Table of Contents

Renaissances Michael Wyatt; 1. Artistic geographies Stephen J. Campbell; 2. Antiquities Kathleen Wren Christian; 3. Mapping and voyages Francesca Fiorani; 4. Artists' workshops Patricia L. Reilly; 5. Technologies Michael Wyatt; 6. Languages Maurizio Campanelli; 7. Publication Brian Richardson; 8. Verse Deanna Shemek; 9. Prose Jon R. Snyder; 10. Music Giuseppe Gerbino; 11. Spectacle Ronald L. Martinez; 12. Philosophy Diego Pirillo; 13. Religion Adriano Prosperi; 14. Political cultures Mark Jurdjevic; 15. Economies Judith C. Brown; 16. Social relations Giovanna Benadusi; 17. Science and medicine Katharine Park and Concetta Pennuto; Bibliography.

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About the Author

Michael Wyatt is an independent scholar. His work is engaged with the pre-modern cultural histories of Italy, England and France, particularly questions of translation as both a textual practice and a socio-political phenomenon. He is the author of The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation (2005) and co-edited (with Deanna Shemek) Writing Relations, American Scholars in Italian Archives: Essays for Franca Nardelli Petrucci and Armando Petrucci (2008). He is currently working on a second monograph, John Florio and the Circulation of Stranger Cultures in Early Stuart Britain, a critical edition of Florio's 1603 translation of Montaigne, The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, and he is an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy.

Reviews

'These [essays] are not merely well-written outlines of specific topics, but provide access to rare sources and offer refreshing insights and interdisciplinary connections ... In a word, literature, in the Renaissance, is encyclopaedic. And the Companion lavishly demonstrates this through its sheer thematic variety.' Nicola Gardini, The Times Literary Supplement
"These [essays] are not merely well-written outlines of specific topics, but provide access to rare sources and offer refreshing insights and interdisciplinary connections ... In a word, literature, in the Renaissance, is encyclopaedic. And the Companion lavishly demonstrates this through its sheer thematic variety." Nicola Gardini, The Times Literary Supplement