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The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving
Arte de cocina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería
Price:
$150.00
ISBN: 9781487549374
Pub Date: December 2023
Taking readers back to the Spanish Habsburg court, this critical edition and translation of Arte de cocina presents a nuanced understanding of what foods were prepared and consumed during a monumental time in Spain’s culinary history.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Collected Works of Erasmus
Controversies, Volume 74
Price:
$195.00
ISBN: 9781487546298
Pub Date: January 2023
This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus' response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics.
Heroic Awe
The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487545369
Pub Date: December 2022
Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
Price:
$104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: November 2022
Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work.
The Republic of Venice
De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
Price:
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487546021
Pub Date: June 2022
This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.
The Crusade of 1456
Texts and Documentation in Translation
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487523930
Pub Date: June 2022
The Crusade of 1456 offers translations of key sources from an often overlooked yet consequential event in fifteenth-century Europe.
The Gastronomical Arts in Spain
Food and Etiquette
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487540524
Pub Date: April 2022
This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of Spanish gastronomy and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2940 to 3141, Volume 21
Price:
$263.00
ISBN: 9781487507664
Pub Date: December 2021
This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.
Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
Price:
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487503802
Pub Date: September 2021
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.
Chocolate
How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487527204
Pub Date: July 2021
Chocolate traces representations of chocolate in Spanish literature and historical documents, providing a fascinating and worldly narrative about one of the most beloved foods of all time.
Erasmus on Literature
His Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518/1519
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487522100
Pub Date: April 2021
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.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2803 to 2939, Volume 20
Price:
$248.00
ISBN: 9781487505851
Pub Date: July 2020
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
Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy
Price:
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487505448
Pub Date: March 2020
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.
Sarra Copia Sulam
A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice
Price:
$97.00
ISBN: 9781487505837
Pub Date: December 2019
The first biography of the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam situates her in the tradition of women’s writing in Venice and explores her rise and fall as a public intellectual in the tumultuous world of the city’s presses.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2635 to 2802, Volume 19
Price:
$256.00
ISBN: 9781487504588
Pub Date: November 2019
This volume includes Erasmus’s correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533.

The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving
Arte de cocina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería
$150.00
ISBN: 9781487549374
Pub Date: December 2023
Taking readers back to the Spanish Habsburg court, this critical edition and translation of Arte de cocina presents a nuanced understanding of what foods were prepared and consumed during a monumental time in Spain’s culinary history.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Collected Works of Erasmus
Controversies, Volume 74
$195.00
ISBN: 9781487546298
Pub Date: January 2023
This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus' response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics.
Heroic Awe
The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487545369
Pub Date: December 2022
Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
$104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: November 2022
Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work.
The Republic of Venice
De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487546021
Pub Date: June 2022
This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.
The Crusade of 1456
Texts and Documentation in Translation
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487523930
Pub Date: June 2022
The Gastronomical Arts in Spain
Food and Etiquette
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487540524
Pub Date: April 2022
This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of Spanish gastronomy and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2940 to 3141, Volume 21
$263.00
ISBN: 9781487507664
Pub Date: December 2021
This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.
Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487503802
Pub Date: September 2021
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.
Chocolate
How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487527204
Pub Date: July 2021
Chocolate traces representations of chocolate in Spanish literature and historical documents, providing a fascinating and worldly narrative about one of the most beloved foods of all time.
Erasmus on Literature
His Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518/1519
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487522100
Pub Date: April 2021
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.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2803 to 2939, Volume 20
$248.00
ISBN: 9781487505851
Pub Date: July 2020
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
Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487505448
Pub Date: March 2020
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.
Sarra Copia Sulam
A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice
$97.00
ISBN: 9781487505837
Pub Date: December 2019
The first biography of the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam situates her in the tradition of women’s writing in Venice and explores her rise and fall as a public intellectual in the tumultuous world of the city’s presses.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2635 to 2802, Volume 19
$256.00
ISBN: 9781487504588
Pub Date: November 2019
This volume includes Erasmus’s correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533.