Renaissance Studies / Renaissance Literature

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

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.

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.

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.

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 pioneering comparative study of Spanish literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries represents key moments and figures of the English Reformation.

A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 – a time of social and economic crisis, but also of remarkable artistic and literary production.

Cures for Chance examines how early modern dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family and nature.

In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' Don Quixote is as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory.

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.

The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron – a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning