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...Nina Lamal Young Italian men joined the Habsburg army in the Low Countries to gain military experience. In pursuit of social advancement, many of these soldiers sought to maintain ties and contacts with their hometowns. Letters were the principal medium for soldiers to establish such a long...

... acquired humanist education by quoting from ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, and Italian, often on the theme of everlasting friendship. This essay looks closely at one album, owned by a German student attending law school at the University of Padua from...

... Romae (1494). Composed in the popular cantare verse form, which was strongly associated with public performance, these works are an unusual example of printed guides to Rome aimed specifically at an Italian audience. Situating Dati’s cantari within the broader culture of the Roman pilgrimage...

... sociability in sixteenth-century Italy. To this end, understanding the social and cultural context within which Italian men grew and cared for their beards during the period will help explain the meaning of a unique feature of Bruno's play, while examining Bruno's play will in its turn help dramatize more...

... the southern Italian Gesta Francorum depicts Muslim conversion at Antioch in terms of an alliance between Christian and Muslim warriors, subsequent Latin histories minimize such cooperation, bringing the account of the siege into the more readily accepted polarized view of the relation between Islam...

...Sabrina Corbellini; Margriet Hoogvliet This essay investigates how a specific group of laypeople, individuals and groups of literate artisans in late medieval French and Italian towns, participated in distinctive ways in contemporary devotional reading culture. Through an analysis of colophons...

...Nicholas Terpstra The theatrical capital punishments of the early modern period blurred distinctions between private and public and between object and subject in their treatment of the prisoner’s body. Where did these rituals originate? Italian confraternities devised distinctive forms of offering...

... on the Continent, the essay probes the causal links between mental anguish, suicide, and forced professions. Despite challenges in quantifying convent suicide cases, it is clear that suicidal behaviors were not uncommon in Italian convents. Much was at stake from both a social and salvific standpoint when a “bride...

... of De humani corporis fabrica . This essay focuses on the implications of Vesalius’s and his followers’ anatomical discoveries for the practice and professional status of early modern Italian midwives. In particular, the essay focuses on three venues in which the authority to understand the female body...

...Cynthia Klestinec This essay describes the reception of Vesalius’s illustrations of skeletons in Latin and Italian surgery texts in the sixteenth century. The skeletons were part of a visual archive that was produced collaboratively by humanists, editors, translators, and printers. Joining older...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Giuliano Mori Leonardo Bruni’s Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum has long been studied as a manifesto of the humanist divergence from medieval culture. This article reconsiders the role of Bruni’s Dialogi in the development of Italian humanism and especially...

... the work straight into the problematic inheritance of Galfridian history, recently discredited at Henry VIII's court by the Italian humanist Polydore Vergil. Elyot presents, only to dismiss, medieval legendary origins for Albion and Britain, using what he calls similitudo to find alternative explanations...

... is Spanish; Catherine is Florentine), but the author describes Catherine’s supe- rior capacity for evil as the sixteenth-century equivalent of a genetic trait: “Both of the two were foreigners who felt neither affection nor friendship for the kingdom. Now the Italian trumps the Spaniard, and the Floren...

...; and the cardinal's cordiality was no more. What remained in 1351 was the idea, or the illusion, of Rome. 13 Neither papal and French, nor imperial and German, nor Italian and discredited like Rienzo, it was nurtured by the same nostalgia with which Petrarch preferred to recall his broken bond with Giovanni...

... Sansovino’s denunciation of the muddling of Italian character through the imitation of the dress of foreign others: We . . . see that a majority of Italians, forgetting that they were born in Italy and following northern fashions [instead], have changed their habits of thought...

...: SISMEL: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010. vi, 392 pp. Paper eur 51.00. [Latin text with facing-­page Italian translation.] Dalby, Andrew, trans. and ed. Geoponika: Farm Work; A Modern Transla- tion of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook. Totnes, Devon: Pros- pect Books, 2011. 368 pp. ₤30.00. Dante...

.... $80.00. Dante Alighieri. Inferno. Translated by Stanley Lombardo. Introduction by Steven Botterill. Notes by Anthony Oldcorn. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub- lishing, 2009. xlvii, 436 pp. $39.95, paper $12.95. [Facing-page Italian text and English verse translation.] De Crenne, Hélisenne. Les Épîtres...

... New York University New York, New York Gabriella Zarri has called the literary dialogue Il merito delle donne, by the Venetian upperclasswoman Moderata Fonte, an early example of Italian feminism.1 Generally acknowledged as written by Fonte shortly before she...