Renaissance

Harvard canto-by-canto commentary of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata Julianne VanWagenen CANTO X Abstract (click here to read the full essay): Canto 10 of Jerusalem Delivered is a fruitful place to examine Tasso’s sometimes tense and always complex...

by John Varriano University of California Press, 282 pp., $19.50 PETER LIEBERMAN In 1505 the Florentine painter Andrea del Sarto, at a banquet held by the artistic and gastronomic confraternity known as ‘the Company of the Cauldron,’ presented a scale...

a cura di Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà (vol. II a cura di Erminia Irace) Einaudi, 946 pp., ill., 85.00 € MARCO ARESU - Tra geografia e storia “Prometto di non scrivere nessuna storia letteraria, nessun capitolo di storia letteraria, prima di avere...

by Mark Peterson Harvard University Press, 338 pp., $28.95 PETER LIEBERMAN Very often it takes the work of an outsider, with a fresh pair of eyes, to make an original contribution to any academic field—especially a field such as Italian Studies, whose...

by Douglas Biow Stanford University Press, 246 pp., $19.95 DAN TURELLO The ideals of grace and ease were ones that came to find great success and cultural currency during the Renaissance, in great measure thanks to the writing of Baldassarre Castiglione’s...

by Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice Einaudi, 306 pp., ill., € 25.00 ELOISA MORRA “Spesso – scriveva Aby Warburg – “il buon Dio si annida nei dettagli”. Ed è in due dettagli dei quadri sottostanti che è racchiusa la metamorfosi d'uno...