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Volume 59 - Issue 4 - Winter 2006

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John Farrell. Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. x + 342 pp. index. $35. ISBN: 0-8014-4410-4.

Carla Freccero. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 182 pp. index. bibl. $74.95. (cl), $21.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8223-3678-2 (cl), 0-8223-3690-1 (pbk).

Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon, eds. The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxviii + 396 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-19-517029-6.

Patricia Phillippy. Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x + 258 pp. index. illus. bibl. $52. ISBN: 0-8018-8225-7.

Nancy Bradley Warren. Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380–1600. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 264 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-8122-3892-3.

Stephen Turnbull. The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War. London: Greenhill Books, 2006. 272 pp. index. map. chron. illus. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 1-85367-676-4.

Alexandre Tarrête, ed. Stoïcisme et Christianisme à la Renaissance. Cahiers V. L. Saulnier 23. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2006. 244. pp. index. bibl. €24. ISBN: 2-7288-0354-4.

Angela Nuovo and Christian Coppens. I Giolito e la stampa nell’Italia del XVI secolo. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 402. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2005. 634 pp. + 78 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF 220. ISBN: 2-600-01001-7.

Gerhard F. Strasser and Mara R. Wade, eds. Die Domänen des Emblems: Außerliterarische Anwendungen der Emblematik. Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreis für Barockforschung 39. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz Verlag, 2004. 308 pp. index. illus. €74. ISBN: 3-447-05066 -7.

Laurence Grove. Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture: Emblems and Comic Strips. Studies in European Cultural Transition 32. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv + 188 pp. + 52 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3488-4.

Marco Ruffini. Le imprese del drago: Politica, emblematica e scienze naturali alla corte di Gregorio XIII (1572–1585). Europa delle Corti 118. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2005. 166 pp. index. illus. map. €15. ISBN: 88-7870-065-7.

Danielle Jacquart and Charles Burnett, eds. Scientia in Margine: Études sur les Marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance. Hautes Études médiévales et modernes 88. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 404 pp. index. illus. tbls. CHF 72. ISBN: 2-600-01035-1.

Giovan Filippo Ingrassia. Informatione del pestifero et contagioso morbo. Filosofia e Scienza nell’Età Moderna. Ed. Luigi Ingaliso. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2005. 650 pp. index. illus. €45. ISBN: 88-464-7290-X.

Brian W. Ogilvie. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvi + 386 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-226-62087-5.

Leonardo Garzoni. Trattati della Calamita. Filosofia e scienza nell’eta moderna. Ed. Monica Ugaglia. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2005. 352 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. €33. ISBN: 88-464-7132-6.

Maria Pia Ellero. Lo Specchio della Fantasia: Retorica, Magia e Scrittura in Giordano Bruno. Collana di studi e testi Rinascimentali 7. Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, 2005. 168 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €15. ISBN: 88-7246-665-2.

Saul Fisher. Pierre Gassendi’s Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 131. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. 436 pp. index. bibl. $172.50. ISBN: 90-04-11996-5.

Thomas Holden. The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 306 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $74. ISBN: 0-19-926326-4.

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