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Minna Skafte Jensen. Friendship and Poetry: Studies in Danish Neo-Latin Literature. Eds. Marianne Pade, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, and Peter Zeeberg. Renaessancestudier 12. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. 273 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $46. ISBN: 87-7289-961-1.

Alan C. Shepard and Stephen D. Powell, eds. Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Essays and Studies 5 Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004. xii + 306 pp. index. $37. ISBN: 0-7727-2025-8.

John F. Moffitt. Inspiration: Bacchus and the Cultural History of a Creation Myth. Philosophy of History and Culture 22. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. xii + 383 pp. + 26 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $190. ISBN: 90-04-14279-7.

Anja Wolkenhauer. Zu schwer für Apoll: Die Antike in humanistischen Druckerzeichen des 16. Jahrhunderts. Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesens 35. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002. 451 pp. index. illus. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 3-447-04717-8.

Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürers Marienleben: Form, Gehalt, Funktion und sozialhistorischer Ort. Gratia: Bamberger Schriften zur Renaissanceforschung 42. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004. 400 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. €48. ISBN: 3-447-05013-6.

Arianne Faber Kolb. Jan Brueghel the Elder: The Entry of the Animals into Noah’s Ark. Getty Museum Studies on Art. Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2005. 98 pp. index. illus. $19.95. ISBN: 0-89236-770-9.

Dana Bentley-Cranch The Renaissance Portrait in France and England: A Comparative Study. La Renaissance Française 11. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2004 271 pp. + 78 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. €29. ISBN: 2-7453-0931-5.

Giordano Bruno. Opere mnemotecniche. Eds. Marco Matteoli, Rita Sturlese, and Nicoletta Tirinnanzi. Vol. 1. Classici 71. Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2004. xcviii + 840 pp. index. illus. bibl. €80. ISBN: 88-459-1924-2.

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Arielle Saiber. Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xvi + 183 pp. index. illus. bibl. $79.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3321-7.

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Paola Zambelli. Magia bianca magia nera nel Rinascimento. L’interprete. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2004. 222 pp. index. append. bibl. €14 ISBN: 88-8063-430-5.

Claire Preston. Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 250 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-521-83794-4.

Domenico Laurenza. La ricerca dell’armonia: Rappresentazioni anatomiche nel Rinascimento. Biblioteca di “nuncius,” studi e testi 47. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003. x + 142 pp. + 81 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. €19. ISBN: 88-222-5266-7.

Wolfgang Lefèvre, ed. Picturing Machines 1400–1700. Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2004. vi + 354 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-262-12269 -3.

Gisela Engel and Nicole C. Karafyllis, eds. Technik in der frühen Neuzeit: Schrittmacher der europäischen Moderne. Zeitsprünge: Forschungen zur frühen Neuzeit 8. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2004. 484 pp. illus. €16. ISBN: 3-465-03341-8.

Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi + 346 pp. index. illus. $55. ISBN: 0-8122-3827-3.

Eric H. Ash. Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 265 pp. index. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8018-7992-2.

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