"Già mai non mi conforto": A Reexamination

Article | Contributor(s): Marilyn Migiel

"Good Works are Detrimental to Salvation": Amsdorf's Use of Luther's Words in Controversy

Article | Contributor(s): Robert Kolb

"He took his religion by trust": The Matter of Ben Jonson's Conversion

Article | Contributor(s): James P. Crowley

During his imprisonment for the murder of Gabriel Spencer in 1598, Ben Jonson converted to the outlawed Roman Catholic Church, and for the next 12 years made no attempt to conceal his recusant status. Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...

"I don't know whether I'm dreaming now, or if I dreamed what I'm about to tell you": Filippo Brunelleschi and the Perspectives of Sleep in the novella of the Fat Woodcarver

Article | Contributor(s): Lorenzo Bartoli

"In tristitia hilaris in hilaritate tristis": armonia nei contrasti

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Sanguineti White

"Inter inextricabiles... difficultatum tenebras": Ficino's Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity

Article | Contributor(s): Michael Keefer

After reviewing the evidence that Descartes' philosophical itinerary was to a significant degree shaped by a reading of the Hermetic writings translated by Ficino, this article proposes that, in the Cartesian and Hermetic texts alike, the body from which an emergent autonomous subjectivity seeks...

"Is Abbot Isidore also among the Prophets?": Protestant Influences upon the Annotated Bible of Isidore Clarius

Article | Contributor(s): R. Gerald Hobbs

This paper attempts to recognize the important role played by Isidore Clarius in the reform of the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century. In his preface, prolegomena and notes to the Bible, Clarius provided a form of pre-Tridentine Biblical scholarship which enjoyed more affinities with evangelical...

"It cannot be decernit quha are clean and quha are foulle." Responses to Epidemic Disease in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Article | Contributor(s): Richard D. Oram

En comparaison avec la recherche effectuée en Angleterre et sur le continent européen, la recherche sur l'impact en Écosse des épidémies sur l'économie, la société et la culture du XVIe siècle et du début du XVIIe siècle, n'a pas avancé significativement depuis les années 60. En effet, les...

"L'emme del vocabol quinto": Allegory of Language, History, and Literature in Dante's Paradiso 18

Article | Contributor(s): Federica Brunori Deigan, Elisa Liberatori Prati

"L'Histoire tragique au service du Prince": Un sens politique de la Trilogie de Des Masures?

Article | Contributor(s): M. Vernet

"L'urne de' forti": Foscolo's Sepulchral Archaeology

Article | Contributor(s): Carolyn Springer

"La Philosophie n'est qu'une poësie sophistiquée": The Role of Metaphor in Montaigne’s Essais

Article | Contributor(s): Paula Koppisch

"Loüer celluy qui demeure là-haut": la forme de l'hymne ronsardien

Article | Contributor(s): Jean Céard

"Love's sweetest part, variety": Petrarch and the Curious Frame of the Renaissance Sonnet Sequence

Article | Contributor(s): Germaine Warkentin

"Not as Enemies, but as Friends": Sanctioned Sex in Frate Cherubino's Regola della vita matrimoniale

Article | Contributor(s): Amyrose McCue Gill

During the 1470s, a Franciscan preacher named Cherubino composed a short treatise in nine parts entitled Regola della vita matrimoniale (Rule for Married Life), which describes in detail the mutual obligations of an ideal married couple. In this didactic work, Cherubino echoes the vocabulary of...

"Now is hell landed here upon the earth": Renaissance Poverty and Witchcraft in Thomas Middleton's The Black Book

Article | Contributor(s): Molly Hand

En 1604, le pamphlet The Black Book de Thomas Middleton a été publié en deux éditions à Londres. Middleton y répond au Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592) de Thomas Nashe et au The Black Booke's Messenger (1592) de Robert Greene, dans le cadre du débat concernant le Londres...

"Only your picture in my mind": the image, the heart, and the mirror in some seventeenth-century poems

Article | Contributor(s): Dosia Reichardt

La subjectivité aux débuts des temps modernes demeure un thème d'un grand intérêt. Toutefois, les « poèmes au miroir » de Cavalier, caractérisés par l'inversion étrange qu'il fait subir à la logique usuelle de la louange propre au lyrisme amoureux, ont été particulièrement négligés. Cet article...

"Or udirete, che Dio vi conduca". Considerazioni sulla Spagna in rima

Article | Contributor(s): Paolo Fasoli

"Piangene ancor la trista Cleopatra"

Article | Contributor(s): Giorgio Brugnoli

"Quant'è bella giovinezza: Youth and the Medici in Later Quattrocento Florence."

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico Angelo Zanrè