[5 Volumes in 1] Renaissance Studies - Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies Volume 24: February (Re-thinkin Renaissance Objects: Design, Function and Meaning) - Number 1, April - Number 2, June - Number 3, September - 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: Introduction - Peta Motture and Michelle O�Malley; Finding fame: painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy - Michelle O�Malley; Set in stone: monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence - Meghan Callahan & Donal Cooper; Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 - NorbertJopek; New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A - Nick Humphrey & Martino Ferrari Bravo; Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement - Elizabeth Miller & Alun Graves; Dancing, love and the �beautiful game�: a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century �gaming� boxes - Paula Nuttall; Sharing and status: the design and function of a sixteenth-century. Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Kirstin Kennedy; Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining - Flora Dennis; Number 2: Kings and tyrants: Leonardo Bruni�s translation of Xenophon�s Hiero - Brian Jeffrey Maxson; �You cannot sell liberty for all the gold there is�: promoting good governance in early Renaissance Florence - Peter Howard; Carit� potere: representing the Medici grand dukes as �fathers of the Innocenti� - Diana Bullen Presciutti; Rabelais and the reception of the �art� of Ram�ull in early sixteenth-century France - John Lewis; The Renaissance of bees - Jonathan Woolfson; Review of exhibitions: Annibale Carracci - reviewed by Clare Robertson; La Nascita dell�arazzeria medicea dalle botteghe dei maestri fiamminghi alla manifattura ducale dei �Creati fiorentini� Women in Power: Caterina and Maria de� Medici, the Return to Florence of two Queens of France - reviewed by Andrea M. G�y; Renaissance non-humanism: plants, animals, machines, matter - Kevin Curran; Iain Fenlon, The Cerernonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) - reviewed by Alexandra Bamji; Margaret D. Carroll, Painting and Politics in Northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and Their Contemporaries. (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008) reviewed by Jeanne Nuechterlein Tobias Foster Gittes, Boccaccio�s Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and Mythopoetic Imagination. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008) - reviewed by Rhiannon Daniels; Matteo Residori (ed.), Espaces chevaleresques et h��es de Boiardo au Tasse. (Universit�e Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle, 2008) - reviewed by Jane Everson; Number 3: Ficino�s Idea of architecture: the �mind�s-eye view� in Quattrocento architectural drawings - Kathryn Blair Moore; �Condemned by some, read by all�: the attempt to suppress the publications of the Louvain humanist Erycius Puteanus in 1608 - Demmy Verbeke; John Donne, godly inscription, and permanency of self in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - Matthew Horn; The �true likenesses� in Francisco Pacheco�s Libro de retratos - Marta Cacho Casal; Thomas Browne�s A Letter to a Friend and the semiotics of disease - Reid Barbour; �The mountains are in labour, only mice are born�: Milton and republican diplomacy - Rosanna Cox; Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice - reviewed by Thomas McGrath; Gwyn Fox, Subtle Subversions. Reading Golden Age Sonnets by Iberian Women. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008) - reviewed by C. Brian Morris; Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Art, Marriage, & Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008) - reviewed by Gabriele Neher; Dana E. Katz, The Jews in the Art of the Italian Renaissance. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) - reviewed by Tom Nichols; Kathryn Banks, Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry. (Oxford: Legenda, 2008) - reviewed by Emma Herdman; Number 4: A literary invention: the Etruscan myth in early Renaissance Florence - Erik Schoonhoven; Two Greek excerpts by Johannes Cuno (1463-1513) in London - Arundel 550 - Eugenia Russell; Romance and resistance: narratives of chivalry in mid-Tudor England - Edward Wilson-Lee; �Quid sit anima�: Juan Luis Vives on the soul and its relation to the body - Lorenzo Casini; �Furnished with gentlemen�: the ambassador�s house in sixteenth-century Italy - Catherine Fletcher; Catholic loyalism, service and careerism: Lewes Lewkenor�s quest for favour - Marco Nievergelt; Royalist approaches to the civil war and commonwealth in familiar letter collections - Gary Schneider; Der Meister von Fl�lle und Rogier van der Weyden - reviewed by Stephen Hanley; Charles the Bold: Splendour of Burgundy - reviewed by Godfried Croenen; Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World - reviewed by Pablo P�z d�Ors; On patronage, fama and court: early modern political culture - Natasha Constantinidou; Alexander Cowan, Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice. (Aidershot: Ashgate, 2007) - reviewed by Sarah Cockram; Virginia Cox, Women�s Writing in Italy 1400-1650. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) - reviewed by Eleonora Carinci; Michele Marrapodi (ed.), Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning. (Aidershot: Ashgate, 2007) - reviewed by John Roe; Number 5: Plotting conflict in Florence 1300 - N. P.J. Gordon; In the mouths of charlatans. Street performers and the dissemination of pamphlets in Renaissance Italy - Rosa Salzberg; �Conspicuous� consumption and popular consumers: material culture and social status in sixteenth-century Siena - Paula Hohti; Walter Scott of Buccleuch, Italian poet? - Alessandra Petrina; Strangers at home: the Sherley brothers and dramatic romance - Laurence Publicover; �Diversi Santi della nostra Citt� two frescoes by Ventura Salimbeni in Siena Cathedral - Gerald Parsons; �The proper and naturall meaning of the Prophets�: the hermeneutic roots of Judeo-centric eschatology - Andrew Crome; Cranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern. Kirche, Hof und Stadtkultur - reviewed by Jeffrey Chipps Smith; Catherine�s World: Devotion, Demons and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century - reviewed by Katherine Wilson; Titien, Tintoret, V�n� . . . Rivalit��enise - reviewed by Piers Baker-Bates; Recent studies in early modern Irish history - Andrew Hadfield; Heather Dubrow, The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry in Early Modern England. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) - eviewed by Hugh Adlington; Abigail Brundin, Victoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation. (Aidershot: Ashgate Press, 2008) - reviewed by Jane Tylus; Ernest B. Gilman, Plague Writing in Early Modem England. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009) - reviewed by Joseph P. Byrne; Nina Taunton, Fictions of Old Age in Early Modem Literature and Culture. (New York: Routledge, 2007) - reviewed by Anthony Ellis; David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens (eds.), Early Modern Nationalism and Milton�s England. (Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 2008) - reviewed by Nicholas McDowell; Jyotsna G. Singh (ed.), A Companion to the Global Renaissance. English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) - reviewed by Michael G. Brennan; J. B. Lethbridge, Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive Opposites. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008) - reviewed by Kenneth Borris; David Loades, The Tudor Queens of England. (London: Continuum, 2009) - reviewed by Janet Dickinson.