Case studies of private art collections recorded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Mantua. This work seeks to show how the collectors' tas

The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In

This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.

2004 is the quatercentenary of the death of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. This collection of 39 essays is published in celebration of his life and achiev