[5 Volumes in 1] Renaissance Studies - Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies Volume 25: February (Gardens and Horticulture in Early Modern Europe) - 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 scuffed and rubbed binding. Otherwise in good condition. / Zustand: Minimal beriebene und besto�ne Einb�e. 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: �Gascoigne�s Gardnings� - Susan C. Staub; �My innocent diversion of gardening�: Mary Somerset�s plants - Jennifer Munroe; Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega�s 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 Camoes�s 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 Clarendon�s 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 Munster�s 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 Massinger�s tragicomedies - Laura Tosi; Philips�s 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. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2009) - reviewed by Tom MacFaul; Kathleen Wren Christian, Empire without End. Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527. (New Haven and London: Yale LTniversity Press, 2010) - reviewed by Guido Rebecchini; Number 4: Medicean metamorphoses: Carnival in Florence, 1513 - Nicholas Scott Baker; The construction of artistic reputation in Seicento Bologna: Guido Reni and the Sirani - Babette Bohn; Humanist Aristotelianism in the vernacular: two sixteenth-century programmes - Paula Olmos; AntiJesuit patriotic absolutism: Robert Filmer and French ideas (c. 1580-1630) - Cesare Cuttica; El Esplendor del Renacimiento en Aragon - Reviewed by Piers Baker-Bates and Kim Woods; Greek in the Renaissance: scholarship, dissemination and transition - Eugenia Russell; Suzanne Magnanini, Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile. (Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2008) - reviewed by Chris Laoutaris; Paul Scott (ed.), Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Maber. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2010) - reviewed by Christian Thorsten Callisen; William H. Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England. (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2008) - reviewed by Guyda Armstrong; Lorenzo Calvelli, Cipro e la memoria dell�antico fra medioevo e rinascimento: la percezione del passato romano dell�isola nel mondo occidentale. (Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 2009) - reviewed by Peter Edbury; Clayton G. MacKenzie, Deathly Experiments: A Study of Icons and Emblems of Mortality in Christopher Marlowe�s Plays. (New York: AMS Press, 2010) - reviewed by Lisa Hopkins; Martin Rankin, Christopher Highley and John N. King, (eds.), Henry VIII and his Afterlives: Literature, Politics and Art. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) - reviewed by Greg Walker; Eil� Ni Chuillean� and John Flood (eds.), Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010) - reviewed by Thomas Charlton; Marguerite de Navarre, Selected Writings: a Bilingual Edition, ed. and tr. by Rouben Cholakian and Mary Skemp. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2008) - reviewed by Cathy Hampton; Lauren Shohet, Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) - reviewed by Neil Forsyth; Number 5: The Arabic theory of astral influences in early modern medicine - Liana Saif; The nun apothecaries of Renaissance Florence: marketing medicines in the convent - Sharon T. Strocchia; Samuel Daniel�s The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso�s Armida in England - Jason Lawrence; Fatherly violence, motherly absence, servants� resistance in Shakespeare and his time - Hiewon Shin; Constructing Isabella d� Este �s musical decorum in the visual sphere - Tim Shephard; Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi: Da Bramantino a Bernardino Luini - reviewed by J�rg Zutter; The Body in Renaissance Studies - Margaret Healy; Christopher F. Black, The Italian Inquisition. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009) - reviewed by Emily Michelson; Catherine Gimelli Martin, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010) - reviewed by Michael Davies; Michael Schoenfeldt, The Qambridge Introduction to Shakespeare�s Poetry. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) - reviewed by Peter Hyland; Paul White, Renaissance Postscripts'. Responding to Ovid�s Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009) - reviewed by Syrithe Pugh; Thomas More�s Utopia in Early Modern Europe: Paratexts and Contexts, ed. Terence Cave. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008) - reviewed by John Jowett.