Jacqueline, ed., Les Manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de I'a tardive a la fin du moyen age. (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Age 4), LouvainLa -Neuve, Federation Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Medievales, 1996; pp. xiii, 723; R.R.P. BR 2450. The umbrella title embraces papers delivered by twenty-two scholars at a 1994 conference at Erice. A s the language(s) of the lexicons discussed are omitted from the title, the reader needs to know that they are principally Latin ones with a few vernacular interfaces. The proceedings of the colloquium were not intended to involve every form of early glossary. Anyone researching glossatorial forerunners of modern monolingual dictionaries, such as Larousse, will be disappointed. Relevant thoughts on this subject, in particular on the lexicons of Petrus Berchorius and imitators, appeared in the year of the conference, it so happens (see New Zealand Journal ofFrench Studies, 15, pp. 5-19). The contents of the volume reflect current interest in select glossators or Reviews 165 research into problems raised by their works. Thus, lexicographical activities are examined in the writings of Isidore of Seville, by C. Condoner (pp. 5777 ); Nonius Marcellus, by P. Gatti (pp. 79-91) and by A. L. Llorente (pp. 93100 ); Osbert of Gloucester, by F. Bertini (pp. 283-97); Angelo Senisio, by G Cremascoli (pp. 337-52); both Papias and Uguccione da Pisa, by A. Bartola (pp. 377-452); Giovanni Balbi, by G. Powitz, with penetrating insights into the manuscript tradition (pp. 299-336). The gloss in Antiquity and in later ages is the subject of papers or essays by L. Holtz (pp. 1-21), J. Kramer, on those of papyri (pp. 23-55); C. Jeudy, on glosses accompanying Juvenal's Satires (pp. 253-82); P. Radiciotti, on Greek and Latin paleographical evidence (pp. 121-6). The topic 'On the nature and transmission of Latin glossaries" is explored by A. C. Dionisotti (pp. 205-52), with reference to views held by Lindsay and Goetz. A research report on progress towards a corpus of Carolingian Biblical Glossaries is provided by P. Vaciago (pp. 127-44). D. Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda (pp. 145-204) embraces the extensive subject of glossaries and dictionaries in medieval libraries. O n the other hand, Catalonia's holdings of such lexicons are the subject of separate consideration by J. Alturo (pp. 101-20). Specificfieldsof reference are covered by other contributors. Many Corpus iuris civilis texts come under scrutiny in the focus of G. R. Dolezalek (pp. 35376 ). J . Hamesse investigates unedited philosophical lexicons in her discussion (pp. 453-80). Hebrew-Latin glosses, especially...