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Volume 58 - Issue 1 - Spring 2005

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Franco Minonzio. Studi gioviani: Scienza, filosofia e letteratura nell’opera di Paolo Giovio. Vol. 1, Raccolta storica pubblicata dalla Società Storica Comense 21; vol. 2, Raccolta storica pubblicata dalla Società Storica Comense 22. Como: Società Storica Comense, 2002. 668 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a.

Steven vanden Broecke. The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology. Medieval and Early Modern Science 4. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xvi + 316 pp. + 12 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $153. ISBN: 90-04-13169-8.

Claudia Brosseder. Im Bann der Sterne: Caspar Peucer, Philipp Melanchthon und andere Wittenberger Astrologen. Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2004. 430 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €64.80. ISBN: 3-05-003853-5.

Franz Daxecker. The Physicist and Astronomer Christopher Scheiner: Biography, Letters, Works. Publications at Innsbruck University 246. Innsbruck: Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Public-Relations Office, 2004. 176 pp. index. illus. bibl. €20. ISBN: ISBN: 3-901249-69-9.

Galileo Galilei. Le mecaniche. Immagini della Ragione 7. Ed. Romano Gatto. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002. ccxvi + 168 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. €28. ISBN: 88-222-5142-3.

Michaela Valente. Johann Wier: Agli albori della critica razionale dell’occulto e del demoniaco nell’Europa del Cinquecento. Studi e testi per la storia religiosa del Cinquecento 12. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. vi + 340 pp. index. tbls. €35. ISBN: 88-222-5193-8.

Frank Lestringant. Sous la leçon des vents: Le monde d’André Thevet, cosmographe de la Renaissance. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003. des vents: Le monde ISBN: 2-84050-292-5.

Ricardo Padrón. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago and London: Cambridge University Press New York, USA, 2004. xvi + 288 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-226-64433-2.

A. R. T. Jonkers. Earth’s Magnetism in the Age of Sail. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvii + 300 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. gloss. chron. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8018-7132-8.

Jerry Brotton. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 243 pp. + 8 color pls. $30 (cl), $14.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-19-280268-2 (cl), 0-19-280265-8 (pbk).

Timothy J. Reiss. Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xxi + 608 pp. index. illus. bibl. $70. ISBN: 0-8047-4565-X.

J. R. Goldring, and Elizabeth Mulryne, eds. Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xxiv + 401 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0628-7.

Martin Gosman, Alasdair Macdonald, and Arjo J. Vanderjagt, eds. Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650. Vol. 1. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 118. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. xii + 376 pp. + 9 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $105. ISBN: 90-04-13572-3.

Reinier Leushuis. Le Mariage et l’‘amitié courtoise’ dans le dialogue et le récit bref de la Renaissance. Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum Serie 1: Storia — Letteratura — Paleografia 306. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. xiv + 285 pp. index. €28. ISBN: 88-222-5241-1.

Julia Crick and Alexandra M. Walsham, eds. The Uses of Script and Print, 1300–1700. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 298 pp. index. illus. $70. ISBN: 0-521-81063-9.

Alessandra Petrina. Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 124. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. xii + 382 pp. index. illus. bibl. $130. ISBN: 90-04-13713-0.

Alfred Hiatt. The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England. The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xiv + 226 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-8020-89518.

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