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Dolce’s Aretino and Venetian Art Theory of the Cinquecento
Mark W. Roskill
Ludovico Dolce’s Dialogo della pittura first appeared in Venice in 1557. L’Aretino, by which the work is
known today, consists of a threepart dialogue between two Venetians, Aretino and Fabrini, on the particular
merits of works of art and artists, including Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello. It is based largely on
Aretino’s letters. The edition is presented in the original Italian with English facing-page translation.
(RSART 10) 368 pp / 7 x 9 / 2000
Paper 978-0-8020-8333-3 $36.95 (£25.99)
More’s Utopia
Dominic Baker-Smith
This book prepares the reader for the challenge of Utopia: it places the work in the context of early
sixteenth-century Europe and the intellectual preoccupations of More’s own humanist circle, and clarifies
those sources in Classical and Christian political thought which provoked his writing. Dominic Baker-Smith
also surveys the varied critical reception accorded to Utopia over the last four centuries, providing an intriguing
look at Utopia’s role in cultural history.
(RSART 11) 270 pp / 6 x 9 / 2000
Paper 978-0-8020-8376-0 $29.95 (£20.99)
Venice
A Documentary History, 1450–1630
Edited by David Chambers and Brian Pullan, with Jennifer Fletcher
During the Renaissance, there were two centres of art, culture and mercantile power in Italy: Florence, and Venice.
This is a sourcebook of primary materials, almost none previously available in English, for the history of the citystate
of Venice. The time period covers the apogee of Venetian power and reputation to the beginnings of its
decline in the 1630s. Sources used include diaries, chronicles, Inquisitorial records, literature, legislation, and
contemporary descriptions, and are organized in sections by theme and accompanied by brief introductions.
(RSART 12) 484 pp / 6 x 9 / 9 illustrations / 2001
Paper 978-0-8020-8424-8 $40.95 (£28.99)
Jews in the Canary Islands
Being a calendar of Jewish cases extracted from the records of the
Canariote Inquisition in the collection of the Marquess of Bute
Translated from the Spanish and edited with an introduction and notes by Lucien Wolf
In 1504, the Office of the Inquisition was set up in the remote Spanish holdings on the Canary Islands to
seek out crypto-Jews, sorcerers, and other heretics. Jews in the Canary Islands is a calendar of Jewish cases
brought before the Canariote Inquisition between 1499 and 1818, when the Inquisition was discontinued.
Together with an Introduction analyzing the work of the Inquisition and explaining its relation to general
Jewish history until 1928, this is a fascinating collection of records showing not only the workings of the
Inquisition, but the lives of crypto-Jews during a time of fierce repression.
(RSART 13) 320 pp / 6 x 9 / 2001
Cloth 978-0-8020-3585-1 $78.00 (£54.99) • Paper 978-0-8020-8450-7 $32.95 (£23.99)
Soldiers of Christ
Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France
Winner of the 1996 John Nicholas
Brown Prize of the Medieval
Academy of America
Larissa Juliet Taylor
In an age when the printed book was still in its infancy, the pulpit was the mass medium. A vital part of religious
life, sermons were the chief occasions on which the church attempted to bridge the gap between high theology
and popular religious culture. The preaching event provided the opportunity for men and women to socialize,
flirt, dispute with or mock the preacher and, in a more positive way, to heed the preacher’s words and change
their lives. Larissa Juliet Taylor has examined over 1600 sermons given by the leading lay preachers in France
between 1460 and 1560, and examines the social context of preaching and the sermon while reconstructing
popular attitudes towards original sin, free will, purgatory, the Devil, the sacraments, and the magical arts.
(RSART 14) 352 pp / 6 x 9 / 2002
Paper 978-0-8020-8557-3 $32.95 (£23.99)
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