Books received

Renaissance Quarterly, Spring, 2007

EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:

Bideaux, Michel, ed., and Herberay des Essarts, trans. Amadis de Gaule. Book 1. Textes de la Renaissance 116. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 706 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. [euro]63. ISBN: 2-7453-1422-X.

Cardano, Girolamo. Liber de ludo aleae. Filosofia e scienza nell'eta moderna. Ed. Massimo Tamborini. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006. 240 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]21. ISBN: 88-464-8049-X.

Clegg, Cyndia Susan, and Randall McLeod, eds. "The peaceable and prosperous regiment of blessed Queene Elisabeth": A Facsimile from Holinshed's Chronicles (1587). San Marino: Huntington Library Press, 2005. viii 570 pp. illus. tbls. $325. ISBN: 0-87328-161-6.

Du Bellay, Joachim. "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language". A Bilingual Edition. Ed. and trans. Richard Helgerson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xvi 442 pp. index. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-8122-3941-5.

Du Guillet, Pernette. Rymes (1545). Textes Litteraires Francais 583. Ed. Elise Rajchenbach. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 296 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. [euro]41.64. ISBN: 2-600-01063-7.

Fonte, Moderata. Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Valeria Finucci. Trans. Julia M. Kisacky. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxx 494 pp. index. append. bibl. $75 (cl), $29 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-25677-4 (cl), 0-226-25678-2 (pbk).

Garnier, Jean. Institution de la langue francaise. Institutio Gallicae linguae (1558). Texte latin original. Textes de la Renaissance 98. Trans. Alain Culliere. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. xl 105 pp. 158 pp. index. tbls. [euro]56. 2-745-31321-5.

Higman, Francis, and Olivier Millet, eds. Trois Libelles Anonymes Edites, avec introduction et notes. Textes Litteraires Francais. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 126 pp. gloss. bibl. CHF30. ISBN: 2-600-01109-9.

Lucinge, Rene de. Lettres de 1588: Un monde renverse. Textes Litteraires Francais. Ed. James J. Supple. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 448 pp. index. append. [euro]64.06. ISBN: 2-600-01039-4.

Panofsky, Erwin. Korrespondenz 1950 bis 1956. Vol. 3 of Korrespondenz 1910 bis 1968. Ed. Dieter Wuttke. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. xxxvi 1382 pp. index. append. illus. chron. bibl. [euro]180. ISBN: 3-447-05373-9.

Paulmier, Abbe Jean. Memoires touchant l'etablissement d'une mission chrestienne dans le troisieme monde: Autrement appele, La Terr Australe, Meridionale, Antartique, & Inconnue. Les Geographies du Monde 7. Ed. Margaret Sankey. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 400 pp. 22 b/w pls. index. append. illus. map. bibl. CHF95. ISBN: 2-7453-1382-7.

Percy, William. William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition. Ed. Matthew Dimmock. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. vi 260 pp. index. append. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5406-0.

Sarrocchi, Margherita. Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Ed. and trans. Rinaldina Russell. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxviii 462 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $75 (cl), $29 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-73507-9 (cl), 0-226-73508-7 (pbk).

Shakespeare, William. Measure for Measure. Updated Edition. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Ed. Brian Gibbons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv 222 pp. illus. tbls. bibl. $70 (cl), $14.99 (pbk). ISBN: 0-521-85448-2 (cl), 0-521-67078-0 (pbk).

Shapiro, Norman R., ed. and trans. Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi 384 pp. illus. $17. ISBN: 0-226-75052-3.

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Book 2. Ed. Erik Gray. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2006. xxviii 244 pp. index. gloss. bibl. $9.95. ISBN: 0-87220-847-8.

Thevet, Andre. Histoire d'Andre Thevet Angoumoisin, Cosmographe du Roy, de deuz voyages pay luy faits aux Indes Australes, et Occidentales. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 416. Ed. Jean-Claude Laborie and Frank Lestringant. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2006. 496 pp. 16 b/w pls. index. append. illus. gloss. bibl. CHF150. ISBN: 2-600-01042-4.

Trapezuntius, Georgius. Rhetoricum libri quinque. Europaea Memoria: Studien und Texte zur Geschichte der europaischen Ideen. Reihe II, Band 3. Ed. Luc Deitz. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2006. xxxii 662 pp. index. [euro]88. ISBN: 3-487-11573-5.

Williams, Gerhild Scholz, ed. and trans. On the Inconstancy of Witches: Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612). Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 307. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. liv 586 pp. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $62. ISBN: 0-86698-352-X.

Zarlino, Gioseffo. Motets from 1549. Part 1: Motets Based on the Song of Songs. Ed. Cristle Collins Judd. Middleton: A-R Editions, 2006. xxvi 106 pp. $83. ISBN: 0-89579-598-1.

 

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