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Lord Herbert of Chirbury
Pagan Religion (De religione gentilium)
Ed. John Butler
$45.00 hardcover 1-895537-21-5

Not to be overlooked! An encyclopedic treatise on the ancient Near-Eastern and Mediterranean deities, including those of the Greeks and Romans, in the best early 17th-century tradition. Herbert’s goal was to deduce from their rites and cults the common principles of religion. Essential for students of English prose, philosophy, history, classics and early religions. (379 pp)

Petrarch’s Triumphs
Ed. K. Eisenbichler & A. Ianucci
$30.00 paperback 0-919473-69-5

Twenty-eight articles dealing with this seminal work in its European context as pageantry, a fusion of the sacred and profane, as rhetoric, as a paradigm for imitation and translation, and in its relationship to drama, entries and the figurative arts. (420 pp)

Love and Death in the Renaissance
Ed. K. Bartlett, K. Eisenbichler, J. Liedl
$19.00 paperback 0-919473-95-4
$28.50 hardcover 0-919473-94-6

Thirteen articles dealing with Renaissance ideas about love and death: in Cervantes, André Dulaurens in relation to melancholy, Ficino, Spenser and the “Garden of Adonis,” Antony and Cleopatra, Montaigne and Mercury, Juan Luis Vives and the Instruction of a Christian Woman, Castiglione and the courtier, Petrarch’s Canzoniere, Melusine and Dr. Faustus, and La Navire of Marguerite de Navarre. (220 pp)

Eros and Anteros: The Medical Traditions of Love in the Renaissance
Ed. Don Beecher & M. Ciavolella
$19.00 paperback 1-89553708-8
$28.50 hardcover 1-89553709-6

Fourteen articles by leading scholars on such topics as love philters and magic, lovesickness and the demonologists, love as a disease of the imagination, Valla on the senses and pleasure, it hereos, Mario Equicola, Della Porta and erotic images, a history of jealousy, love and sex in The City of the Sun, Eros and misogyny in Marino and Pallavicino, eroticism in Shakespeare’s sonnets, and love melancholy in Robert Burton. (232 pp)

Saturn from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Ed. M. Ciavolella & A. Ianucci
$19.00 paperback 1-89553700-2
$28.50 hardcover 1-89553701-0

Ten essays covering the topic from the golden age to the Saturnalia, through Dante and the Libro de buen amor, to Saturn in Lefevre and Caxton, the paintings of Bronzino and the plays of Lope de Vega. (181 pp)

Matteo Maria Boiardo
The Lyric Poems (Amorum Libri)
Ed. Andrea di Tomasso
$45.00 hardcover 1-89553710-X

This handsome clothbound book contains facing-page, Italian-English versions of the 150 sonnets, and the 30 canzoni and madrigals of Boiardo, with a full introduction and bibliography— a definitive edition. (300 pp)

The Science of Buffoonery: Theory and History of the Commedia dell’Arte
Ed. Domenico Pietropaolo
$30.00 paperback 0-919473-67-9

This is a collection of 20 essays (16 English, 1 French, 3 Italian), exploring textual segmentation, doubling, improvisation, the relation of the Commedia dell’Arte to adjacent genres, its role in the development of national theatrical traditions, and its revival in recent times. (310 pp)

Lectura Marini
Ed. Francesco Guardiani
$30.00 paperback 0-919473-64-4

Twenty articles in Italian by established Marino scholars take up the Adone canto by canto. Through a rich diversity of critical approache4s, the complex and multiple dimensions of this Baroque masterpiece are brought to light. The book is an experimental approach to criticism through the interplay of ideas around a single text. Essential reading for Marino scholars. (347 pp)

Domenico Pietropaolo
Dante Studies in the Age of Vico
$30.00 paperback 0-919473-91-1

A close study of Dante criticism and reception in the 18th century, a period usually considered to be indifferent to his thought and hostile to his fame. Pietropaolo seeks to invalidate this view by using a much broader corpus of materials, much of it drawn from rare editions and manuscripts of the period. (400 pp)