Renaissance Studies / Renaissance Literature

In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their skies with bestial vices, and narrates a mythical drama of universal reform designed to replace them with their respective virtues.

On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.

This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639.

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

This unabridged, annotated English translation of Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino brings this popular Italian Renaissance romance to English readers for the first time.

Offering fresh perspectives on well-known texts, Against Reproduction is an accessible and compelling book that will affect the study of both Renaissance literature and queer theory.

Ovid in the Age of Cervantes is an important and comprehensive re-evaluation of Ovid's impact on Renaissance and Early Modern Spain.

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.

Drawing the Curtain examines the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes experiments with theatre and exploits theatricality in his diverse literary creations.

In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.

A Sudden Frenzy explores the intellectual and cultural history of improvisation and oral poetry in Renaissance Italy.

Quixotic Memories explores the complexity of memory through the lens of Miguel de Cervantes and his famous novel Don Quixote.

Veronica Franco in Dialogue reconsiders the literary and cultural significance of a well-known sixteenth-century Venetian courtesan and writer.

Cervantes' Architectures uncovers and examines the countless architectures found in Cervantes’ prose fiction.

This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of Spanish gastronomy and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present.