History / Renaissance History

This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.

This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus' response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics.

This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.

This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.

Written more than half a century before Sir Philip Sidney’s well-known Apology for Poetry, Erasmus’ Ratio or ‘System’ is an almost lost masterpiece of Renaissance literary theory and interpretive practice, now available for the first time in English in a convenient student edition.

By reading the works of Miguel de Cervantes through the history of emotion, this book defies a series of long-standing commonplaces about the author’s writing and the Mediterranean region at large.

The thirteen months covered in this volume reveal the decline of Erasmus' health and the creation of his most famous work, On Preparing for Death.

The Court and Its Critics focuses on the disillusionment with courtliness, the derision of those who live at court, and the open hostility toward the court, themes common to Renaissance culture.

This volume includes Erasmus’s correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533.

The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.

Thoughtful and thorough, Untimely Death in Renaissance Drama explores the interplay between historiography and Renaissance English drama.

Solitude and Speechlessness argues that experiences of isolation are inherent to the writing and reading of Renaissance literature, and finds parallels and meaning in the lives of solitary figures including poets, ascetics, and hermits.

Gathering insightful primary documents into one place, Nicholas Terpstra supplies readers with first-hand accounts of the everyday lives of early modern Europeans.

CWE 41 is intended as an essential companion to the full range of Erasmus scholarship on the New Testament, as it is translated, annotated and presented in Volumes 42-60.

Despite having enemies in the powerful Spanish religious orders, and being warned of the controversies that would arise, Erasmus published the fourth edition of his New Testament in 1527, resulting in a major crisis for Erasmianism in Spain. The three texts in the present volume were written in response to his critics.

Venice, Polity of Mercy presents a history of the people of Venice from the mid-thirteenth century to the mid-seventeenth, and provides a new perspective on the changing relationship of their economic, political and religious life.