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Volume 78 - Spring 2025

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Dante’s “Other Works”: Assessments and Interpretations. Zygmunt G. Baranski and Theodore J. Cachey Jr., eds. William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature 20. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. xviii + 456 pp. $125.
Mary Watt
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18 June 2025, pp. 302-304
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Le Principe de plaisir: Esthétique, savoirs et politique dans la Florence des Médicis (XVIe–XVIIe siècle). Déborah Blocker. Essais 38. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2022. 694 pp. €35.
Maria Sole Costanzo
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18 June 2025, pp. 304-305
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“Queste spaziose loggie”: Architettura e poetica nella tragedia italiana del Cinquecento. Corrado Confalonieri. Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2022. 255 pp. €20.50.
James Grantham Turner
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18 June 2025, pp. 306-307
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Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy. Eugenio Refini. Italian Perspectives 48. Oxford: Legenda, 2023. xiii + 242 pp. $115.
Anthony Presti Russell
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18 June 2025, pp. 307-309
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The Reception of Vergil in Renaissance Rome. Jeffrey A. Glodzik. Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 27. Leiden: Brill, 2023. vii + 154 pp. $114.
Jack Hayes
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18 June 2025, pp. 309-311
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Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia. Henry Berlin. Toronto Iberic 59. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. x + 324 pp. $75.
Donald W. Wood
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18 June 2025, pp. 311-313
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Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain’s Golden Age: A Measure for Measure. Richard Rabone. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xii + 308 pp. $100.
Dale Shuger
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18 June 2025, pp. 313-315
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Mujer y sociedad en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Francisco Domínguez Matito, Juan Manuel Escudero Baztán, and Rebeca Lázaro Niso, eds. Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica 137. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2020. 328 pp. €44.
Alexander Davis
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18 June 2025, pp. 315-316
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Protecting the Spanish Woman: Gender Identity and Empowerment in María de Zayas’s Works. Xabier Granja Ibarreche. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2023. xv + 264 pp. $65.
Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar
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18 June 2025, pp. 317-318
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The War Trumpet: Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543–1639. Emiro Martínez-Osorio and Mercedes Blanco, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 400 pp. $85.
David M. Reher
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18 June 2025, pp. 318-320
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Poètiques de l’amour: Sexualité, genre, pouvoir XIe–XVe siècle. Joël Blanchard. Paris: Passés/Composés, 2022. 334 pp. €22.
Frédérique Marty
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18 June 2025, pp. 320-322
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Voir le Théâtre: Théories Aristotéliciennes et Pratiques du Spectacle. Guillaume Navaud. L’esprit des signes 12. Milan: Editions Mimesis, 2021. 336 pp. €22.
Owen Staley
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18 June 2025, pp. 322-324
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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence. Jonathan Sawday. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 574 pp. $45.
Benjamin Djain
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18 June 2025, pp. 324-325
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Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print. Jessica Rosenberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. xviii + 574 pp. $45.
Stephanie Shirilan
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18 June 2025, pp. 326-327
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John Trevisa’s Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400. Emily Steiner. Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 288 pp. $80.
Chloe R. Brooke
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18 June 2025, pp. 328-329
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Locating Milton: Places and Perspectives. Thomas Festa and David Ainsworth, eds. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021. x + 232 pp. £90.
Elizabeth A. Weckhurst
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18 June 2025, pp. 329-331
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Milton’s Late Poems: Forms of Modernity. Lee Morrissey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xi + 182 pp. £75.
Hannah Crawforth
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18 June 2025, pp. 331-333
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Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England. Myra Seaman. Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. xii + 284 pp. £80.
Martha W. Driver
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18 June 2025, pp. 333-334
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Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama: The Limits of Toleration. Kilian Schindler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xi + 274 pp. £85.
Scott Venters
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18 June 2025, pp. 335-336
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Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England. Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 316 pp. $110.
Lauren Shohet
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18 June 2025, pp. 336-338
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Dante’s “Other Works”: Assessments and Interpretations. Zygmunt G. Baranski and Theodore J. Cachey Jr., eds. William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature 20. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. xviii + 456 pp. $125.

Le Principe de plaisir: Esthétique, savoirs et politique dans la Florence des Médicis (XVIe–XVIIe siècle). Déborah Blocker. Essais 38. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2022. 694 pp. €35.

“Queste spaziose loggie”: Architettura e poetica nella tragedia italiana del Cinquecento. Corrado Confalonieri. Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2022. 255 pp. €20.50.

Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy. Eugenio Refini. Italian Perspectives 48. Oxford: Legenda, 2023. xiii + 242 pp. $115.

The Reception of Vergil in Renaissance Rome. Jeffrey A. Glodzik. Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 27. Leiden: Brill, 2023. vii + 154 pp. $114.

Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia. Henry Berlin. Toronto Iberic 59. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. x + 324 pp. $75.

Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain’s Golden Age: A Measure for Measure. Richard Rabone. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xii + 308 pp. $100.

Mujer y sociedad en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Francisco Domínguez Matito, Juan Manuel Escudero Baztán, and Rebeca Lázaro Niso, eds. Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica 137. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2020. 328 pp. €44.

Protecting the Spanish Woman: Gender Identity and Empowerment in María de Zayas’s Works. Xabier Granja Ibarreche. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2023. xv + 264 pp. $65.

The War Trumpet: Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543–1639. Emiro Martínez-Osorio and Mercedes Blanco, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 400 pp. $85.

Poètiques de l’amour: Sexualité, genre, pouvoir XIe–XVe siècle. Joël Blanchard. Paris: Passés/Composés, 2022. 334 pp. €22.

Voir le Théâtre: Théories Aristotéliciennes et Pratiques du Spectacle. Guillaume Navaud. L’esprit des signes 12. Milan: Editions Mimesis, 2021. 336 pp. €22.

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence. Jonathan Sawday. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xviii + 574 pp. $45.

Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print. Jessica Rosenberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. xviii + 574 pp. $45.

John Trevisa’s Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400. Emily Steiner. Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xii + 288 pp. $80.

Locating Milton: Places and Perspectives. Thomas Festa and David Ainsworth, eds. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2021. x + 232 pp. £90.

Milton’s Late Poems: Forms of Modernity. Lee Morrissey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xi + 182 pp. £75.

Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England. Myra Seaman. Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. xii + 284 pp. £80.

Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama: The Limits of Toleration. Kilian Schindler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xi + 274 pp. £85.

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England. Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiv + 316 pp. $110.

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