[5 Volumes in 1] Renaissance Studies - Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies Volume 27: February - Number 1, April - Number 2, June - Number 3, September (The Italian University in the Renaissance. Guest editors: David Rundle and Alessandra Petrina) - Number 4, November - Number 5.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Condition: Minimally rubbed bindings. Otherwise in perfect condition. / Zustand: Minimal beriebene Einb�e. Ansonsten im einwandfreien Zustand. - Content: Number 1: Eclipsed: An overshadowed goddess and the discarded image of Botticelli�s Primavera - John Dee; Mildmay Fane�s masque Raguaillo d�Oceano (1640): royalism, Puritanism and sea voyages - Sara Trevisan; Beyond Rome: Sebastiano Del Piombo as a painter of diplomatic gifts - Piers Baker-Bates; Print and polemic in sixteenth-century France: the Histoires prodigieuses, confessional identity, and the Wars of Religion - Jennifer Spinks; Watching flesh: poison and the fantasy of temporal control in Renaissance England - Miranda Wilson; Amethystus Princeps Sobrietatis�: signing a sixteenth-century pledge - Emma Herdman; .Artemisia Gentileschi: Storia di una passione - reviewed by J�rg Zutter; Recovering lost Wits - Matthew Woodcock;Madhavi Menon (ed.), Shak^squeer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2011) - reviewed by Vin Nardizzi; Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton (eds.), Ireland in the Renaissance: c. 1540-1660. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007) - reviewed by Brendan Dooley; Ian Gadd (ed.), The History of the Book in the West: 1455-1700, Volume II. (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010) - reviewed by N. C. Aldred; James Madge, Sabbioneta Cryptic City. (London: Bibliotheque McLean, 2011) - reviewed by Piers Baker-Bates; Holly Dugan, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modem England. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and Mark Albert Johnston, Beard Fetish in Early Modem England: Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value. (Burlington, VT and Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) - reviewed by Lesel Dawson; Number 2: Friendship and religion in the Republic of Letters; the return of Justus Lipsius to Catholicism (1591) - Jan Machielsen; William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates - Mike Pincombe; Marlowe and the Greeks - Neil Rhodes; Cipriano de' Mari�s Lucianic speech for Ren�f Anjou (St-Di�MS 37): humanism and diplomacy in Genoa and beyond - Oren J. Margolis; Market ethics and credit practices in sixteenth-century Tuscany - James E. Shaw; The extrinsic in the architectural thinking of Leon Battista Alberti: a reading of Sant�Andrea in Mantua - James Lawson; Silence and secrets in Domenico Fetti�s Portrait of a Man with a Sheet of Music - Sean Roberts; I Preraffaelliti. Il Sogno del �400 italiano da Beato Angelico a Perugino, da Rossetti a Burne Jones Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones e il Mito dell�Italia nell�Inghilterra vittoriana - reviewed by John E. Law; This England: literature, locality and nation in recent Renaissance studies - Stewart Mottram; Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp (eds.), Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modem Europe. (Burlington, VT and Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) - reviewed by Brendan Dooley; Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw, The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modem Europe. (Harlow: Longman, 2012) - reviewed by Stella Fletcher; Micheline White (ed.) English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625. (Burlington, VT and Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) - reviewed by Megan Matchinske; Marco Folin (ed.), Courts and Courtly Arts in Renaissance Italy: Arts, Culture and Politics, 1395-1530. (Woodbridge: Antique Collectors� Club, 2011) - reviewed by Fabrizio Nevola; Michael Potterton and Thomas Herron (eds.), Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c. 1540-1660. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011) - reviewed by Patricia Palmer; Number 3: Postured like a whore? Misreading Hermione�s statue - Eric Langley; Translating Cicero in Renaissance Catalunya - Alejandro Coroleu; Perrault�s memoirs and Bernini: a reconsideration - Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi; Petrarch�s letters of recommendation - Kenneth Austin; �Still finest wits are stilling Venus Rose�: Robert Southwell�s �Optima Deo�, Venus and Adonis, and Tasso�s canto della rosa - Jason Lawrence; Edmund Spenser and Elizabethan portraiture - Tarnya Cooper and Andrew Hadfield; The land of the Goths and Vandals: the visual presentation of Gothicism at the Swedish Court, 1550-1700 - Kristoffer Neville; Der Fr�he D�rer (The Early D�rer) - reviewed by Ruth Slenczka; Catherine Richardson, Shakespeare and Material Culture. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) - reviewed by Hester Leesjeffries; Stephen Orgel, Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books and Selves in Early Modem England, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2(11) - reviewed by Melissa E. Sanchez; Eiaine Leong and Alisha Rankin (eds.), Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800. (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011) - reviewed by Dario Tessicini; Number 4: Introduction - David Rundle and Alessandra Petrina; �Medieval�, �Renaissance�, �modern�. Issues of periodization in Italian university history - Peter Denley; Violence and Italian universities during the Renaissance - Jonathan Davies; Girolamo Cardano: university student and professor - Guido Giglioni; Beyond the classroom: international interest in the studia humanitatis in the university towns of Quattrocento Italy - David Rundle; Autonomy by imposition. The birth of the natio Scota in the law faculty of the University of Padua (1534) - Francesco Piovan; Notes from the archives concerning the Paduan days of Thomas Savage (1481-1482) - Elda Martellozzo Forin; Padua and English students revisited - Jonathan Woolfson ; Number 5: Make me a poet, and I�ll quickly be a man: masculinity, pedagogy and poetry in the English Renaissance - Kate Chedgzoy; The Medici judge, a bitter lawsuit, and an embezzlement: the Opera del Sacro Cingolo�s bronze chapel screen at Santo Stefano, Prato - Mayu Fujikawa; The understanding of a woman: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo�s Christ and the Samaritan Woman - Bernadine Barnes; Plague in the city: identifying the subject of Giovanni di Paolo�s Vienna Miracle of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino - Louise Marshall; Giovanni Bellini�s Baptism of Christ in its visual and devotional context: transforming sacred space in Santa Corona in Vicenza - Joanne Allen; The Piacevoli Notti of Giambattista Casali: diplomats and fairy tales in early modern Italy - Megan K. Williams; The art of friendship: Daniel Nijs, Isaac Wake and the sale of the Gonzaga collection - Christina M. Anderson; Leonardo da Vinci. Painter at the Court of Milan and La Sainte-Anne. L�ultime chef-d�oeuvre de L�ard de Vinci reviewed by Juliana Barone; Bagliori dorati: Il Gotico Internazionale a Firenze, 1375-1440 - reviewed by Scott Nethersole; Lucretius� Renaissance - Stuart Gillespie; Adrian Streete (ed.), Early Modem Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625. (Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2012) - reviewed by David Walker; Nandini Das, Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620. (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011) - reviewed by Matthew Woodcock; Pascale Aebischer and Kathryn Prince (eds.), Performing Early Modern Drama Today. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) - reviewed by Jos�. P�z Diez; John E. Law and Bernadette Paton (eds.), Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. (Farnham and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2010) - reviewed by Stella Fletcher; Chlo�ouston (ed.), New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modem Period. (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010) - reviewed by Tamsin Theresa Badcoe.