[1 vol. in 2 iss.] Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. 49.

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 -- Elysium: A Prelude to Renaissance Theatre by Meg Licht -- The Dreamer�s Path: Descartes and the Sixteenth Century by Michael H. Keefer -- Sons and Mothers: Agrippina, Semiramis, and the Philological Construction of Gender Roles in Early Modern Germany (Lohenstein�s Agrippina, 1665) by Jane O. Newman -- Review Essay -- Dimensions of Individuality: Recent French Works on the Renaissance by Zachary Sayre Schiffman -- Reviews -- Studies -- Cyriacus of Ancona and the Revival of Two Forgotten Ancient Personifications in the Rector�s Palace of Dubrovnik by Stanko Kokole -- �Concludo che non vidi mai la pi� bella casa in Italia�: The Frescoed Decorations in Francesco II Gonzaga�s Suburban Villa in the Mantuan Countryside at Gonzaga (1491-1496) by Clifford M. Brown with Anna Maria Lorenzoni -- An Exemplary Humanist Hybrid: Vasari�s �Fraude� with Reference to Bronzino�s �Sphinx� by John F. Moffitt -- Sovereign Counterfeits: The Trial of the Pyx Simon Wortham -- Special Review Essay -- Interpretations of the Renaissance in Spanish Historical Thought: The Last Thirty Years by Ottavio Di Camillo -- Reviews -- Studies -- Art and Humanism in Early Renaissance Padua: Cennini, Vergerio and Petrarch on Imitation by Andrea Bolland -- Florence, 1492: the Reappearance of Plotinus by Henri D. Saffrey -- Women in the Book Trade in Italy, 1475-1620 by Deborah Parker -- Erasmus and the Hermeneutics of Linguistic Praxis by Mary Jane Barnett -- Milton on Machiavelli: Representations of the State in Paradise Lost by Barbara Riebling -- Special Review Essay -- Knowledge, Politics, and Memory in Early Modern Italy: Recent Italian Scholarship by John Martin -- Reviews -- Studies -- Shows in the Showstone: A Theatre of Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Angel Conversations of John Dee (1527-1608/9) by Deborah E. Harkness -- Possessed by the Devil? A Very Public Dispute in Utrecht by Benjamin J. Kaplan -- Johann Valentin Andrae�s Utopian Brotherhoods by Donald R. Dickson -- �By Lucan Driv�n About�: A Jonsonian Marvell�s Lucanic Milton by Andrew Shifflett -- Preserving Property: History, Genealogy, and Inheritance in �Upon Appleton House� by Brian Patton -- Special Review Essay -- Navigating Currents: Renaissance Studies in Germany Today by Susan C. Karant-Nunn -- Reviews.