[1 vol. in 2 iss.] Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. 48.

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 -- Circular Definitions: Configuring Gender in Italian Renaissance Festival, by Deanna Shemek -- The Rise and Fall of Goritz�s Feasts, by Julia Haig Gaisser -- Palm Sunday Prophets and Processions and Eucharistic Controversy, by Mary C. Erler -- From Mascarade to Tragedy: The Rhetoric of Apologia in Jodelle�s Recueil des inscriptions, by Fran�s Cornilliat -- Contentious Readings: Urban Humanism and Gender Difference in La Puce de Madame Des-Roches (1582), by Ann Rosalind Jones -- Special Review Essay -- Rabelais, Renaissance, and Reformation: Recent French Works on the Renaissance, by Zachary Sayre Schiffman -- Reviews -- Studies -- Impassioned Mother or Passive Icon: The Virgin�s Role in Late Medieval and Early Modern Passion Sermons, by Donna Spivey Ellington -- Breaking the Silence: The Poor Clares and the Visual Arts in Fifteenth-Century Italy, by Jeryldene M. Wood -- Marguerite de Navarre and the Androgynous Portrait of Fran�s 1er, by Barbara Hochstetler Meyer-- Making Pictures Speak: Renaissance Art, Elizabethan Literature, Modern Scholarship, by Leonard Barkan -- Special Review Essay -- Interpretations of the Renaissance in Spanish Historical Thought, by Ottavio Di Camillo -- Reviews -- Studies -- Marriages are Made in Heaven: Marriage and the Individual in the Roman Jewish Ghetto, by Kenneth R. Stow -- The Power to Decide: Battered Wires in Early Modern Venice, by Joanne M. Ferraro -- The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice, by Virginia Cox -- The Adaptation of a Shakespearean Genre: Othello and Ford�s �Tis Pity She�s a Whore, by Raymond Powell -- Special Review Essay -- Recent Italian Scholarship on the Renaissance: Aspects of Christianity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy, by John Martin -- Reviews -- Studies -- Abacus and Humanism, by Ingrid D. Rowland -- Inertia and Scientific Law in Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Lucretius, by William L. Hine -- Rabelais�s Unreadable Books, by Barbara C. Bowen -- Gendered Style in Italian Art Criticism from Michelangelo to Malvasia, by Philip Sohm -- Giordano Bruno and the Stuart Court Masques, by Hilary Gatti -- Special Review Essay -- Turning New Leaves: Renaissance Studies in Germany, 1995, by Susan C. Karant-Nunn -- Reviews.