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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - Contents: Studies -- �The Horseshoe Nail�: Structure and Contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Gene A. Brucker -- Language and History in the Reformation: Cranmer, Gardiner, and the Words of Institution by Judith H. Anderson -- �The Light of Printing�: William Tyndale, John Foxe, John Day, and Early Modern Print Culture by John N. King -- John Foxe and the Jews by Sharon Achinstein -- �The Meruailouse Site�: Shakespeare, Venice, and Paradoxical Stages by Peter G. Platt -- The Renaissance Beard: Masculinity in Early Modern England by Will Fisher -- Author and Authenticity in Conring�s New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor. A Seventeenth-Century Case Study by Constantin Fasolt -- Review Essays -- History of the Book: An Undisciplined Discipline? by Cyndia Susan Clegg -- Erasmus: Recent Critical Editions and Translations by Albert Rabil -- The State of Giordano Bruno Studies at the End of the Four-Hundredth Centenary of the Philosopher�s Death by Hilary Gatti -- Studies -- Death and the Cardinal: The Two Bodies of Guillaume d�Estouteville by Meredith J. Gill -- Elections of Abbesses and Notions of Identity in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy, with Special Reference to Venice by Kate Lowe -- Nuns and Their Art: The Case of San Zaccaria in Renaissance Venice by Gary M. Radke -- Assumed Simplicity and the Critique of Nobility: Or, How Castiglione Read Cicero by Jennifer Richards -- Ariosto and the �Fier Pastor�: Form and History in Orlando Furioso by Albert Russell Ascoli -- Tasso�s Enchantress, Tassos Captive Woman by Melinda J. Gough -- English Accounts of Captivity in North Africa and the Middle East: 1577-1625 by Nabil Matar -- Review Essay -- Painting and Sculpture for the Tuscan Household by Robert J. H. Janson-La Palme -- Studies -- (Re)visiting D�e-. Maurice Sc� and Marian Poetry by G�rd Defaux -- Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of Dufay�s Nuper Rosarum Flores and the Cathedral of Florence by Marvin Trachtenberg -- Tyard�s Graphic Metamorphoses: Figuring the Semiosic Drift in the Douze Fables de fleuves ou fontaines by Roberto E. Campo -- Female Complaintes-. Laments of Venus, Queens, and City Women in Late Sixteenth-Century France by Kate van Orden -- �Deaf as Ulysses to the Siren�s Song�: The Story of a Forgotten Topos by Harry Vredeveld -- Guido Casoni on Love as Music, A Theme �for All Ages and Studies� by Don Harran -- Review Essay -- Humanism in Practice, Influence, and Oblivion by Albert Rabil -- Studies -- The Modality of Moral Communication in the Decameron�s First Day, in Contrast to the Mirror of the Exemplum by Timothy Kircher -- Performing for Strangers: Women, Dance, and Music in Quattrocento Florence by Judith Bryce -- �Tout Mon Office:� Body Politics and Family Dynamics in the verse and epitres of Marguerite de Navarre by Leah Middlebrook -- �Fiery Toungues:� Language, Liturgy, and the Paradox of the English Reformation by Timothy Rosendale -- Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: The Account of Anne Askew in Foxe�s �Book of Martyrs� by Thomas S. Freeman and Sarah Elizabeth Wall -- �Your Dove-Eyes among your Hairlocks:� Language and Authority in Fray Luis de Leon�s Respuesta que Desde su Prisi�a a sus �ulos Luis by M. Gir�egr�- Sport, War, and Contest in Shakespeare�s Henry VI by Gregory M. Col�emenza -- George Herbert's Sacramental Puritanism -- Robert Whalen -- Studies -- Competing Visions of the State and Social Welfare: The Medici Dukes, the Bigallo Magistrates, and Local Hospitals in Sixteenth- Century Tuscany by Nicholas Terpstra -- Nuns, Images, and the Ideals of Women�s Monasticism: Two Paintings from the Cistercian Convent of Flines by Andrea G. Pearson -- Labyrinth Dances in the French and English Renaissance by Thomas M. Greene -- Whose Saint Crispin�s Day Is It?: Shoemaking, Holiday Making, and the Politics of Memory in Early Modern England by Alison A. Chapman -- Authorship and the Royal "I:" King James VI/I and the Politics of Monarchic Verse by Peter C. Herman -- Marked Angels: Counterfeits, Commodities, and The Roaring Girl by Valerie Forman -- Review Essays -- The Complex Nature of Catholicism in the Renaissance by Francesco C. Cesareo -- New Resources for Emblem Studies by Sandra Sider -- Reviews.