Books Received

Books Received

Editions and Translations:

Bideaux, Michel, ed., and Herberay des Essarts, trans. Amadis de Gaule. Book 1. Textes de la Renaissance 116. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 706 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. €63. ISBN: 2–7453–1422–X.

Cardano, Girolamo. Liber de ludo aleae. Filosofia e scienza nell'età moderna. Ed. Massimo Tamborini. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006. 240 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €21. ISBN: 88–464–8049–X.

Clegg, Cyndia Susan, and Randall McLeod, eds. "The peaceable and prosperous regiment of blessed Queene Elisabeth": A Facsimile from Holinshed's Chronicles (1587). San Marino: Huntington Library Press, 2005. viii + 570 pp. illus. tbls. $325. ISBN: 0–87328–161–6.

Du Bellay, Joachim. "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language". A Bilingual Edition. Ed. and trans. Richard Helgerson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xvi + 442 pp. index. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0–8122–3941–5.

Du Guillet, Pernette. Rymes (1545). Textes Litteraires Français 583. Ed. Elise Rajchenbach. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 296 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. €41.64. ISBN: 2–600–01063–7.

Fonte, Moderata. Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Valeria Finucci. Trans. Julia M. Kisacky. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxx + 494 pp. index. append. bibl. $75 (cl), $29 (pbk). ISBN: 0–226–25677–4 (cl), 0–226–25678–2 (pbk).

Garnier, Jean. Institution de la langue française. Institutio Gallicae linguae (1558). Texte latin original. Textes de la Renaissance 98. Trans. Alain Cullière. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. xl + 105 pp. + 158 pp. index. tbls. €56. 2–745–31321–5.

Higman, Francis, and Olivier Millet, eds. Trois Libelles Anonymes Edites, avec introduction et notes. Textes Littéraires Français. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 126 pp. gloss. bibl. CHF30. ISBN: 2–600–01109–9.

Lucinge, René de. Lettres de 1588: Un monde renversé. Textes Littéraires Français. Ed. James J. Supple. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 448 pp. index. append. €64.06. ISBN: 2–600–01039–4.

Panofsky, Erwin. Korrespondenz 1950 bis 1956. Vol. 3 of Korrespondenz 1910 bis 1968. Ed. Dieter Wuttke. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. xxxvi + 1382 pp. index. append. illus. chron. bibl. €180. ISBN: 3–447–05373–9.

Paulmier, Abbé Jean. Memoires touchant l'établissement d'une mission chrestienne dans le troisième monde: Autrement appelé, La Terr Australe, Meridionale, Antartique, & Inconnuë. Les Géographies du Monde 7. Ed. Margaret Sankey. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 400 pp. + 22 b/w pls. index. append. illus. map. bibl. CHF95. ISBN: 2–7453–1382–7.

Percy, William. William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition. Ed. Matthew Dimmock. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. vi + 260 pp. index. append. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0–7546–5406–0.

Sarrocchi, Margherita. Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. and trans. Rinaldina Russell. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxviii + 462 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $75 (cl), $29 (pbk). ISBN: 0–226–73507–9 (cl), 0–226–73508–7 (pbk).

Shakespeare, William. Measure for Measure. Updated Edition. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Ed. Brian Gibbons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 222 pp. illus. tbls. bibl. $70 (cl), $14.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0–521–85448–2 (cl), 0–521–67078–0 (pbk).

Shapiro, Norman R., ed. and trans. Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi + 384 pp. illus. $17. ISBN: 0–226–75052–3.

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Book 2. Ed. Erik Gray. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2006. xxviii + 244 pp. index. gloss. bibl. $9.95. ISBN: 0–87220–847–8.

Thevet, André. Histoire d'Andre Thevet Angoumoisin, Cosmographe du Roy, de deuz voyages pay luy faits aux Indes Australes, et Occidentales. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 416. Ed. Jean-Claude Laborie and Frank Lestringant. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 496 pp. + 16 b/w pls. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. CHF150. ISBN: 2–600–01042–4.

Trapezuntius, Georgius. Rhetoricum libri quinque. Europaea Memoria: Studien und Texte zur Geschichte der europäischen Ideen. Reihe II, Band 3. Ed. Luc Deitz. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2006. xxxii + 662 pp. index. €88. ISBN: 3–487–11573–5.

Williams, Gerhild Scholz, ed. and trans. On the Inconstancy of Witches: Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612). Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 307. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. liv + 586 pp. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $62. ISBN: 0–86698–352–X.

Zarlino, Gioseffo. Motets from 1549. Part 1: Motets Based on the Song of Songs. Ed. Cristle Collins Judd. Middleton: A-R Editions, 2006. xxvi + 106 pp. $83. ISBN: 0–89579–598–1.

Bibliography and Reference:

Brooks, Julian. Guercino: Mind to Paper. Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2006. 104 pp. index. illus. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 0–89236–862–4.

Coram-Mekkey, Sandra, ed. Registres du conseil de Genève a l'époque de Calvin. Vol. 3, 1 January–31 December 1538. 2 vols. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 409. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. xlvi + 546 pp. index. append. bibl. CHF170. ISBN: 2–600–00926–4.

Emison, Patricia A., Wendy Smith Rappa, and Sean Roberts. The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence. Durham, NH: The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, 2006. vi + 94 pp. illus. bibl. $25. ISBN: 0–9648953–5–8.

Hoven, René, and Laurent Grailet, eds. Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance/Dictionary of Renaissance Latin from Prose Sources. 2nd ed. Trans. Coen Maas. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. lx + 684 pp. append. bibl. $230. ISBN: 90–04–13984–2.

Nativel, Colette, Catherine Magnien, and Pierre Maréchaux, eds. Centuriae Latinae II: Cent une figures humanistes de la Renaissance aux Lumières à la mémoire de Marie-Madeleine de la Garanderie. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 414. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 864 pp. index. tbls. bibl. €186.60. ISBN: 2–600–01084–X.

Pedrocco, Filippo. Tizian. Trans. Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt. Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2000. 336 pp. index. illus. bibl. €102. ISBN: 3–7774–8660–4.

Roettgen, Steffi. Wandmalerei der Frührenaissance in Italien. Vol. 1, Anfänge und Entfaltung 1400–1470. Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 1996. 464 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. €132. ISBN: 3–7774–7050–3.

Sitt, Martina, ed. Pieter Lastman: In Rembrandts Schatten? Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2006. 152 pp. illus. chron. bibl. €29.90. ISBN: 3–7774–2985–6.

Spronk, Ron. Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0–300–12155–5.

Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. Rembrandt auf Papier: Werk und Wirkung/Rembrandt and his Followers: Drawings from Munich. Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2002. 364 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. €55. ISBN: 3–7774–9150–0.

Woollett, Anne T, Ariane van Suchtelen, and Tiarna Doherty. Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006. xiv + 274 pp. index. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0–89236–848–9.

Zuffi, Stefano. European Art of the Sixteenth Century. Trans. Antony Shugaar. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. 384 pp. index. append. illus. chron. $24.95. ISBN: 0–89236–846–2.

Anthologies and Texts:

Brug, Anja. Fra Filippo Lippi: Maria das Kind verehrend — Anbetung in Walde. Der Berliner Kunstbrief. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001. 32 pp. illus. bibl. €4.95. ISBN: 3–7861–2384–5.

Donnelly, John Patrick, ed. and trans. Jesuit Writings of the Early Modern Period 1540–1640. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2006. xx + 264 pp. index. illus. map. $37.95 (cl), $12.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0–87220–840–0 (cl), 0–87220–839–7 (pbk).

Ficino, Marsilio. Gardens of Philosophy: Ficino on Plato. Trans. Arthur Farndell. London: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., 2006. xiv + 192 pp. index. append. $34.95. ISBN: 0–85683–240–5.

Kearney, Hugh. The British Isles: A History of Four Nations. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii + 362 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $80 (cl), $29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0–521–84600–5 (cl), 0–521–60850–3 (pbk).

Mai, Ekkehard. Rembrandt: Selbstbildnis als Zeuxis. Der Kunstbrief. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2002. 32 pp. illus. bibl. €4.95. ISBN: 3–7861–2438–8.

Schmalisch, Jana. Il Correggio: Leda mit dem Schwan. Der Berliner Kunstbrief. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001. 32 pp. illus. bibl. €4.95. ISBN: 3–7861–2385–3.

Scholz, Hartmut. Albrecht Dürer und das Mosesfenster in St. Jakob in Straubing. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 59. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005. 24 pp. illus. $18.95. ISBN: 3–87357–214–4.

Sitt, Martina. Pieter Lastman: Verstoϐung der Hagar. Der Berliner Kunstbrief. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2002. 32 pp. illus. bibl. €4.95. ISBN: 3–7861–2445–0.

Zenker, Nina. Jan van Eyck: Die Madonna in der Kirche. Der Berliner Kunstbrief. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2001. 32 pp. illus. bibl. €4.95. ISBN: 3–7861–2382–9.

Collections and Studies:

Adams, David, and Adrian Armstrong, eds. Print and Power in France and England, 1500–1800. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 158 pp. index. illus. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0–7546–5591–1.

Includes: Adrian Armstrong, "Cosmetic Surgery on Gaul: The Printed Reception of Burgundian Writing in France before 1550"; Kenneth Austin, "Immanuel Tremellius' Latin Bible (1575–79) as a Pillar of the Calvinist Faith"; Sarah Knight, "'It was not mine intent to prostitute my Muse in English': Academic Publication in Early Modern England"; Lee Morrissey, "'Charity', Social Control and the History of English Literary Criticism"; Alison Saunders, "Spreading the Word: Illustrated Books as Political Propaganda in Seventeenth-Century France"; Ann C. Dean, "Insinuation and Instruction: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century 'Letters to the Printer'"; Simon Burrows, "Police and Political Pamphleteering in Pre-Revolutionary France: The Testimony of J.-P. Lenoir, Lieutenant-Général of Police of Paris"; and David Adams, "Fancy Costume and Political Authority in the French Revolution."

Belin, Christian, ed. La méditation au XVII^e siècle: Rhétorique, art, spiritualité;. Colloques, congrès et conférences sur le Classicisme: Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 276 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €50. ISBN: 2–7453–1352–5.

Includes: Christian Belin, "Avant-propos: Une voix qui illumine"; "La tradition méditative: écriture, procédures, mystère"; Véronique Ferrer, "Les Méditations sur les Pseaumes d'Agrippa d'Aubigné: défense et illustration des Écritures"; Bruno Petey-Girard, "Vie parlementaire et méditation: Pibrac, Du Vair et quelques autres"; Ralph Dekoninck, "L'image au coeur des trois puissances de l'âme dans la spiritualité jésuite du XVII^e siècle"; Richard Parish, "Polémique et poétique dans la méditation catholique en prose"; Huguette Courtès, "Méditations métaphysiques et méditations chrétiennes"; Véronique Adam, "La méditation poétique: un méditant-narcisse"; Georges Forestier, "Présence et lieux de la méditation dans la tragédie des XVI^e et XVII^e siècles"; Nathalie Grande, "Le roman: un genre spirituel?"; Anne Le Pas de Sécheval, "Peinture et méditation, la méditation dans le tableau, le tableau-méditation: à la recherche d'un concept d'analyse"; Anne Piéjus, "La musique française du XVII^e siècle face à la question de la méditation"; and Maya Suemi Lemos, "La musique et la méditation: l'exemple des vanités."

Boulton, D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre, and Jan R. Veenstra, eds. The Ideology of Burgundy: The Promotion of National Consciousness, 1364–1565. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 145. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. 300 pp. index. illus. tbls. $129. ISBN: 90–04–15359–4.

Includes: D'A. J. D. Boulton and Jan R. Veenstra, "Introduction"; Jan Dumolyn, "Justice, Equity and the Common Good: The State Ideology of the Councillors of the Burgundian Dukes"; D'A. J. D. Boulton, "The Order of the Golden Fleece and the Creation of Burgundian National Identity"; Bernhard Sterchi, "The Importance of Reputation in the Theory and Practice of Burgundian Chivalry: Jean de Lannoy, the Croÿs, and the Order of the Golden Fleece"; Malte Prietzel, "Rhetoric, Politics and Propaganda: Guillaume Fillastre's Speeches"; David J. Wrisley, "Burgundian Ideologies and Jehan Wauquelin's Prose Translations"; Graeme Small, "Of Burgundian Dukes, Counts, Saints and Kings (14 C. E.–c. 1520)"; Jan R. Veenstra, "'Le prince qui se veult faire de nouvel roy': The Literature and Ideology of Burgundian Self-Determination"; and Robert Stein, "Seventeen: The Multiplicity of a Unity in the Low Countries."

Bradby, David, and Andrew Calder, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 242 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $75 (cl), $29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0–521–83759–6 (cl), 0–521–54665–6 (pbk).

Includes: Marie-Claude Canova-Green, "The Career Strategy of an Actor Turned Playwright: 'de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace'"; Jan Clarke, "The Material Conditions of Molière's Stage"; Stephen Knapper, "The Master and the Mirror: Scaramouche and Molière"; Larry F. Norman, "Molière as Satirist"; Richard Parish, "How (and why) Not to Take Molière Too Seriously"; Robert McBride, "L'Avare or Harpagon's Masterclass in Comedy"; Andrew Calder, "Laughter and Irony in Le Misanthrope"; Charles Mazouer, "Comédies-ballets"; John S. Powell, "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Molière and Music"; Julia Priest, "Medicine and Entertainment in Le Malade imaginaire"; Ralph Albanese, Jr., "Molière and the Teaching of Frenchness: Les Femmes savantes as a Case Study"; Roxanne Lalande, "L'École des femmes: Matrimony and the Laws of Chance"; Noël Peacock, "Molière Nationalised: Tartuffe on the British Stage from the Restoration to the Present Day"; Jim Carmody, "Landmark Twentieth-Century Productions of Molière: a Transatlantic Perspective on Molière: mise en scène and Its Historiography"; David Whitton, "Dom Juan the Directors' Play"; and David Bradby, "'Reculer pour mieux sauter': Modern Experimental Theatre's Debt to Molière."

Burland, Margaret, David P. LaGuardia, and Andrea Tarnowski, eds. Meaning and Its Objects: Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France. Yale French Studies 110. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 192 pp. illus. $22. ISBN: 0–300–11241–6.

Includes: Margaret Burland, David LaGuardia, and Andrea Tarnowski, "Editors' Preface: Meaning and Its Objects"; Andrew Cowell, "Swords, Clubs, and Relics: Performance, Identity, and the Sacred"; Deborah McGrady, "'Tout son païs m'abandonna': Reinventing Patronage in Machaut's Fonteinne Amoureuse"; Margaret Burland, "Narrative Objects and Living Stories in Galeran de Bretagne"; Peggy McCracken, "Miracles, Mimesis, and the Efficacy of Images"; Alexa Sand, "Vision and the Portrait of Jean le Bon"; Cynthia J. Brown, "Books in Performance: The Parisian Entry (1504) and Funeral (1514) of Anne of Brittany"; Ann Rosalind Jones, "Habits, Holdings, Heterologies: Populations in Print in a 1562 Costume Book"; George Hoffmann, "Montaigne's Nudes: The Lost Tower Paintings Rediscovered"; Jeff Persels, "Taking the Piss out of Pantagruel: Urine and Micturition in Rabelais"; David LaGuardia, "Interrogation and the Performance of Truth in the Registre Criminel du Châtelet de Paris"; Andrea Tarnowski, "Material Examples: Philippe de Mézières's Order of the Passion"; and Michael Randall, "Sword and Subject in Du Haillan's Histoire de France (1576)."

Chabrolle-Cerretini, Anne-Marie, and Véronique Zaercher, eds. Dialogue et intertextualité;. Europe XVI–XVII, 6. Nancy: Groupe "XVI^e et XVII^e siècles en Europe", Université de Nancy, 2005. ii + 212 pp. illus. €17. ISBN: 2–9515883–5–6.

Includes: Claire Cazanave, "Trois façons de faire son miel: Pellison et le discours sur les oeuvres de M. Sarasin"; Anne-Marie Chabrolle-Cerretini, "Juan de Valdés: un modèle d'intégration? Aperçu d'un enjeu de l'intertextualité dans le Diálogo de la lengua"; Véronique Zaercher, "L'usage des modèles dans le dialogue français: procédé et inventivité"; Pierre Demarolle, "Dialogues et débats dans le Receuil de poésies françaises d'Anatole de Montaiglon"; Jacqueline Ferreras, "Le dialogue humaniste espagnol ou comment écrire la modernité (entre mimesis et rhétorique)"; Gerda Haϐler, "Dialogues entre Français, Espagnols et Allemands au XVII^e siècle: les dialogues dans les manuels de langues"; Marie-Hélène Maux-Piovano, "Le rôle de l'interlocuteur dans le Miroir de la Grammaire en dialogues d'Ambrosio de Salazar (1614)"; Mariana Gois Neves, "La structure de O Escritório Falante, dialogue allégorique"; Ruxandra Vulcan, "Les Dialogues du désordre de Pierre Viret (de 1545) et la tradition des questions naturelles"; Véronique Duché-Gavet, "Le dialogue du Cueur Contemplatif et de l'Ame Dévote"; and Christian Bouzy, "Dialogue et image dans des recueils d'emblèmes, de devises et de médailles au XVI^e siècle (Alciat, Giovio et Agustin)."

Cheney, Patrick, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, eds. Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxiv + 342 pp. index. chron. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 0–19–515387–3.

Includes: Susanne Woods, "Inventing English Verse"; Arthur F. Marotti, "Print, Manuscripts, and Miscellanies"; Peter C. Herman, "Tudor and Stuart Defenses of Poetry"; Catherine Bates, "Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court"; John N. King, "Spenser's May Eclogue and Mid-Tudor Religious Poetry"; Steven May, "Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne"; William J. Kennedy, "Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism"; Bart van Es, "Spenserian Pastoral"; John Watkins, "Spenser's Poetry and the Apocalypse"; Elizabeth D. Harvey, "Spenser, Virginity, and Sexuality"; William A. Oram, "Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry"; Alan Sinfield, "Marlowe's Erotic Verse"; Jonathan Goldberg, "Literary Criticism, Literary History, and the Place of Homoeroticism"; Lynn Enterline, "'The Phoenix and the Turtle,' Renaissance Elegies, and the Language of Grief"; Patrick Cheney, "Shakepeare's Literary Career and Narrative Poetry"; Sasha Roberts, "Shakespeare's Sonnets and English Sonnet Sequences"; Danielle Clarke, "Mary Sidney Herbert and Women's Religious Verse"; Naomi J. Miller, "Lady Mary Wroth and Women's Love Poetry"; Andrew Hadfield, "Donne's Songs and Sonets and Artistic Identity"; Andrew McRae, "Satire and the Politics of Town"; Achsah Guibbory, "Donne's Religious Poetry and the Trauma of Grace"; Helen Wilcox, "Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion"; Julie Sanders, "Jonson, King and Court"; Michael Schoenfeldt, "George Herbert, God, and King"; Lowell Gallagher, "Crashaw and Religious Bias in the Literary Canon"; Laura Lunger Knoppers, "Cavalier Poetry and Civil War"; Thomas Healy, "Marvell and Pastoral"; and Barbara K. Lewalski, "Milton, the Nativity Ode, the Companion Poems, and Lycidas."

Clucas, Stephen, ed. John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought. International Archives of the History of Ideas 193. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. xviii + 366 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $189. ISBN: 1–4020–4245–0.

Includes: Stephen Clucas, "Introduction: Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee"; Nicholas H. Clulee, "John Dee's Natural Philosophy Revisited"; Robert Goulding, "Wings (or Stairs) to the Heavens: The Parallactic Treatises of John Dee and Thomas Digges"; Stephen Johnston, "Like Father, Like Son? John Dee, Thomas Digges and the Identity of the Mathematician"; Richard Dunn, "John Dee and Astrology in Elizabethan England"; Robert Baldwin, "John Dee's Interest in the Application of Nautical Science, Mathematics and Law to English Naval Affairs"; William H. Sherman, "John Dee's Columbian Encounter"; Karen De Léon-Jones, "John Dee and the Kabbalah"; Federico Cavallaro, "The Alchemical Significance of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica"; Jim Reeds, "John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga"; György E. Szönyi, "Paracelsus, Scrying and the Lingua Adamica: Contexts For John Dee's Angel Magic"; Stephen Clucas, "John Dee's Angelic Conversations and the Ars Notoria: Renaissance Magic and Mediaeval Theurgy"; Deborah E. Harkness, "The Nexus of Angelology, Eschatology and Natural Philosophy in John Dee's Angel Conversations and Library"; Susan Bassnett, "Absent Presences: Edward Kelley's Family in the Writings of John Dee"; Jan Bäcklund, "In the Footsteps of Edward Kelley: Some Manuscript References at the Royal Library in Copenhagen Concerning an Alchemical Circle around John Dee and Edward Kelley"; Julian Roberts, "Additions and Corrections to 'John Dee's Library Catalogue'"; and Stephen Clucas, "Recent Works on John Dee (1988–2005): A Select Bibliography."

Cranz, F. Edward. Reorientations of Western Thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Variorum Collected Studies Series 840. Ed. Nancy S. Struever. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xxiv + 374 pp. index. $119.95. ISBN: 0–86078–983–7.

Includes: F. Edward Cranz, "De Civitate Dei, XV, 2 and Augustine's Idea of the Christian Society"; "Kingdom and Polity in Eusebius of Caesarea"; "The Development of Augustine's Ideas on Society Before the Donatist Controversy"; "Augustine and Anselm of Canterbury"; "Boethius and Abelard"; "St. Paul and Ancient Modes of Thought"; "Some Petrarchan Paradoxes"; "Some Historical Structures of Reading and Allegory"; "The Eyes of the Mind: Antiquity and the Renaissance"; "Two Debates about the Intellect: (1) Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Greeks; (2) Nifo and the Renaissance Philosophers"; "The Renaissance Reading of the De anima"; "Quintilian as Ancient Thinker"; and "The studia humanitatis and litterae in Cicero and Leonardo Bruni."

Dauvois, Nathalie, ed. L'humanisme à Toulouse (1480–1596): Actes du colloque international de Toulouse, mai 2004, réunis par Nathalie Dauvois. Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne 54. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 640 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €76. ISBN: 2–7453–1396–7.

Includes: Nathalie Dauvois, "Introduction"; Patrick Arabeyre, "L'Ecole de Toulouse a-t-elle existé? Idéologie universitaire et parlementaire dans les années 1480–1530"; Jacques Krynen, "La signification d'une métaphore: le Sénat de Toulouse"; Henri Gilles, "La nomination aux chaires à la Faculté de Droit"; Géraldine Cazals, "La Perrière et l'humanisme civique"; Nathalie Dauvois, "'Jura sanctissima fabulis et carminibus miscere' La concorde de la poésie et du droit dans quelques traités d'Etienne Forcadel: la Necyomantia (1544), la Sphaera legalis (1549), le Cupido jurisperitus (1553)"; Stephen Rawles, "Les deux éditions de La Morosophie de Guillaume de la Perrière"; Matthieu Desachy, "L'entourage de l'évêque de Rodez François d'Estaing (1504–1529): la cour d'honneur de l'humanisme toulousain"; Jocelyne Deschaux, "Lecteurs humanistes à Toulouse"; Richard Cooper, "Les Débuts de François Habert, 'escollier, estudiant à Tholose'"; Jan Pendergrass, "Jean de Pins et l'humanisme en région toulousaine"; Nicole Lemaître, "Georges d'Armagnac et les humanistes des petites villes du Midi"; Jean-Claude Margolin, "Le cercle de Jean de Boyssoné d'après sa correspondance et ses poèmes"; Michel Magnien, "Les milieux humanistes toulousains à travers la correspondance de P. Bunel"; Stéphan Geonget, "L'humanisme littéraire de Jean de Coras"; Pierre C. Lile, "Auger Ferrier et le milieu médical toulousain"; Isabelle Luciani, "Jeux Floraux et 'humanisme civique' au XVI^e siècle: entre enjeux de pouvoir et expérience du politique"; Philippe Gardy, "Humanisme, Jeux floraux et veine 'popularisante': l'itinéraire toulousain de Pierre Du Cèdre, de la fin des années 1530 à 1555"; Jean-François Courouau, "L'humanisme toulousain et les langues des femmes. Pour une relecture des Nonpareilhas receptas (1555)"; Céline Marcy, "Gratien du Pont, un grand rhétoriqueur humaniste"; Jelle Koopmans, "Le théâtre à Toulouse au début du 16^e siècle"; Bruno Tollon, "L'humanisme dans l'architecture: rencontres entre artistes et savants conseillers (J. Albert, P. Trassabot, J. de Boyssoné, et D. Bertin)"; Frédérique Lemerle-Pauwels, "Architecture antique et humanisme: l'Histoire toulousaine d'A. Noguier (1556) et l'Epitome ou extrait abrégé des dix livres d'Architecture de Vitruve de J. Gardet et D. Bertin (1559)"; Philippe Canguilhem and Fabien Larroque, "La réception de l'humanisme musical italien à Toulouse au 16^e siècle"; Frank Dobbins, "Ronsard et ses musiciens toulousains"; Serge Brunet, "La réception des 'idées nouvelles' dans le Sud-Ouest (vers 1520–vers 1560)"; Loris Petris, "Ethique et politique dans Les Quatrains de Pibrac"; Marie-Alexis Colin, "Les Quatrains de Guy du Faur de Pibrac mis en musique"; Sylvie G. Davidson, "Guy du Faur de Pibrac et Les Plaisirs de la vie rustique"; Laura Willett, "Métamorphoses des cabinets humanistes: Pibrac et Montaigne"; and Kate Van Orden, "Un sacre à Toulouse? Les cérémonies de la paix de 1596."

Davidson, Clifford. Selected Studies in Drama and Renaissance Literature. AMS Studies in the Renaissance 40. Brooklyn: AMS Press, Inc., 2006. xiv + 276 pp. index. illus. $72.50. ISBN: 0–404–62340–9.

Includes: Clifford Davidson, "Memory, the Resurrection, and Early Drama"; "Violence and the Saint Play"; "British Saint Play Records"; "Illusion, Truth, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale"; "Thomas Cranmer and the Vision of Historical Drama"; "Repentence and the Fountain: The Transformation of Symbols in English Emblem Books"; "Robert Southwell: Lyric Poetry, the Restoration of Images, and Martyrdom"; "George Gerbert and the Architecture of Anglican Worship"; and "The Anglican Setting of Richard Crashaw's Devotional Verse."

Delph, Ronald K., Michelle M. Fontaine, and John Jeffries Martin, eds. Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 76. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2006. xiv + 266 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 1–931112–58–4.

Includes: John Jeffries Martin, "Renovatio and Reform in Early Modern Italy"; Massimo Firpo, "Lorenzo Lotto and the Reformation in Venice"; Michelle M. Fontaine, "Making Heresy Marginal in Modena"; Paul V. Murphy, "Rumors of Heresy in Mantua"; Ronald K. Delph, "Renovatio, Reformatio, and Humanist Ambition in Rome"; Frederick J. McGinness, "An Erasmian Legacy: Ecclesiastes and the Reform of Preaching at Trent"; Paolo Simoncelli, "The Turbulent Life of the Florentine Community in Venice"; Paul F. Grendler, "Gasparo Contarini and the University of Padua"; Marion Leathers Kuntz, "Venice and Justice: Saint Mark and Moses"; Silvana Seidel Menchi, "The Inquisitor as Mediator"; Gigliola Fragnito, "The Expurgatory Policy of the Church and the Works of Gasparo Contarini"; Elena Bonora, "The Heresy of a Venetian Prelate: Archbishop Filippo Mocenigo"; Anne Jacobson Schutte, "Legal Remedies for Forced Monachization in Early Modern Italy"; and John W. O'Malley, "An Epilogue."

Ferrer, Véronique, and Anne Mantero, eds., with an introduction by Michel Jeanneret. Les paraphrases bibliques aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles: Actes du Colloque de Bordeaux des 22, 23 et 24 septembre 2004. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 415. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 492 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €130. ISBN: 2–600–01094–7.

Includes: Michel Jeanneret, "Introduction"; Max Engammare, "La paraphrase biblique entre belles fidèles et laides infidèles"; Guy Bedouelle, "Les 'paraphrases' pédagogiques de Lefèvre d'Etaples"; Jean-François Cottier, "La théorie du genre de la paraphrase selon Erasme"; Daniel Ménager, "La paraphrase érasmienne du discours de Paul à l'Aréopage"; Jean-Claude Margolin, "Grammaire, principes exégétiques et humanisme chrétien dans le commentaire d'Erasme au psaume I Beatus vir"; Noëlle Balley, "Paraphrastes perversus depravator: les censures de Noël Beda contre les paraphrases d'Erasme sur les quatre Evangiles"; Christophe Bourgeois, "Les paraphrases littéraires: imitation ou explication?"; Michele Mastroianni, "La paraphrase biblique comme exercice rhétorique de variatio et d'iteratio dans 'Le Dernier Jugement' de Chassignet"; Jean Brunel, "Sur quelques paraphrases françaises et latines de la Genèse par Scévole de Sainte-Marthe"; Samuel Junod, "'Maintenant moi, Jérémie': de l'exposition de Jérémie à l'exploitation de Jérémie";Véronique Ferrer, "Réformes de l'Ecclésiaste, entre rimes et raisons"; Anne Mantero, "Paraphrase, autorité et altérité: Godeau interprète de saint Paul"; Jean-Michel Noailly, "Présentation de la Bibliographie des psaumes imprimés en vers français"; Isabelle Garnier-Mathez, "Traduction et connivence: Marot, paraphraste évangélique des psaumes de David"; Eliane Engelhard, "Les traductions en vers du psaume 84 entre 1542 et 1562"; Bruno Petey-Girard, "Les oraisons méditatives catholiques sur les pénitentiaux: la paraphrase au service de la vie spirituelle"; Julien Goeury, "Paraphrastes ou réviseurs? Les poètes protestants face au psautier sous le régime de l'édit de Nantes (1598–1685)"; Inès Kirschleger, "Une préface singulière au psautier huguenot: Le Voyage de Beth-el de Jean de Focquembergues"; Christian Belin, "Comment se tenir sur un fleuve? Paraphrase et exégèse du Super flumina Babylonis au XVII^e siècle"; Stéphane Macé, "Le psautier de Racan, laboratoire des formes"; Isabelle His and Jean Vignes, "Les paraphrases de psaumes de Baïf, La Noue et d'Aubigné, mises en musique par Claude Le Jeune (1606): regards croisés du musicologue et du littéraire"; Marc Desmet, "Les paraphrases d'un poète musicien: la Bible dans les Cantiques spirituels de Charles de Courbes (1622)"; Thierry Favier, "Entre prière et concert: les Psaumes à plusiers parties (ca. 1710) de Pierre-César Abeille"; and Jean Vignes, "Conclusions."

Gorni, Guglielmo, ed. Italique: Poésie italienne de la Renaissance. Vol. 9. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 130 pp. $57.05. ISBN: 2–600–01088–2.

Includes: Lina Bolzoni, "Les Asolani de Pietro Bembo, ou le double portrait de l'amour"; Emilio Torchio, "Giovanni Guidiccioni: sonetti in sequenza d'autore (il ms. Parmense 344)"; Paola Cosentino, "Tragiche eroine. Virtù femminili fra poesia drammatica e trattati sul comportamento"; and Guglielmo Gorni, "Prefazione a un Repertorio metrico della canzone italiana dai Siciliani al Tasso."

Knoppers, Laura Lunger, and Gregory M. Colón Semenza, eds. Milton in Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xii + 260 pp. index. illus. $69.95. ISBN: 1–4039–7237–0.

Includes: Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Colón Semenza, "Introduction"; Sanford Schwartz, "Reconstructing Eden: Paradise Lost and C. S. Lewis's Perelandra"; Diana Treviño Benet, "Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell: The Real Story"; Stephen Burt, "'Fighting Since Time Began': Milton and Satan in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials"; Lauren Shohet, "His Dark Materials, Paradise Lost, and the Common Reader"; Gregory M. Colón Semenza, "Adapting Milton for Children: Margaret Hodges's Comus (1996) and the Tale of Childe Rowland"; Eric C. Brown, "Popularizing Pandaemonium: Milton and the Horror Film"; Laura Lunger Knoppers, "Miltonic Loneliness and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein"; Ryan Netzley, "'"Better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven", Is That It?': Ethics, Apocalypticism, and Allusion in The Devil's Advocate"; Lisa Sternlieb, "'You Seemed to Go Way Back': The Evolution of Adam in The Lady Eve"; Catherine Gimelli Martin, "Sabrina Fair Goes to the Movies: Milton, Myth, and Romance"; Julie H. Kim, "Sabrina . . . Or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Specter of Milton in Sabrina (1995)"; Douglas L. Howard, "National Lampoon's Animal House and the Fraternity of Milton"; David Boocker, "Milton after 9/11"; Angelica Duran, "The Blind Leading the Blind and Sighted: John Milton and Helen Keller"; Reginald A. Wilburn, "Malcolm X and African-American Literary Appropriations of Paradise Lost"; Bruno Lessard, "The Environment, the Body, and the Digital Fallen Angel in Simon Biggs's Pandaemonium"; Thomas H. Luxon, "Milton and the Web"; and Stanley Fish, "Afterword."

Kusukawa, Sachiko, and Ian Maclean, eds. Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe. Oxford-Warburg Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 274 pp. index. illus. $185. ISBN: 0–19–928878–X.

Includes: Richard Scholar, "Introduction"; Sven Dupré, "Visualization in Renaissance Optics: The Function of Geometrical Diagrams and Pictures in the Transmission of Practical Knowledge"; Catherine Eagleton, "Medieval Sundials and Manuscripts Sources: The Transmission of Information about the Navicula and the Organum Ptolomei in Fifteenth-Century Europe"; Sachiko Kusukawa, "The Uses of Pictures in the Formation of Learned Knowledge: The Cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius"; Christoph Lüthy, "Where Logical Necessity Becomes Visual Persuasion: Descartes's Clear and Distinct Illustrations"; Ian Maclean, "Diagrams in the Defence of Galen: Medical Uses of Tables, Squares, Dichotomies, Wheels, and Latitudes, 1480–1574"; Alexander Marr, "The Production and Distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadron"; Adam Mosley, "Objects of Knowledge: Mathematics and Models in Sixteenth-Century Cosmology and Astronomy"; Isabelle Pantin, "Kepler's Epitome: New Images for an Innovative Book"; and Volker R. Remmert, "'Docet parva pictura, quod multae scripturae non dicunt.' Frontispieces, their Functions, and their Audiences in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Sciences."

Lanaro, Paola, ed. At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400–1800. Essays and Studies 9. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 412 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. gloss. $32 CAN. ISBN: 0–7727–2031–2.

Includes: Paolo Lanaro, "At the Centre of the Old World. Reinterpreting Venetian Economic History"; Andrea Mozzato, "The Productions of Woollens in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Venice"; Marcello Della Valentina, "The Silk Industry in Venice: Guilds and Labour Relations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"; Francesca Trivellato, "Murano Glass, Continuity and Transformation (1400–1800)"; Walter Panciera, "The Industries of Venice in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"; Edoardo Demo, "Wool and Silk: The Textile Urban Industry of the Venetian Mainland (15th–17th Centuries)"; Carlo Marco Belfanti, "Hosiery Manufacturing in the Venetian Republic (16th–18th Centuries)"; Giovanni Favero, "Old and New Ceramics: Manufacturers, Products, and Markets in the Venetian Republic in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"; Luca Mocarelli, "Manufacturing Activity in Venetian Lombardy: Specialized Products and the Formation of a Regional Market (17th–18th Centuries)"; Francesco Vianello, "Rural Manufactures and Patterns of Economic Specialization: Cases from the Venetian Mainland"; and Maurice Aymard, "Conclusions."

Lethbridge, J. B., ed. Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/AUP, 2006. 386 pp. index. illus. $55. ISBN: 0–8386–4066–4.

Includes: J. B. Lethbridge, "Introduction: Recuperating the Return to History"; John Moore, "Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender"; Thomas Herron, "Plucking the Perrot: Muiopotmos and Irish Politics"; Andrew King, "'Well Grounded, Finely Framed, and Strongly Trussed up Together': The 'Medieval' Structure of The Faerie Queene"; Syrithe Pugh, "Acrasia and Bondage: Guyon's Perversion of the Ovidian Erotic in Book II of The Faerie Queene"; Graham Atkin, "Raleigh, Spenser, and Elizabeth: Acts of Friendship in The Faerie Queene, Book IV"; James Nohrnberg, "Britomart's Gone Abroad to Brute-land, Colin Clout's Come Courting from the Salvage Ire-land: Exile and the Kingdom in Some of Spenser's Fictions for 'Crossing Over'"; E. A. F. Porges Watson, "Mutabilitie's Debateable Land: Spenser's Ireland and the Frontiers of Faerie"; J. B. Lethbridge, "Spenser's Last Days: Ireland, Career, Mutability, Allegory"; Catherine Addison, "Rhyming Against the Grain: A New Look at the Spenserian Stanza"; and Richard Danson Brown, "MacNeice in Fairy Land."

Lieb, Michael, and Albert C. Labriola, eds. Milton in the Age of Fish: Essays on Authorship, Text, and Terrorism. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006. xii + 320 pp. index. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0–8207–0384–2.

Includes: Lana Cable, "Introduction"; Marshall Grossman, "The Onomastic Destiny of Stanley Fish"; Barbara K. Lewalski, "Milton's Idea of Authorship"; Annabel Patterson, "Milton's Negativity"; Albert C. Labriola, "The Son as an Angel in Paradise Lost"; Stella P. Revard, "Milton and Henry More: The Chariot of Paternal Deity in Paradise Lost, Book 6"; Joan S. Bennett, "Mary Astell, Lucy Hutchinson, John Milton, and Feminist Liberation Theology"; Joseph Wittreich, "'The Ramifications of Those Ramifications': Compounding Contexts for Samson Agonistes"; David Loewenstein, "Samson Agonistes and the Culture of Religious Terror"; Michael Lieb, "Returning the Gorgon Medusa's Gaze: Terror and Annihilation in Milton"; and Stanley Fish, "'There Is Nothing He Cannot Ask': Milton, Liberalism, and Terrorism."

Marshall, Peter, and Alexandra M. Walsham, eds. Angels in the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 326 pp. index. illus. $99. ISBN: 0–521–84332–4.

Includes: Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham, "Migrations of Angels in the Early Modern World"; Bruce Gordon, "The Renaissance Angel"; Philip M. Soergel, "Luther on the Angels"; Peter Marshall, "Angels around the Deathbed: Variations on a Theme in the English Art of Dying"; Fernando Cervantes, "Angels Conquering and Conquered: Changing Perceptions in Spanish America"; Alexandra Walsham, "Angels and Idols in England's Long Reformation"; Robin Briggs, "Dubious Messengers: Bodin's Daemon, the Spirit World and the Sadducees"; Trevor Johnson, "Guardian Angels and the Society of Jesus"; Raymond Gillespie, "Imagining Angels in Early Modern Ireland"; María Tausiet, "'Patronage of angels and combat of demons': Good versus Evil in Seventeenth-Century Spain"; Joad Raymond, "'With the tongues of angels': Angelic Conversations in Paradise Lost and Seventeenth-Century England"; Elizabeth Reis, "Otherworldly Visions: Angels, Devils and Gender in Puritan New England"; and Owen Davies, "Angels in Elite and Popular Magic, 1650–1790."

Mazzocco, Angelo, ed. Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 143. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xii + 324 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $129. ISBN: 90–04–15244–X.

Includes: Angelo Mazzocco, "Introduction"; Ronald G. Witt, "Kristeller's Humanists as Heirs of the Medieval Dictatores"; Robert Black, "The Origins of Humanism"; Paul F. Grendler, "Humanism: Ancient Learning, Criticism, Schools, and Universities"; Massimo Miglio, "Curial Humanism Seen Through the Prism of the Papal Library"; Giuseppe Mazzotta, "Humanism and the Medieval Encyclopedic Tradition"; Riccardo Fubini, "Humanism and Scholasticism: Toward an Historical Definition"; James Hankins, "Religion and the Modernity# of Renaissance Humanism"; Charles G. Nauert, "Rethinking 'Christian Humanism'"; Eckhard Kessler, "Renaissance Humanism: The Rhetorical Turn"; Arthur F. Kinney, "Literary Humanism in the Renaissance"; Angelo Mazzocco, "Petrarch: Founder of Renaissance Humanism?"; John Monfasani, "Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond, and Chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima (With an Edition and Translation)"; and Alison Brown, "Reinterpreting Renaissance Humanism: Marcello Adriani and the Recovery of Lucretius."

Méniel, Bruno, ed. Éthiques et formes littéraires à la Renaissance: Journée d'études du 19 Avril 2002. Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance. Le savoir de Mantice. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 244 pp. index. bibl. €40. ISBN: 2–7453–1505–6.

Includes: Bruno Méniel, "Note sur éthique et esthétique à la Renaissance"; Yvonne Bellenger, "L'invention du sonnet satirique par Du Bellay"; Myriam Marrache-Gouraud, "Le 'passetems', une cuisine poétique"; Martial Martin, "La satire ménippée: genre stoïcien?"; Marie Madeleine Fontaine, "Les Guises et les bergers"; Frank Greiner, "Conversation et éthique amoureuse dans le roman pastoral: de Sannazar à Frénicle (1504–1634)"; Déborah Blocker, "Costumi, virtù, et onestà: la question des 'moeurs' dans le Pastor fido et sa querelle"; Claudie Martin-Ulrich, "Le spectacle de la foi: conseil et édification dans les Tragédies saintes de Louis Des Masures"; Bruno Méniel, "Existe-t-il une éthique du poème romanesque?"; Bruno Petey-Girard, "à propos des Homilies, ou Contemplations sur la Passion de nostre sauveur Jesus Christ de Pontus de Tyard"; and Emmanuel Bury, "Guillaume Du Vair et la question de l'ethos dans l'éloquence parlementaire."

Jourde, Michel, and Jean-Charles Monferran, eds. Le Lexique Métalittéraire Français (xvi^e–xvii^e siècles). Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 77. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 276 pp. index. tbls. bibl. CHF35. ISBN: 2–600–01062–9.

Includes: Michel Jourde and Jean-Charles Monferran, "L'histoire du lexique métalittéraire français (XVI^e–XVII^e siècles): quelques enjeux"; Michel Jourde, "Le mot composition vers 1550: entre lexiques techniques et langue commune"; Mathilde Bombart, "Les 'querelles de l'eloquence': art oratoire et conscience scripturaire au XVII^e siècle"; Emmanuel Buron, "Comique et propriété dans la préface de l'Amoureux Repos de Guillaume des Autels"; Emmanuelle Mortgat-Longuet, "L'emploi du mot vie chez Guillaume Colletet: de l'éloge de l''illustre' à la critique, du poète français"; Bénédicte Louvat-Molozay, "Les noms du personnage de thêatre de Laudun à d'Aubignac"; Audrey Duru, "Les Essais poétiques: emplois et sens du mot essai(s) dans les titres de reueils poétiques à la fin du XVI^e siècle et au début du XVII^e siècle"; Nicolas Lombart, "Du 'mot' d'hymne au 'nom' d'hinne: l'approche nominaliste d'un genre ronsardien"; Grégoire Holtz, "Le stile nu des relations de voyage"; Michèle Rosellini, "La prosopopée ou l'oraison directe: une incertitude terminologique à la source de la réflexion narratologique au XVII^e siècle"; Nadia Cernogora, "Translation ou métaphore? Les enjeux d'une question de terminologie dans les rhétoriques, les arts poétiques et les traités linguistiques au XVI^e et au début du XVII^e siècle"; Olivier Halevy, "Donner un nom aux vers: le moment lexical de la versification français (1548–1620)"; Jean-Charles Monferran,"Les diastoles de Thomas Sébillet"; and Michel Jourde and Jean-Charles Monferran, "Guide pratique en guise de bibliographie."

Norman, Buford, and James Day, eds. Civilization in French and Francophone Literature. French Literature Series 33. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. xiv + 220 pp. + 4 b/w pls. illus. $60. ISBN: 90–420–2049–0.

Includes: George Hoffmann, "France's First Revolution: Hamlet and the 'Unresolved Man' of 1589"; Sue Farquhar, "On Civility: The Model of Sparta in Montaigne's 'Defence de Seneque et de Plutarque'"; Scott Juall, "Of Cannibals, Credo, and Custom: Jean de Léry's Calvinist View of Civilization in Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil (1578)"; Marcella Munson, "Bien m'en avés rendu le conte: Redeeming Economies in Yvain"; Béa Aaronson, "La Civilisation du goût: Savoir et saveur à la table de Louis XIV"; Emmanuel Bury, "Un idéal de la culture française entre humanisme et classicisme: 'civiliser la doctrine'"; Sophie Rollin, "De la société de salon à la société de cour: l'ambivalence du processus de civilisation"; Murielle Perrier, "Les traces ineffaçables de la civilisation dans Paul et Virginie"; Laura Balladur, "Work, Machines, and Vapors in Late Eighteenth-Century France"; Nicolas Di Méo, "La représentation des populations noires dans l'œuvre de Paul Morand: enjeux idéologiques et politiques"; Denise Brahimi, "Roman et société dans la France contemporaine"; Liliane Ayad Toss, "L'image de la France dans le dialogue de Gaulle-Sirius: Suprématie politique et leadership humaniste"; and Hélène Merlin-Kajman, "Civilité: une certaine modalité du vivre-ensemble."

Oram, Richard, ed. The Kings and Queens of Scotland. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Limited, 2006. 334 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $22.95. ISBN: 0–7524–3814–X.

Includes: Richard Oram, "Introduction"; "The Earliest Kings"; "The Kings of Strathclyde"; "The Kings of Dál Riata"; "The Pictish Kings"; "The Kings of Alba"; "Malcolm III"; "Donald III, Duncan II & Edmund"; "Edgar"; "Alexander I"; "David I"; "Malcolm IV"; "William I"; "Alexander II"; "Alexander III"; "Margaret"; "John I Balliol"; "Robert I Bruce"; "David II & Edward Balliol"; "Robert II Stewart"; "Robert III"; "James I"; "James II"; "James III"; "James IV"; "James V"; "Mary"; "James VI"; "Charles I"; "Charles II"; "James VII"; "William II & Mary II"; and "Anne."

Ortola, Marie-Sol, and Marie Roig Miranda, eds. Langues et identités culturelles dans l'Europe des XVI^e et XVII^e siècles. Vol. 1. Actes du colloque international organisé à Nancy (13, 14 et 15 novembre 2003). Europe XVI–XVII 7. Nancy: Groupe de recherche "XVI^e et XVII^e siècles en Europe", 2005. 390 pp. tbls. €18. ISBN: 2–9515883–6–4.

Includes: Marie-Luce Demonet, "Les climats linguistiques"; Nathalie Fournier, "Outillage et bricolage dans la grammaire française aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles: l'exemple de la Grammaire et syntaxe françoise de Charles Maupas (1618)"; Gilbert Fabre, "La langue des Morisques de Castille et d'Aragon ou l'espace discursif de la trace en Espagne aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles"; Anne-Élisabeth Spica, "Identité sociale et code linguistique: le discours emblématique et ses commentaires dans le Mercure galant (1672–1692)"; Édith Mazeaud-Karagiannis, "Langues et identités culturelles dans la Grèce du XVI^e siècle: le temoignage de Belon, Thevet, Nicolay"; José Manuel Losada, "Langues européennes d'une période mouvementée"; Corinne Mencé-Caster, "Diachronie des formes d'expression de la courtoisie et configurations des idenitités socioculturelles en Espagne: XIII^e–XVII^e siècles"; Concetta Cavallini, "La correspondence officielle entre les chancelleries italiennes et la cour de France en 1570–1590. La contribution de la langue à la formation d'un stéréotype anti-italien"; Alexandra Testino-Zafiropoulos; "Rodomontades espagnoles et identité nationale: des belles paroles proférées à l'improviste"; Cécile Bertin-Elisabeth, "Poétique de la fermeture dans le roman picaresque: un langage identitaire?"; Alain Cullière, "Grammaire et prédication. Du bon usage de l'Institutio Gallicae linguae de Jean Garnier (1558)"; Marie-Hélène Maux-Piovano; "L'indentité (culturelle?) espagnol au XVII^e siècle d'apres le recueil phrasèologique d'A. de Salazar (1614)"; Claude Brévot Dromzée, "Le prospectus d'un académicien. Discours d'un fidele sujet du Roy, touchant l'establissement d'une Compagnie Françoise pour le Commerce des Indes Orientales (1664)"; Florence Alazard, "à la recherche d'une langue politique: les lamenti du XVI^e siècle"; Jean-Gérard Lapacherie, "Le mythe de l'ordonnance de Villers-Cotterets"; Marc Zuili, "Défense de la langue vernaculaire et naissance d'un sentiment national dans l'Espagne des XVI^e et XVII^e siècles"; Jean-François Courouau, "Une langue pour un royaume? La dénomination du catalan à Valence aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles"; Karine Durin, "La langue: 'un bien común a todos'. Approche de l'idée de langue commune en Espagne au Siècle d'Or"; Hugues Didier, "L'Espagne écartelée entre une identité à fondement linguistique (le castillan ou espagnol) et l'idéal d'une monarchie chrétienne universelle"; Jean Lacroix, "L'enjeu linguistique et patriotique de la Jérusalem délivrée"; Martial Martin, "Le plurilinguisme et la question de l'identité culturelle française dans la Satyre Menippee de la vertu du catholicon d'Espagne et de la tenue des Estatz de Paris"; Véronique Luzel, "Le nationalisme linguistique dans le Palais des curieux (1612) de Béroalde de Verville"; Antonella Amatuzzi, "Les États de Savoie aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles: deux langues et deux identitès culturelles?"; and Jean Schillinger, "Le combat contre l'hégémonie linguistique française chez les pamphlétaires allemands de la seconde moitié du XVII^e siècle."

Ortola, Marie-Sol, and Marie Roig Miranda, eds. Langues et identités culturelles dans l'Europe des XVI^e et XVII^e siècles. Vol. 2. Actes du colloque international organisé à Nancy (13, 14 et 15 novembre 2003). Europe XVI–XVII 8. Nancy: Groupe de recherche "XVI^e et XVII^e siècles en Europe", 2005. 348 pp. tbls. €18. ISBN: 2–9515883–7–2.

Includes: Youseff El Alaqui, "Langue et occidentalisation: morisques et indiens face à la politique linguistique de l'Espagne aux XVI^e–XVII^e siècles"; Catherine Gaignard, "L'arabe, vecteur identitaire de la communauté morisque grenadine au XVI^e siècle"; Gilles Banderier, "Enjeux linguistiques et idéologiques des traductions de Du Bartas (1579–1650)"; Janine Strauss, "En quelle langue s'exprima l'identité culturelle des Juifs d'Italie aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles?"; Francine Wild, "Le Latin: langue des savants aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles"; Myriam Yardeni, "Langue française et identité 'réfugiée': Jean Rou et Pierre Bayle"; Jacqueline Ferreras, "Les Anotaciones a la poesía de Garcilaso de la Vega de Fernando de Herrera ou la consécration de l'indépendence du castillan comme langue littéraire"; Louis Imperiale, "L'usage littéraire de la langue vulgaire chez Pietro Bembo"; Élisabeth Rothmund, "La langue allemande au XVII^e siècle, entre recherche et reniement"; Adrien Roig, "Défense et illustration de la langue portugaise par António Ferreira (1528–1569)"; Giovanna Devincenzo, "De la réflexion linguistique à l'identité culturelle: pratique de la langue et practique littéraire chez Marie de Gournay"; Vasile Maruta and Adriana Mitu, "'Signes' de l'identité roumaine dans le Conseil ou la dispute du sage avec le monde ou le jugement de l'esprit et du corps du prince moldave Dimitrie Cantemir"; Wim J. A. Bots, "L'apport linguistique et poétique de Joachim Du Bellay dans la constitution de l'identité de la nation française au XVI^e siècle"; Véronique Zaercher, "Une contribution mesurée au débat sur la langue française et ses enjeux culturels: la lettre de Jacques de Beaune au Seigneur Camille (1548)"; Charles Brucker, "Métamorphose d'un genre ou quête d'identité: de l'épigramme gréco-latine à l'emblème français du XVI^e siècle"; Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud, "Quand la Bible parle aux 'idiots': Sébastien Castellion et ses deux traductions de l'Écriture"; Anne-Laure Metzger-Rambach, "Du Rhin à la Tamise: la littérature nationale à la faveur des pérégrinations du Narrenschiff de Sebastian Brandt (1494)"; Jean-Christophe Saladin, "Le latin macaronique ou la tentation de la langue vivante"; Monica Pavesio, "Les adaptations théâtrales espagnoles et italiennes d'Antoine le Metel d'Ouville"; Stéphane Oury, "Les emprunts réciproques français-espagnol aux XVI^e–XVII^e siècles"; Denis Fachard, "Plurilinguisme à la chancellerie et dans les rapports d'ambassadeurs de la républiques florentine"; Jean-Claude Arnould, "Langues et défintion de l'identité français dans le livre V d'Amadis"; and Marie Roig Miranda, "Sonnet et plurilinguisme ai Siècle d'Or espagnol."

Samson, Alexander, ed. The Spanish Match: Prince Charles's Journey to Madrid, 1623. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 244 pp. + 12 color and 8 b/w pls. index. append. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0–7546–4087–6.

Includes: Alexander Samson, "Introduction: The Spanish Match"; Jerry Brotton, "Buying the Renaissance: Prince Charles's Art Purchases in Madrid, 1623"; Lesley Ellis Miller, "Dress to Impress: Prince Charles Plays Madrid, March–September 1623"; David Sánchez Cano, "Entertainments in Madrid for the Prince of Wales: Political Functions of Festivals"; Henry Ettinghausen, "The Greatest News Story Since the Resurrection? Andrés de Almansa y Mendoza's Coverage of Prince Charles's Spanish Trip"; Alexander Samson, "1623 and the Politics of Translation"; Jeremy Robbins, "The Spanish Literary Response to the Visit of Charles, Prince of Wales"; Karen Britland, "A Fairy-tale Marriage: Charles and Henrietta Maria's Romance"; Marie-Claude Canova-Green, "A French View of the Marriage: Abraham Rémy's La Galatée ou les Adventures du Prince Astiagès"; Claire Jowitt, "'I am Another Woman': The Spanish and French Matches in Massinger's The Renegado (1624) and The Unnatural Combat (1624–5)"; Trudi L. Darby, "The Black Knight's Festival Book? Thomas Middleton's A Game of Chess"; Clare Wikeley, "Honour Conceal'd; Strangely Reveal'd: The Fool and the Water-Poet"; and Roberta Anderson, "Appendix: Diplomatic Representatives from the Hapsburg Monarchy to the Court of James VI and I."

Schmidt, Paul, ed. The 1590 Faerie Queene: Paratexts and Publishing. Studies in the Literary Imagination 38:2. Atlanta: Department of English of Georgia State University, 2005. 242 pp. append. illus. bibl. $20. ISBN: ISSN 0039–3819.

Includes: Wayne Erickson, "Citations, Images, Acknowledgements"; William Oram, "Introduction: Spenser's Paratexts"; Toshiyuki Suzuki, "A Note of the Errata of the 1590 Quarto of The Faerie Queene"; Ty Buckman, "Forcing the Poet into Prose: 'Gealous Opinions and Misconstructions' and Spenser's Letter to Ralegh"; Andrew Wallace, "Reading the 1590 Faerie Queene with Thomas Nashe"; Jean R. Brink, "Precedence and Patronage: The Order of Spenser's Dedicatory Sonnets (1590)"; Fritz Levy, "Behind the Back Matter: The Liminalities of The Faerie Queene (1590)"; Wayne Erickson, "The Poet's Power and the Rhetoric of Humility in Spenser's Dedicatory Sonnets"; Patricia Wareh, "Humble Presents: Pastoral and Gift-Giving in the Commendatory Verses and Dedicatory Sonnets"; Thomas Herron, "Ralegh's Gold: Placing Spenser's Dedicatory Sonnets"; Judith Owens, "Commercial Settings of the 1590 Faerie Queene"; and Andrew Zurcher, "Getting It Back to Front in 1590: Spenser's Dedications, Nashe's Insinuations, and Ralegh's Equivocations."

Stiff, Paul, ed. Typography Papers 6. London: Hyphen Press, 2005. 156 pp. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0–907259–29–4.

Includes: Nicolette Gray, "The Newberry Alphabet and the Revival of the Roman Capital in Fifteenth-Century Italy"; Giovanni Mardersteig, "Leon Battista Alberti and the Revival of the Roman Inscriptional Letter in the Fifteenth Century"; Paul Stiff, "Brunelleschi's Epitaph and the Design of Public Letters in Fifteenth-Century Florence"; and James Mosley, "Giovan Francesco Cresci and the Baroque Letter in Rome."

Syndram, Dirk, Moritz Woelk, and Martina Minning, eds. Giambologna in Dresden: Die Geschenke der Medici. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. 120 pp. illus. bibl. €19.90. ISBN: 3–422–06641–1.

Includes: Dirk Syndram and Moritz Woelk, "Einführung"; Dirk Syndram, "Merkur"; Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, "Schlafende Venus und Satyr"; MartinaMinning, "Nessus und Deianira"; Moritz Woelk, "Mars"; Martina Minning, "Zur Sammlungsgeschichte"; Charles Avery, "Giambologna versus Michelangelo: Skulptur im Zeitalter des Manierismus"; Antje Scherner, "Skulpturengeschenke der Medici in der dresdner Kunstkammer"; Damian Dombrowski, "Die Entdeckung der Virtus: Florenz und der Aufschwung der dresdner Kunst unter Christian I. Von Sachsen"; Dorothea Diemer, "Giambolognas Wirkung in Deutschland"; Dimitrios Zikos, "Die dresdner Giambolognas: Apologie ihrer Eigenhändigkeit"; Holger Schuckelt, "Waffen als Geschenk des Grossherzogs Francesco I. de' Medici aus dem Jahre 1587"; Eva Ströber, "Porzellan als Geschenk des Grossherzogs Ferdinando I. de' Medici aus dem Jahre 1590"; and Martina Minning, "Die Geschenklisten von 1587 und 1590."

Tiner, Elza C., ed. Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama. Studies in Early English Drama 7. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xxviii + 238 pp. index. map. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0–8020–9082–6.

Includes: Alexandra F. Johnston, "The Audience of Early Drama: REED and the Techniques of Historical Fiction"; David Mills, "Using REED in Teaching the Whitsun Plays of Tudor Chester"; Mary A. Blackstone, "'It's as if I'm really doing research!'"; Margaret Rogerson and Betsy Taylor, "Teaching without Texts: Early English Drama for Performance Studies Students"; Stephen F. Page, "Using REED Chester for Classroom and Performance"; Anne Brannen, "Using Historical Documents in the Literature Classroom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Court Cases"; Gloria J. Betcher, "Teaching Poems from Robert Herrick's Hesperides with the Aid of REED Documents"; Rosalind Conklin Hays, "The Use of REED Documents in Teaching Early Modern English History"; Barbara D. Palmer, "'The husbandry and manage of my house': Teaching Women's Studies from the Records of Early English Drama Collections"; James Stokes, "Palaeography in the Undergraduate Drama Class: Teaching the Secret Life of Documents"; Abigail Ann Young, "REED and Language Teaching"; Elza C. Tiner, "Going to HEL: REED and Diachronic Linguistics"; and Rosalind Conklin Hays, "Introducing Undergraduates to Documents in REED Collections."

Wyke, Maria, ed. Julius Caesar in Western Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006. xviii + 366 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 1–4051–2599–3.

Includes: Christopher Pelling, "Judging Julius Caesar"; Mark Toher, "The Earliest Depiction of Caesar and the Later Tradition"; Christine Walde, "Caesar, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and their Reception"; Jacqueline Long, "Julian Augustus' Julius Caesar"; Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani, "The Seat and Memory of Power: Caesar's Curia and Forum"; John Osborne, "St. Peter's Needle and the Ashes of Julius Caesar: Invoking Rome's Imperial History at the Papal Court, ca. 1100–1300"; Nicholas Temple, "Julius II as Second Caesar"; Louisa MacKenzie, "Imitation Gone Wrong: The 'Pestilentially Ambitious' Figure of Julius Caesar in Michel de Montaigne's Essais"; Margaret Malamud, "Manifest Destiny and the Eclipse of Julius Caesar"; Maria Wyke, "Caesar, Cinema, and National Identity in the 1910s"; Giuseppe Pucci, "Caesar the Foe: Roman Conquest and National Resistance in French Popular Culture"; Nicholas Royle, "Julius Caesar and the Democracy to Come"; Niall W. Slater, "Shaw's Caesars"; Jane Dunnett, "The Rhetoric of Romanità;: Representations of Caesar in Fascist Theatre"; Jorit Wintjes, "From 'Capitano' to 'Great Commander': The Military Reception of Caesar from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries"; Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle, "Crossing the Rubicon into Paris: Caesarian Comparisons from Napoleon to de Gaulle"; and Maria Wyke, "A Twenty-First-Century Caesar."

Monographs:

Anderson, Christy Jo. Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 276 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0–521–82027–8.

Aubin, Jean. Le Latin et l'Astrolabe: Études inédites sur le règne de D. Manuel 1495–1521. Édition posthume préparée d'après les papiers laissés par l'auteur 3. Ed. Maria Da Conceição Flores, Luís Filipe F. R. Thomas, and Françoise Aubin. Paris: Publications du Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006. xxxiv + 596 pp. + 9 color and 15 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. €35. ISBN: 972–8462–43–3.

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Bandera, Cesáreo. The Humble Story of Don Quixote: Reflections on the Birth of the Modern Novel. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. viii + 318 pp. index. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0–8132–1452–1.

Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. Bronx: Fordham University Press, 2006. 416 pp. $80 (cl), $28 (pbk). ISBN: 0–8232–2703–0 (cl), 0–8232–2704–9 (pbk).

Biow, Douglas. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xxii + 244 pp. index. illus. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0–8014–4481–1.

Black, Crofton. Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xiv + 266 pp. index. append. bibl. $129. ISBN: 90–04–15315–2.

Blackwell, Richard J. Behind the Scences at Galileo's Trial. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. viii + 246 pp. index. append. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0–268–02201–1.

Blank, Paula. Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. x + 214 pp. index. illus. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 0–8014–4475–3.

Bödefeld, Gerda. Die Villen von Siena und ihre Bauherren: Architektur und Lebenswirklichkeit im frühen 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2003. 216 pp. illus. tbls. map. gloss. bibl. €39. ISBN: 3–496–01273–0.

Boltanski, Ariane. Les ducs de Nevers et l'état royal: Genèse d'un compromis (ca. 1550–ca. 1600). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 419. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 580 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF125. ISBN: 2–600–01022–X.

Brachmann, Christoph. Memoria, Fama, Historia: Schlachtengedenken und Identitätsstiftung am lothringischen Hof (1477–1525) nach dem Sieg über Karl den Kühnen. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2006. 392 pp. + 20 color pls. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. €98. ISBN: 3–7861–2533–3.

Brett, Philip. William Byrd and His Contemporaries: Essays and a Monograph. Ed. Joseph Kerman and Davitt Moroney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiv + 252 pp. index. append. $39.95. ISBN: 0–520–24758–2.

Brown, Deborah J. Descartes and the Passionate Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 232 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0–521–85728–7.

Buccola, Regina M. Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture. The Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2006. 294 pp. index. illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 1–57591–103–5.

Burnett, Amy N. Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529–1629. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 448 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $74. ISBN: 0–19–530576–0.

Büttner, Nils. Geschichte der Landschaftsmalerei. Munich: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2006. 416 pp. index. illus. €138. ISBN: 3–7774–2925–2.

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Campbell, Jodi. Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. vi + 176 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0–7546–5418–4.

Carman, Glen E. Rhetorical Conquests: Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance Imperialism. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 35. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2006. viii + 250 pp. index. append. bibl. $43.95. ISBN: 1–55753–403–9.

Cecchi, Alessandro. Botticelli. Milan: Federico Motta Editore, 2005. 384 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €135. ISBN: 88–7179–480–X.

Cohen, Adam Max. Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2006. xiv + 230 pp. index. illus. bibl. $69.95. ISBN: 1–4039–7206–0.

Cossar, Roisin. The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265–c.1400. The Medieval Mediterranean Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500, 63. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xiv + 228 pp. index. bibl. $116. ISBN: 90–04–15222–9.

Cromartie, Alan. The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England, 1450–1642. Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 310 pp. index. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0–521–78269–4.

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Dall'Aglio, Stefano. L'eremita e il sinodo: Paolo Giustiniani e l'offesiva medicea contro Girolamo Savonarola (1516–1517). Il tempo di Savonarola 2. Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. xii + 210 pp. index. append. illus. €44. ISBN: 88–8450–187–3.

Davenport, Anne Ashley. Descartes's Theory of Action. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 142. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xviii + 306 pp. index. bibl. $129. ISBN: 90–04–15205–9.

de Armas, Frederick A. Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xviii + 286 pp. + 40 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $80. ISBN: 0–8020–9074–5.

Deiters, Maria. Kunst um 1400 im Erzstift Magdeburg: Studien zur Rekonstruktion eines verlorenen Zentrums. Neue Forschengen zur deutschen Kunst 7. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. 190 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. €76. ISBN: 3–87157–208–X.

Delbourgo, James. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 368 pp. index. illus. map. $29.95. ISBN: 0–674–02299–8.

Demaray, John G. From Pilgrimage to History: The Renaissance and Global Historicism. AMS Studies in the Renaissance 41. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 2006. xvi + 250 pp. + 28 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $82.50. ISBN: 0–404–62341–7.

De Smet, Ingrid A. R. Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 418. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 334 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF116. ISBN: 2–600–01071–8.

Dobby-Poirson, Florence. Le pathétique dans le théâtre de Robert Garnier. Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance 66. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 662 pp. index. bibl. €119. ISBN: 2–7453–1419–X.

Dugas, Don-John. Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660–1740. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xiv + 272 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $42.50. ISBN: 0–8262–1688–9.

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Ekserdjian, David. Parmigianino. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. x + 304 pp. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0–300–10827–3.

El Alaoui, Youssef. Jésuites, Morisques et Indiens: Étude comparative des méthodes d'évangélisation de la Compagnie de Jésus d'après les traités de José de Acosta (1588) et d'Ignacio de las Casas (1605–1607). Études et essais sur le Renaissance 65. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 678 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. chron. bibl. €99. ISBN: 2–745–31353–3.

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Fisher, Will. Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 224 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0–521–85851–8.

Friedman, Edward H. Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and Reality in the Spanish Novel from Lazarillo de Tormes to Niebla. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta — Hispanic Monographs, 2006. 328 pp. index. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 1–588–71091–2.

Fudge, Erica. Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. x + 224 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0–8014–4454–8.

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Gianfreda, Sandra. Caravaggio, Guercino, Mattia Preti: Das halbfigurige Historienbild und die Sammler des Seicento. Berlin: Edition Imorde, 2005. 248 pp. index. illus. bibl. €32. ISBN: 3–9809436–0–7.

Gil, Daniel Juan. Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xvi + 188 pp. index. tbls. $22. ISBN: 0–8166–4633–3.

Goodland, Katharine. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. viii + 254 pp. index. illus. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0–7546–5101–0.

Gregory, Tobias. From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii + 248 pp. index. bibl. $30. ISBN: 0–226–30755–7.

Griffiths, Jane. John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford, 2006. xii + 214 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0–19–927360–X.

Guercio, Gabriele. Art as Existence: The Artist's Monograph and Its Project. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. xiv + 378 pp. index. illus. $50. ISBN: 0–262–07268–8.

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Henderson, John S. The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xxxiv + 458 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0–300–10995–4.

Hoeges, Dirk. Niccolè Machiavelli. Dichter-Poeta Mit sämlichen Gedichten deutsch/italienisch. Con tutte le poesie tedesco/italiano. Dialoghi/Dialogues Literatur und Kultur Italiens und Frankreichs 10. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006. 278 pp. index. bibl. $32.95. ISBN: 3–631–54669–6.

Hurwich, Judith J. Noble Strategies: Marriage and Sexuality in the Zimmern Chronicle. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 75. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2006. viii + 278 pp. index. append. tbls. map. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 1–931–11259–2.

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Ibler, Reinhard. Der russische Gedichtzyklus: Ein Handbuch. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2006. xxii + 556 pp. index. bibl. €65. ISBN: 3–8253–5253–6.

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James, Brenda, and William D. Rubinstein. The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. xxiv + 372 pp. index. append. illus. chron. $26.95. ISBN: 0–06–114648–X.

Jones, Matthew L. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 384 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65 (cl), $27.50 (pbk). ISBN: 0–226–40954–6 (cl), 0–226–40955–4 (pbk).

Kahsnitz, Rainer. Carved Splendor: Late Gothic Altarpieces in Southern Germany, Austria, and South Tirol. Trans. Russell Stockman. Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2006. 480 pp. index. illus. bibl. $150. ISBN: 0–89236–853–5.

Karsten, Arne. Bernini: Der Schöpfer des barocken Rom. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2006. 272 pp. index. append. illus. map. chron. bibl. €24.90. ISBN: 3–406–54085–6.

Kelley, Donald R. Frontiers of History: Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 298 pp. index. $45. ISBN: 0–300–12062–1.

Kemp, Martin. Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. x + 214 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0–691–12905–3.

Kinney, Arthur F. Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama. New York: Routledge, 2006. xvi + 168 pp. index. illus. bibl. $27.95. ISBN: 0–415–97753–3.

Knape, Joachim. Poetik und Rhetorik in Deutschland 1300–1700. Gratia: Bamberger Schriften zur Renaissanceforschung 44. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. viii + 228 pp. index. illus. bibl. €68. ISBN: 3–447–05273–2.

Krans, Jan. Beyond What Is Written: Erasmus and Beza as Conjectural Critics of the New Testament. New Testament Tools and Studies 35. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. viii + 384 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $173. ISBN: 90–04–15286–5.

Kreitner, Kenneth. The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 2. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, Inc., 2004. xiv + 182 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $80. ISBN: 1–84383–075–2.

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Lamb, Mary Ellen. The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson. Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 2. London: Routledge, 2006. x + 272 pp. index. illus. bibl. £65. ISBN: 0–415–28881–9.

Levy, Allison. Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xx + 194 pp. + 132 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0–7546–5404–4.

Lockey, Brian Christopher. Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 236 pp. index. $85. ISBN: 0–521–85861–5.

Lorandini, Cinzia. Famiglia e impresa: I Salvadori di Trento nei secoli XVII e XVIII. Istituto trentino di cultura. Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento 45. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006. 384 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €25. ISBN: 88–15–10835–1.

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Marin, Louis. Opacité de la peinture: Essais sur la représentation au Quattrocento. L'histoire et ses représentations 6. Paris: Éditions EHESS, 2006. 264 pp. + 90 color pls. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €33. ISBN: 2–7132–2105–6.

McDonald, Russ F. Shakespeare's Late Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 260 pp. index. $85. ISBN: 0–521–82068–5.

Medina, João. Auschwitz e moscovo: O silêncio de deus em Auschwitz. Casal de Cambra: Caleidoscópio Edição e Artes Gráficas, S. A., 2006. 162 pp. illus. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 989–8010–22–3.

Medina, João. Portuguesismo(s): Acerca da Identidade Nacional. Lisbon: Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa, 2006. 544 pp. append. illus. tbls. n.p. ISBN: 972–99298–9–0.

Moore, Cornelia Niekus. Patterned Lives: The Lutheran Funeral Biography in Early Modern Germany. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 3. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. 404 pp. index. illus. bibl. €79. ISBN: 3–447–05429–8.

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Najemy, John M. A History of Florence 1200–1575. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2006. xii + 516 pp. index. illus. map. $50. ISBN: 1–4051–1954–3.

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Ocker, Christopher. Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525–1547: Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas 114. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xx + 338 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $129. ISBN: 90–04–15206–7.

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Pantani, Italo. L'amoroso messer giusto da Valmontone: Un protagonista della lirica italiana del XV secolo. Studi e Saggi 39. Rome: Salerno Editrice S.r.l., 2006. 258 pp. index. append. €21. ISBN: 88–8402–531–1.

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Ravelhofer, Barbara. The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvi + 318 pp. + 3 color pls. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $99. ISBN: 0–19–928659–0.

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Segre, Ada V. The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656–1665: A Manuscript Planting Notebook with a Study, Transcription, and Translation. 2 vols. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 194 pp. append. illus. bibl. $95. ISBN: 0–88402–302–8.

Seward, Desmond. The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2006. 310 pp. + 16 b/w pls. index. illus. tbls. bibl. £20. ISBN: 0–7509–2981–2.

Shepard, Alexandra. Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England. Oxford Studies in Social History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Reprint. xii + 292 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0–19–929934–X.

Silver, Larry A. Hieronymus Bosch. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2006. 424 pp. index. illus. bibl. $135. ISBN: 0–7892–0901–6.

Sinfield, Alan. Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. Accents on Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 2006. xii + 226 pp. index. bibl. $33.95. ISBN: 0–415–40236–0.

Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. The Art of the Goldsmith in Late Fifteenth-Century Germany: The Kimbell Virgin and Her Bishop. Kimbell Art Museum. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 86 pp. illus. map. bibl. $16.95. ISBN: 0–300–11736–1.

Steinemann, Holger. Eine Bildtheorie zwischen Repräsentation und Wirkung: Kardinal Gabriele Paleottis Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre e profane (1582). Studien zur Kunstgeschichte 164. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2006. 518 pp. index. illus. bibl. €48. ISBN: 3–487–12942–6.

Stephens, Walter. Les Géants de Rabelais: folklore, histoire ancienne, nationalisme. Trans. Florian Preisig. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2006. 590 pp. + 14 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. CHF140. ISBN: 2–7453–1399–1.

Stow, Kenneth R. Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters: Continuity in the Catholic-Jewish Encounter. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. 316 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0–8047–5281–8.

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Thimann, Michael. Jean Jacques Boissard: Ovids Metamorphosen 1556. Die Bildhandschrift 79C7 aus dem Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Ikonographische Repertorien zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa 5. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2005. 228 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $82.50. ISBN: 3–7861–2509–0.

Thompson, Peter E. The Triumphant Juan Rana: A Gay Actor of the Spanish Golden Age. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. x + 184 pp. index. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0–8020–8969–0.

Tiffany, Grace. Love's Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance Literature. Cranbury: University of Delaware Press/AUP, 2006. 218 pp. index. bibl. $43.50. ISBN: 0–87413–948–1.

Trevor-Roper, Hugh. Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 438 pp. + 13 b/w pls. index. append. illus. $35. ISBN: 0–300–11263–7.

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van Straten, Roelof. Rembrandts Weg zur Kunst 1606–1632. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2006. 370 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. €39.92. ISBN: 3–496–01343–5.

van Straten, Roelof, and Ingrid Moerman. Young Rembrandt: The Leiden Years, 1606–1632. With contributions by Ingrid Moerman. Trans. R. Quartero. Leiden: Foleor Publishers, 2005. 370 pp. index. illus. bibl. €59.50. ISBN: 90–75035–22–5.

Van Veen, Henk. Cosimo I de' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 266 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0–521–83722–7.

Viennot, Éliane. La France, Les Femmes et Le Pouvoir: L'invention de la loi salique (V^e–XVI^e siècle). Paris: Perrin, 2006. 728 pp. index. bibl. €27. ISBN: 2–262–02061–2.

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Walsham, Alexandra M. Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500–1700. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. xvi + 364 pp. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0–7190–5239.

Wenderholm, Iris. Bild und Berührung: Skulptur und Malerei auf dem Altar der italienischen Frührenaissance. Italienische Forschungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz. I Mandorli 5. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. 304 pp. index. illus. bibl. €58. ISBN: 3–422–06607–6.

Zachman, Randall C. John Calvin As Teacher, Pastor and Theologian: The Shape of His Writings and Thoughts. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006. 278 pp. index. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 0–8010–3129–X.