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2360 p., w/ fig. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Condition: Minimally scuffed and rubbed binding. Otherwise in good condition. / Zustand: Minimal beriebene und bestoßene Einbände. Ansonsten im guten Zustand. - Content: Number 1: Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance - Alexander Samson; The world of the Renaissance herbal - Brent Elliott; Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English Renaissance garden - Paula Henderson; River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy - Claudia Lazzaro; Dissembling his art: Gascoignes Gardnings - Susan C. Staub; My innocent diversion of gardening: Mary Somersets plants - Jennifer Munroe; Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vegas Novelas a Marcia Leonardo - Alexander Samson; Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens - Brian Dix; Number 2: Dominicans, Franciscans, and the art of political rivalry: two drawings and a fresco by Giovanni Battista della Rovere - Thomas McGrath; Natural fools and the historiography of Renaissance folly -Paromita Chakravarti; Mapping the waters: sea charts, navigation, and Camoess Os Lusiadas - Bernhard Klein; La zecca vecchia: myth, archeology and architectural design in the high Renaissance concept of rustication - Lola Kantor-Kazovsky; Mapping the hieroglyphic self: spiritual geometry in the letters of John Winthrop, Jr, and Edward Howes (1627-1640) - Katherine Shrieves; Reading the Psalms with Athanasius and Seneca: Stoicism and providence in the Earl of Clarendons Contemplations - Simon J. G. Burton; Dies Buch in aller Zunge, Hand und Herzen 475 Jahre Lutherbibel - reviewed by Alexandra Kess; Rogier van der Weyden 1400-1464: Master of Passions - reviewed by Jeanne Nuechterlein; Fra Angelico to Leonardo. Italian Renaissance Drawings - reviewed by Francis Ames-Lewis; Silence and Sufferance: The Tacit Milton - Adam Swann; Alexandra Kess, Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History. (Aidershot: Ashgate, 2008) - reviewed by Jonathan Willis; Konrad Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra (eds.), The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, and Studies. Essays in Honour of Paul F. Grendler. (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008) - reviewed by Robert Black; Peter G. Platt, Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox. ((Studies in Performance, ed. Helen Ostovich) Farnham, Surrey, England and Burlington, USA: Ashgate, 2009) - reviewed by Tony Gash; Number 3: America and Amerindians in Sebastian Munsters Cosmographiae universalis libri VI (1550) - Surekha Davies; Strategies of women patrons of music and theatre in Rome: Maria Mancini Colonna, Queen Christina of Sweden, and women of their circles - Valeria De Lucca; Francesco Paciotti, European geopolitics, and military architecture - Ian Verstegen; The compasse of that Islands space: Insular fictions in the writing of Edmund Spenser - Tamsin Badcoe; After Elizabeth: representations of female rule in Massingers tragicomedies - Laura Tosi; Philipss 1628 Paradisus and the triumph of the Eucharist - Kerry McCarthy; Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel - reviewed by Lisa Pon; Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness and Magic - reviewed by Edward Payne; Shannon Miller, Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) - reviewed by John Flood; John Julius Norwich et al., Croatia: Aspects of Art, Architecture and Cultural Heritage. (London: Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2009) - reviewed by Deborah Howard; Pamela S. Hammons, Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse. (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010) - reviewed by Sheila T. Cavanagh; Elisabeth Hodges, Urban Poetics in the French Renaissance. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) - reviewed by Honor Aldred; Ian McAdam, Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama. (Pi.
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