Books received

Renaissance Quarterly, Winter, 2007

Boillet, Danielle, and Michel Plaisance, eds. Les Annees trente du XVIe siecle italien: actes de colloque international (Paris 3-5 juin 2004). Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la Renaissance italienne 28/Centre de recherche: culture et societe en Italie aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siecles. Paris: CIRRI, 2007. 364 pp. index. [euro]35. ISBN: 978-2-900478-28-8.

Includes: Antonio Sorella, "L'autore e il Suo Tipografo"; Lina Bolzoni, "L'amore e le Donne Nella Trattatistica Degli Anni Trenta"; Paul Lariviaille, "Prodromes de Manierisme dans les Premieres Decennies du XVIe Siecle"; Mario Chiesa, "Don Teofilo Folengo 'parteggiano'"; Adriano Prosperi, "Leandro Alberti e la Storioggraifia sull'Iralia Negli Anni '30 del '500"; Juan Carlos D'Amico, "Le De Coronatione de Girolamo Balbi et la Fin de l'Age de Fer"; Nerida Newbigin, "Una Commedia per la Visita de Carlo V? I prigioni Tradotti dagl'Intronati di Siena"; Paolo Procaccioli, "Nobilta e Miseria Della Questua d'Artista: A Proposito di Aretino Ricattatore"; Luciana Miotto, "La villa Imperiale de Pesaro: Architecture et Theatre"; Sylvie Terzariol, "Les Dialogorum de Prodigiis libri tres de Polydore Vergile"; Elise Boillet, "L'Ecriture Traduite, Commentee, Reecrite: Antonio Brucioli, Teofilo Folengo, l'Aretin"; Michel Feuillet, "L'Annonciation de Recanati par Lorenzo Lotto: La Crise de Mystere"; Donatella Donzelli, "Il sogno di Parnaso de Lodovico Dolce (1532)"; Matteo Residori, "Sulla Corrispondenza Poetica Tra Berni e Michelangelo (Senza Dimenticare Sebastiano del Piombo)"; Paola Cosentino, "Une Publication 'Florentine' a Rome: Les Rime volgari de Lodovico Martelli"; Marie-Francoise Piejus, "Une Lecture Academique d'Alessandro Piccolomini: La Poesie Feminine a l'Honneur"; Alexandre Doroszlai, "L'ultime Redaction du Roland furieux et l''inspiration cartographique'"; Giulio Ferroni, "L'Orlando Furioso Negli Anni '30: Qualche Nota"; Sergio Zatti, "Poesia, Verita e Potere: Furioso XXXV, Furioso XXXVII, Liberata IV"; Salvatore Lo Re, "Tra Filologia e Politica: Un Medaglione di Piero Vettori (1532-1543)"; Alfredo Perifano, "Un Aspect du Dialogue Scientifique dan les Annees 1530: Le Barbaromastix Contenu dans le Novae academiae florentinae opuscula (1533)"; Michel Plaisance, "La Formation Litteraire de Lasca"; Marina Marietti, "L'Aridosia de Lorenzino de Medicis (1536)"; and Lucie De Los Santos, "Florence et les Exiles Republicains: Le Tournant de 1534-1537."

Borsay, Anne, and Peter Shapely, eds. Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c. 1550-1950. Historical Urban Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. xiv 270 pp. index. illus. tbls. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5148-2.

Includes: Anne Borsay and Peter Shapely, "Introduction"; Ian Atherton, Eileen McGrath, and Alannah Tomkins, "'Pressed down by want and afflicted with poverty, wounded and maimed in war and worn down with age?' Cathedral Almsmen in England 1538-1914"; Sylvia Pinches, "From Common Rights to Cold Charity: Enclosure and Poor Allotments in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"; Sheila Cooper, "Kinship and Welfare in Early Modern England: Sometimes Charity Begins at Home"; Anne Borsay, "Deaf Children and Charitable Education in Britain 1790-1944"; Stuart Hogarth, "Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary: A Plebeian Patient in the Industrial Revolution"; Jonathan Reinarz, "Investigating the 'Deserving' Poor: Charity and the Voluntary Hospitals in Nineteenth-Century Birmingham"; Andrea Tanner, "Choice and the Children's Hospital: Great Ormond Street Hospital Patients and their Families 1855-1900"; Anne C. Shepherd, "Mental Health Care and Charity for the Middling Sort: Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900"; Flurin Condrau, "Urban Tuberculosis Patients and Sanatorium Treatment in the Early Twentieth Century"; Barry Doyle, "Power and Accountability in the Voluntary Hospitals of Middlesbrough 1900-1948"; Peter Shapely, "The Co-operative Men's Guild, Citizenship and the Limits of Mutual Aid 1911-1960"; and Pat Starkey, "Retelling the Stories of Clients of Voluntary Social Work Agencies in Britain after 1945."