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Renaissance Quarterly
A journal covering art, literature, and history of the Renaissance for the academic audience. Contains research studies, review essays, and book reviews. Features literary works and themes, as well as specialized studies in the arts, religion, and social
Articles from Vol. 54, No. 3, Autumn
Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of Dufay's Nuper Rosarum Flares and the Cathedral of Florence
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The proportions of the voices are harmonies fir the ears; those of the measurements are harmonies for the eyes. Such harmonies usually please very much, without anyone knowing why, excepting the student of the causality of things. --Palladia (1567)...
"Deaf as Ulysses to the Siren's Song": The Story of a Forgotten Topos [*]
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Avaunt, Inchantress! - I am deaf as Adders; Deaf as Ulysses to the Siren's Song, Who strove in vain to lure him to Destruction. Lewis Theobald Richly suggestive on a variety of levels, Odysseus's encounter with the Sirens in Homer's Odyssey...
Female Complaintes: Laments of Venus, Queens, and City Women in Late Sixteenth-Century France [*]
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This essay studies a large repertory of French laments (complaintes) written in the voices of women. As a feminine counterpart to masculine love lyric, the complainte arose from an alternative poetics, treating subjects excluded from fin amors, such...
Guido Casoni on Love as Music, A Theme "For All Ages and Studies" [*]
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Onde sappiamo non esser etade, O studio, che sia separato dal canto. In an essay on La magia d'amore, Guido Casoni (d. 1642) demonstrated how music, along with other arts and sciences, is generated by love. On the surface, the essay strikes one...
(Re)visiting Delie: Maurice Sceve and Marian Poetry [*]
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Si iracunda, aut avaritia, aut carnis illecebra naviculam concusserit mentis, respice ad Mariam. Bernard, In laudibus Virginis Matris Factat animam Vulcanus, vestes aptat Pallas, fucat Venus, & cesto cingit, ornant catera Dea, docet pessimos...
Tyard's Graphic Metamorphoses: Figuring the Semiosic Drift in the Douze Fables De Fleuves Ou Fontaines
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Pontus de Tyard, a lesser-known member of the Pleiade poets of mid-sixteenth-century France, was deeply influenced by the concerns of his comrades and contemporaries about the elemental remoteness of all "reality" and the resulting "semiosic drift"...
