Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisChapter 1: Darkness Visible.- Chapter 2: Fuseli's Bodies in Agony.- Chapter 3: Blake's Biomorphism.- Chapter 4: The Body in the Line: Blake's Dante.- Chapter 5: In the Eye of the Monster: Shelley's Frankenstein.- Chapter 6: Broken Beauties.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Emphatically American Milton.- Chapter 2: Religion is freeing itself: Milton and Religious Liberty in the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 3: In the company of Milton: Milton and Abolition in the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 4: Women Are Indebted to Milton: Milton and Woman's Rights in the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 5: Milton in Our Day.

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Book Synopsis Chapter 1 Blake’s Metaphysical Shamanism.- Chapter 2 Blake’s Early Tractates: Hume, Bayesianism, and Divine Analogy.- Chapter 3 The Tractates, Cont.: Bayesian Culture, Induction, and Berkeley’s Language of Nature.- Chapter 4 Reweaving the Body with Cognitive Metaphors.- Chapter 5 Small Room for Judgment: Geometry and Prolepsis in “Infant Sorrow”.- Chapter 6 The Notebook as Receptacle: Blake’s Platonic Realism.

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Book Synopsis1 Nature.- 2 Knowledge.- 3 Human.- 4 Fields of Tension.- 5 History.- 6 Methods.- 7 Life in the Historical Context.- 8 Fantastic Literature in Metaphysics.- 9 Language and Natural Science.- Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisWritings.- Consequences.

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Book SynopsisIn this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadāmis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadāmisī scholar ʿAbdallāh b. Abī Bakr al-Ghadāmisī (1626–1719 AD), written by the eighteenth-century author Ibn Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī. A second text is “The History of al-Sūq”, concerning al-Sūq, the historic town of Tādmakka and the original home of the Kel-Essouk Tuareg. The third text is “The Precious Jewel in the Saharan histories of the ‘People of the Veil’” by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī, a contemporary Tuareg author. It pertains to the Kel-Essouk and their historical ties with the Maghreb and West Africa. The final text is a description of the Tuareg from the book “Ghadāmis, its features, its images and its sights” by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʿ, published in Arabic in 2001 AD.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements General Introduction Text 1: Tadhkīr al-Nāsī wa-Talyīn al-Qalb al-Qāṣī (The Reminder of the Forgetful and the Softener of the Harsh), by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī Text 2: Khabar al-Sūq (The history of al-Sūq), by ʿAbd al-Hamīd ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥarāma Text 3: al-Jawhar al-Thamīn fi Akhbār Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Mulaththamīn (The Precious Jewel in the Saharan Histories of the “People of the Veil”), by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī Text 4: Ghadāmis, Malāmiḥ wa-Ṣuwar (Ghadāmis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights), by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʿ Conclusion Figures Selected Bibliography Subjects Index

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Book SynopsisA LONG THE KROMMERUN offers a selection of the best papers delivered at the XXIV International James Joyce Symposium hosted by Utrecht University, the Netherlands, June 2014. The essays offer fresh insights into Joyce and De Stijl aesthetic movement which originated in the Netherlands, Joyce’s (language) politics, his use of multilingualism and dialects, and, by way of close readings and genetic approaches of Finnegans Wake, the intricate ways Joyce communicates with his readers. Contributors: Boriana A. Alexandrova, Stephanie Boland, Austin Briggs, Tim Conley, Catherine Flynn, Philip Keel Geheber, Robbert-Jan Henkes, Maria Kager, Katherine O’Callaghan, So Onose, David Pascoe, Sam Slote, David Spurr, and Dirk Van Hulle.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Dandy Paradoxes” David Pascoe The Machine Aesthetic in Joyce and De Stijl David Spurr From Dowel to Tesseract: Joyce and De Stijl from “Cyclops” to Finnegans Wake Catherine Flynn “A Great Future Behind Him”: Revisiting John F. Taylor’s Speech in “Aeolus” Revisited So Onose Bloom’s Dream Cottage and Crusoe’s Island: Man Caves Austin Briggs Joyce Among the Cockneys: The East End as Alternative London Stephanie Boland Babababblin’ Drolleries and Multilingual Phonologies: Developing a Multilingual Ethics of Embodiment through Finnegans Wake Boriana A. Alexandrova Wonderful Vocables: Joyce and the Neurolinguistics of Language Talent Maria Kager Felicitating the Whole of the Polis in Finnegans Wake Sam Slote Assimilating Shem into the Plural Polity: Burrus, Caseous, and Irish Free State Dairy Production Philip Keel Geheber “Behush the Bush. Whish!”: Silence, Loss, and Finnegans Wake Katherine O’Callaghan Waking “for an equality of relations” Tim Conley The Three Fates of the Finnegans Wake Notebook Research Robbert-Jan Henkes The Worldmaker’s Umwelt: The Cognitive Space between a Writer’s Library and the Publishing House Dirk Van Hulle List of contributors

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Book SynopsisIn his pioneering study The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities, Erik S. Roraback argues that modern culture, contemplated over its four-century history, resembles nothing so much as the pearl famously described, by periodizers of old, as irregular, barroco. Reframing modernity as a multi-century baroque, Roraback steeps texts by Shakespeare, Henry James, Joyce, and Pynchon in systems theory and the ideas of philosophers of language and culture from Leibniz to such dynamic contemporaries as Luhmann, Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, and Žižek. The resulting brew, high in intellectual caffeine, will be of value to all who take an interest in cultural modernity—indeed, all who recognize that “modernity” was (and remains) a congeries of competing aesthetic, economic, historical, ideological, philosophical, and political energiesTrade Review"Erik Roraback's The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities is a great book that will engage an energetic and important subfield of scholarship." – William Egginton, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University, author of The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo) Baroque AestheticsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Re-Framing Modernity Part I. A Philosophical & Sociological-Dramatic Baroque § 1 Niklas Luhmann & Autopoietic Forms of the Neo (baroque) Modern; or: Structure, System, & Contingency § 2 Toward another Minor Globality to Come; or, The Folds of Desire’s (Dis)contents of Orson Welles, Lacan, & Shakespeare’s King Lear (c. 1606) § 3 The Monad of Deleuze’s Many-Tiered High Baroque G.W. Leibniz Part II. A Literary-Philosophical Baroque § 4 A Multiplicity of Folds of An Unconscious & Autopoietic Monad of Henry James, Benjamin, & Blanchot § 5 Modern and Postmodern Baroque Conceptual Intersections & Interventions: Finnegans Wake (1939), Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) & L’Écriture du désastre (The Writing of the Disaster) (1980) § 6 Autopoietic Neobaroque Vectors: Artistic Authority, Interpretation, & Economic Un-Power of Finnegans Wake § 7 Autopoietic & Joyous Folds: Deleuze’s Le pli: Leibniz et le baroque (The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque) (1988) & Joyce’s ‘stohong baroque’ Finnegans Wake (1939) § 8 An Autopoietic Baroque; or, the Little Experiment Orientations of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) § 9 Folding Blanchot onto Pynchon: Enlightenment Reason, the Global System, & World Citizenship 9.1 The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) 9.2 Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) 9.3 Mason & Dixon (1997) Part III. A Philosophical-Psychoanalytic Baroque § 10 Catastrophe, Allegory, & the Philosophical Baroque: A Spiritual Quartet of Benjamin-Lacan & Joyce-Pynchon Conclusions Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisPolitics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investigating European tragedy in the seventeenth century, comparing Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine and several other vernacular tragedians, together with consideration of neo-Latin dramas by Jesuits and other playwrights. To what extent were similar themes, plots, structures and styles elaborated? How is difference as well as similarity to be accounted for? European drama is beginning to be considered outside of the singular vernacular frameworks in which it has been largely confined (as instanced in the conferences and volumes of essays held in the Universities of Munich and Berlin 2010-12), but up-to-date secondary material is sparse and difficult to obtain. This volume intends to help remedy that deficit by addressing the drama in a full political, religious, legal and social context, and by considering the plays as interventions in those contexts. Contributors are: Christian Biet, Jan Bloemendal, Helmer J. Helmers, Blair Hoxby, Sarah M. Knight, Tatiana Korneeva, Frans-Willem Korsten, Joel B. Lande, Russell J. Leo, Howard B. Norland, Kirill Ospovat, James A. Parente, Jr., Freya Sierhuis, Nienke Tjoelker and Emily Vasiliauskas.Trade Review“The collection vividly demonstrates the appeal of tragedy, whether classicist or Baroque, to both Catholics and Protestants. Biblical, classical, and modern histories made possible the staging of thinly (or not so thinly) veiled criticism, guidance, and warnings for modern rulers—and their subjects.” Annette Tomarken, University of Kent. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1622-1624. “This is a first-rate collection of articles that adds significantly to the understanding of Baroque and Classicist tragedy and its politics and aesthetics within a broad European context. It explores the nuances underlying longstanding assumptions and offers exemplary original research.” Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez, University of Amsterdam. In: Bulletin of the Comediantes, Vol. 69, No 1 (2017), pp. 123-127. “[This] collection forms a strong and timely reminder of the benefits of an international and inclusive approach to literary studies.” Astrid Stilma, Canterbury Christ Church University. In: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal & Letterkunde, Vol. 133, No. 4 (September 2017), pp. 1-2.Table of ContentsIntroduction Sovereignty Frans-Willem Korsten – What Roman Paradigm for the Dutch Republic? Baroque Tragedies and Ambiguities Concerning Dominium and Torture Russ Leo – Grotius Among the Dagonists: Joost van den Vondel’s Samson, of Heilige Wraeck, Revenge and the Ius Gentium Freya Sierhuis – Performing the Medieval Past: Vondel’s Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637) Religion Howard B. Norland – Political Martyrdom at the English College in Rome James A. Parente, Jr. – Historical Tragedy and the End of Christian Humanism: Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649) Blair Hoxby – The Baroque Tragedy of the Roman Jesuits: Flavia and Beyond Ethics Emily Vasiliauskas – Mortal Knowledge: Akrasia in English Renaissance Tragedy Sarah Knight – A fabulis ad veritatem: Latin Tragedy, Truth and Education in Early Modern England Tatiana Korneeva – The Political Theatre and Theatrical Politics of Andrea Giacinto Cicognini: Il Don Gastone di Moncada (1641) Christian Biet – French Tragedy During the Seventeenth Century: From Cruelty on a Scaffold to Poetic Distance on Stage and Critical Judgment Mobility Joel Lande – German Trauerspiel and its International Nexus: On the Migration of Poetic Forms Helmer Helmers – The Politics of Mobility: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Jan Vos’ Aran and Titus and the Poetics of Empire Nienke Tjoelker – French Classicism in Jesuit Theatre Poetics of the Eighteenth Century Kirill Ospovat – Scenario of Terror: Royal Violence and the Origins of Russian Tragic Drama Index

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Book SynopsisMademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France examines questions of self-construction in the works of Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693), the wealthiest unmarried woman in Europe at the time, a pro-women advocate, author of memoirs, letters and novels, and the commissioner of four châteaux and other buildings throughout France, including Saint-Fargeau, Champigny-sur-Veude, Eu, and Choisy-le-roi. An NEH-funded project, this study explores the interplay between writing and the symbolic import of châteaux to examine Montpensier’s strategies to establish herself as a woman with autonomy and power in early modern France.Trade Review"Sophie Maríñez explores the links between la Grande Mademoiselle’s writings and her architectural patronage in this vivid portrayal of one of the century’s most important and colorful figures. Montpensier takes on new significance in a continuum that reaches from the medieval period and extends into our own. The pleasure of this well written text is enhanced by a generous number of rare illustrations." - Christine Reno, Vassar College "Mademoiselle de Montpensier was a woman of many talents and varying interests, political, literary, and artistic. By integrating Montpensier’s literary output and her patronage of the architecture, and arguing that such efforts must be seen as a coherent attempt at “self- construction” by the princess, Sophie Maríñez offers us new and intriguing insights into the personality of one of the most prominent women in 17th century France. Not the least of these perspectives is Maríñez’s placement of Montpensier in a continuum of pro-women literature and of the patronage of architecture reaching back to such powerful predecessors as Christine de Pizan and Anne of Brittany. As such, Maríñez maintains, Montpensier cannot be evaluated in a vacuum, but must be viewed as the successor of other women whose talents and determination enabled them to disregard the gender-imposed norms of their respective times. This is an important work of scholarship, a real voyage of discovery, and will be read with pleasure by anyone interested in the “splendid century” that was Louis XIV’s France." - Vincent Pitts, author of La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France (1627-1693) "Sophie Maríñez is excellent on Montpensier’s renegotiation of constructs traditionally ascribed to women: most obviously virtue, chastity, and submission to patriarchal figures. In Montpensier’s case, this process of self-construction is literalized in the commissioning of buildings, gardens, and portraits and tracked in her correspondence and memoirs." - Emma Gilby, French Studies, 72.4, Oct. 2018. « C’est une synthèse originale et bien informée que nous livre ici cette spécialiste sur une figure bien connue du XVIIe siècle, par ailleurs écrivain, la Grande Mademoiselle. L’ouvrage procède d’une optique précise et centrale dans une œuvre; il envisage celle-ci comme profondément cohérente dans sa double dimension architecturale et littéraire, unifiée par l’affirmation conquérante d’un goût féminin en matière de châteaux et par une revendication constante d’indépendance féminine. » – Jean Garapon, Université de Nantes, Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, 119.3 (2019). “This well written monograph is an original and much needed contribution to the scholarship on this neglected author and socialite. Montpensier mirrors the zeitgeist of Louis XIV’s reign but at the same time transcended her period in her view of women’s relationship to marriage, art, architecture, and sociability. The reader will find a wealth of information here on every aspect of the classical period, as it relates to a unique personality and , if not a feminist of the modern mold avant la lettre, someone who at least promoted the dignity of women as she could, using the resources she had at her disposal.” – Michael Mulryan, Christopher Newport University, Dalhousie French Studies, 112 (2018). “Maríñez traces a women’s tradition reaching back to the late medieval times: Montpensier’s writing and building projects were inspired by female models like Marguerite de Valois and Diane de Poitiers. Though some of her story has been told before, Maríñez enlarges the female anon through her readings of material images and figures, deploying in the process a literary/architectural sensibility most attractive to this reviewer.” - Barbara Woshinsky, Miami University, Early Modern Women Journal, 14.1, Fall 2019.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).Trade Review“This is a fabulous book […]. The volume is beautifully produced, featuring more than 200 excellent color illustrations. A pleasure to behold, it belongs in every academic library. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.” John J. Butt, James Madison University. In: Choice Connect, Vol. 57, No. 7 (March 2020).Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe 1 Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe 2 Supposed Ancestors 3 The Origin Legends of the European Nations 4 What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History 5 A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications Part 2: Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries 6 The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer 7 Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On the Romans, Batavians and Giants Part 3: The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic 8 From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650 9 Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland 10 The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities Conclusion Notes List of Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShakespeare as German Author, edited by John McCarthy, revisits in particular the formative phase of German Shakespeare reception 1760-1830. Following a detailed introduction to the historical and theoretical parameters of an era in search of its own literary voice, six case studies examine Shakespeare’s catalytic role in reshaping German aesthetics and stage production. They illuminate what German speakers found so appealing (or off-putting) about Shakespeare’s spirit, consider how translating it nurtured new linguistic and aesthetic sensibilities, and reflect on its relationship to German Geist through translation and cultural transfer theory. In the process, they shed new light, e.g., on the rise of Hamlet to canonical status, the role of women translators, and why Titus Andronicus proved so influential in twentieth-century theater performance. Contributors are: Lisa Beesley, Astrid Dröse, Johanna Hörnig, Till Kinzel, John A. McCarthy, Curtis L. Maughan, Monika Nenon, Christine Nilsson.Trade Review"The collection as a whole appears well-structured, coherent and highly informative and should thus be added to any future reading done by those interested in German Shakespeare Studies and/or German Translation Studies." -Form for Modern Language Studies, vol. 55, iss. 2, April 2019 "[Shakespeare as German Author] is ultimately an important and new approach to Shakespeare's reception in German culture. Shakespeare's plays are viewed as a complex case of cultural transfer in which the practices of translation, adaptation, and performances are embedded...this book [is] both rewarding and comfortable for scholars." -Peter Höyng , Emery University, in Goethe Yearbook of North America, vol. 27 (2020), pp. 374-75 "[Shakespeare as German Author] reveals the importance of early translations for the process of cultural transfer, but the chapters also chart how quickly translation becomes transformation, and the book is at its most interesting when considering the theatrical and performance contexts that move us beyond translation and towards adaptation, or even co-authorship. In doing so, the volume reveals how processes of cultural transfer not only empowered early Shakespeare reception, but continue to drive Germany’s cultural relationship with Shakespeare today." - Benedict Schofield, King's College London, in Monatshefte, vol 112, iss. 3 (2020), pp. 537-539Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors 1 The “Great Shapesphere”: German Shakespeare Reception, Cultural Transfer and Translation Theory. An Introduction  John A. McCarthy 2 Johann Joachim Eschenburgs Shakespeare zwischen Regelpoetik und Genieästhetik  Till Kinzel 3 Christoph Mvartin Wielands Hamletübersetzung und ihre Bühnenwirkung: Zu Franz von Heufelds und Friedrich Ludwig Schröders Hamlet-Adaptionen  Monika Nenon 4 Übersetzung als Dialog: Christoph Martin Wielands Ein St. Johannis Nachts-Traum und August Wilhelm von Schlegels Der Sommernachtstraum  Lisa Beesley 5 Schiller zähmt Shakespeare. Der Weimarer Macbeth (1800/1801) im Licht der Kulturtranstransfer-Forschung  Astrid Dröse 6 Dorothea Tieck und Shakespeares Macbeth: Weibliche Aspekte des Kulturtransfers  Johanna Hörnig 7 Who Owns Hamlet? Gerhart Hauptmann’s Reconstruction of the Danish Prince  Curtis L. Maughan 8 Schändung, eine “Übermalung.” Botho Strauss’ theatralische Transformation einer Übersetzung  Christine Nilsson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLes Fables de La Fontaine, relevant d’un art de l’écho savant, aménagent aussi une intertextualité interne. Leurs douze Livres regroupent des fables qui avaient déjà circulé séparément et dont la mise en série ne laisse pas de créer quelquefois de fort curieuses irisations. La Fontaine’s Fables cultivate a sophisticated art of subtle echoes. They also set up occasionally a discreet internal intertextuality: the twelve Books of the definitive edition group texts that had already circulated separately and create somewhere brief series with very surprising iridescences.Table of ContentsContents Notices sur les auteurs Résumés des articles Introduction La Fontaine au jardin des fables. Diptyques, parallèles et reflets dans le livre I de 1668  Patrick Dandrey Les diptyques facétieux du Livre III  Tiphaine Rolland Bornons ici cette carrière… La fin du Premier Recueil et les pratiques sérielles dans les fabliers pré-lafontainiens  Paul J. Smith Les Deux Amiset leur(s) double(s)  Paul Pelckmans Actes divers de la diversité : l’œuvre subtile du Livre IX  Yves Le Pestipon Daphnis et Alcimadure et Philémon et Baucis, un diptyque éthique et esthétique  Julien Bardot Fables sans animaux  Marc Escola Accouplements ambigus  Sjef Houppermans En guise d’Epilogue : La Fontaine, Rancé, Marie Du Bois et quelques autres  Paul Pelckmans

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the early modern manuals on travelling (Artes apodemicae), a new genre of advice literature that originated in the sixteenth century, when it became communis opinio among intellectuals that travelling was an important means of acquiring knowledge and experience, and that an extended tour abroad was a vital, if not indispensable part of humanist, academic and political education. In this volume, the formation of this new genre, between 1550 and 1700, is studied in its historical, social and cultural context. Furthermore, the volume examines the impact of this new genre on the acquisition and collection of knowledge in the early modern period, empirical or otherwise. Contributors: Justin Stagl, Karl Enenkel, Jan Papy, Thomas Haye, Robert Seidel, Gabor Gelléri, Bernd Roling, Harald Hendrix, Jan L. de Jong, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Johanna Luggin, Marc Laureys, and Justina Spencer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550–1700  Karl Enenkel and Jan L. de Jong PART 1: Manuals and Theoretical Reflections on the Art of Travelling 1 Ars apodemica and Socio-Cultural Research  Justin Stagl 2 Loysius’s Pervigilium Mercurii and Other Early Latin Artes Apodemicae: the Constitution of a Genre through Intertextuality  Karl Enenkel 3 Lorenz Gryll (d. 1560): a Traveller in the Service of Medical Training  Thomas Haye 4 Justus Lipsius on Travelling to Italy: From a Humanist Letter-Essay to an Oration and a Political Guidebook  Jan Papy 5 Debating the Use of Academic Travel: Early Modern Disputations De arte peregrinandi  Robert Seidel 6 Handbooks for the Courtier and Handbooks for the Traveller: Intersections of Two Forms of Early Modern Advice Literature  Gábor Gelléri 7 Through Canada with Linnaeus: the Swedish-Finnish Traveller to America Pehr Kalm and His Use of the Ars apodemica of Carl Linnaeus  Bernd Roling Part 2: Early Modern Traveller’s Guides 8 Joint Adventures: Company and Companions in Seventeenth-Century English Travelling Culture  Kerstin Maria Pahl 9 The Rise of a Proto-Tourist Infrastructure in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome and Naples  Harald Hendrix 10 Reading instead of Travelling: Nathan Chytraeus’s Variorum in Europa itinerum deliciae  Jan L. de Jong 11 Thomas Hobbes’ Journey Poem De mirabilibus Pecci (1627): a Travel Guide for Early English Domestic Tourism  Johanna Luggin Part 3: The Art of Travelling to the Ottoman Empire 12 Classical Tradition and Contemporary Experience in Hugo Favolius’s Hodoeporicon Byzantinum (1563)  Marc Laureys 13 Habits and Habillement in Seventeenth-Century Voyages: Georges de La Chappelle’s Recueil des divers portraits des principals dames de la Porte du Grand Turc  Justina Spencer Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThe Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era. Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands  Sigrun Haude Part 1: Within the War 1 Bravado, Martial Magic, and Masculine Performance in Early Modern Germany  B. Ann Tlusty 2 Discussion of the Just War in the Lutheran Funeral Sermons of the Seventeenth Century  Cornelia Niekus Moore 3 A Paper Victory Column (1664/1675): Female Authorship, Devotional Memory, and Religious Community  Lynne Tatlock 4 Event and Emplotment: “Narrativizing” the Battle of Lützen  Nicolas Detering 5 Seeking Peace, Finding War: Supplication and Negotiation in Electoral Brandenburg during the Thirty Years’ War  Evan B. Johnson 6 Negotiating the Thirty Years’ War: Anna Sophia of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1598–1659) and Her Survival Strategies  Jill Bepler 7 Artful Negotiator: Peter Paul Rubens’ Intervention in the Cause of Catholic Bavaria  Susan Maxwell Part 2: War and Periphery 8 “Make Peace, Not War”: an Anti-Propaganda Triumph in Johannes Sambucus’ Arcus aliquot triumphales et monumenta  Tamar Cholcman 9 Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital  Tobias P. Graf 10 “The Imminent Danger of the Turks”: Ottoman Expansion, Hungarian Revolt, and Habsburg Fear of War (1670–1672)  Georg B. Michels 11 Conflict and Coexistence: the Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia  Martin Christ 12 Dynastic Dislocation in the Thirty Years’ War: Lutheran Königsberg as Refuge for the Calvinist Houses of Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach  Sara Smart 13 Spoils of Knowledge: Looted Books in Uppsala University Library during the Seventeenth Century  Emma Hagström Molin Part 3: Westphalian Peace and Post-War 14 Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg  Alexander J. Fisher 15 Picturing Peace: Johann Vogel’s Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649  Mara R. Wade 16 State (De-)Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession  Stephan Sander-Faes 17 Space, Peace, and Conflict in Post-Thirty Years’ War Villages  Marc R. Forster Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first edition since its original publication of Daniel Heinsius’ Latin tragedy Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (Orange, or Liberty Wounded, 1602), with an introduction, a parallel English translation, and a commentary. Centering on the assassination of William of Orange, one of the leaders of the Dutch Revolt against King Philip II of Spain, Auriacus was Heinsius’ history drama, with which he aimed to raise Dutch drama to the level of classical drama. Highly influential, the tragedy contributed to the construction of a national identity in the Low Countries and launched Heinsius’ long career as an internationally celebrated poet and professor at Leiden University.Trade Review“The present edition is not merely a monumental study of one hitherto overlooked crucial play by a major figure in European letters. Its aesthetic vitality and political acuity open the door to a full-scale reconsideration of early modern European drama in Latin and in the vernacular languages, and further reassessment of seventeenth-century neo-Latin verse.” Nigel Smith, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction  1 Life and Work of Daniel Heinsius till 1602  2 Genesis and Printing of Auriacus and Its Performance  3 The Political-Historical Context  4 The Literary Context  5 Summary and Structure  6 Characters  7 Style  8 Metres  9 Reception of Auriacus  10 This Edition Text and Translation  Conspectus Siglorum  Daniel Heinsius, Auriacus Commentary Appendix I: Paratexts to Auriacus and Texts from the Iambi Added to the Play, and From Heinsius’ Seneca Edition (1601) Relevant for Auriacus Appendix II: Texts Regarding the Reception of Auriacus Index

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Book SynopsisJapan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship, but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies.Table of ContentsList of Figures Part 1: Preliminaries Introduction  Maria Maciejewska, Haruka Oba, Florian Schaffenrath and Akihiko Watanabe 1 Found in Translation: The Jesuit Japan Letters as a Source of Early Modern European Images of Japan  Patrick Reinhart Schwemmer 2 Christianomachia Iaponensis: The Japanese Martyr on Stage  Mirjam Döpfert Part 2: Geographical Overviews 3 Japanese Martyrs in French Jesuit Drama (Late Seventeenth–Early Eighteenth Century): Between Violence and Bienséance  Hitomi Omata Rappo 4 Titus Iapon on the Jesuit Stage in the Provincia Flandro-Belgica: Neo-Latin Intertextuality and the Economics of Jesuit Drama  Nicholas De Sutter and Goran Proot 5 Japan and the Japanese in Jesuit School Plays from the Bohemian Province of the Society of Jesus  Kateřina Bobková-Valentová and Magdaléna Jacková 6 Traces of Japan in Croatian Latin School Drama, 1600–1800  Nina Čengić and Neven Jovanović 7 Not Only Titus the Japanese: Japan and the Japanese on the Jesuit Stage in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  Monika Miazek-Męczyńska 8 Early Christian Japanese Sources of Jesuit Theater in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth  Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa Part 3: Case Studies 9 Majesty and Silence: An Honorable, Bald Old Man Named Japan  Margarida Miranda 10 The Development of Jesuit Drama on Japan in Bavaria: The Historical Context of the Play Victor, Staged in Munich in 1665  Haruka Oba 11 The Japanese Senex Iratus: The Munich Victor Play  Akihiko Watanabe

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Book SynopsisClassical Rhetoric in English, 1650 - 1800 features English translations of the era’s most cherished Greek and Roman orators, rhetorical philosophers, and rhetorical critics. The publication history reveals how a distinctive British canon emerged from selected works by Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus and Longinus. Works by these ten authors, especially Cicero and Longinus, were widely disseminated, becoming key texts in the formation of British rhetorical culture. At the core of the volume, annotated selections offer the twenty-first century reader a sampling of these classical rhetorical works in translation. The glossary of rhetorical criticism elucidates the now archaic meanings of words that enabled citizens to communicate their moral and rhetorical taste.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Part 1 Critical Introductions General Introduction  1 Prior Scholarship  2 Methods  3 The Character of Rhetorical Culture 1650–1800  4 Order of Sections Rhetorical Works by Classical Authors  1 Plato  2 Isocrates  3 Demosthenes  4 Aristotle  5 Theophrastus  6 Cicero  7 Seneca the Younger  8 Quintilian  9 Tacitus  10 Longinus Part 2 Annotated Selections Selections from Plato Selections from Isocrates Selections from Demosthenes Selections from Aristotle Selections from Theophrastus Selections from Cicero Selections from Seneca Selections from Quintilian Selections from Tacitus Selections from Longinus Part 3 Glossary Bibliography of Primary Sources Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Menno Hertzberger Encouragement Prize (Book History) In Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands, Gwendoline de Mûelenaere offers an account of the practice of producing illustrated thesis prints in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. She argues that the evolution of the thesis print genre gave rise to the creation of a specific visual language combining efficiently various figurative registers of a historical and symbolic nature. The book offers a reflection on the representation of knowledge and its public recognition in the context of academic defenses. Early Modern Thesis Prints makes a timely contribution to our understanding of early modern print culture and more specifically to the expanding field of study concerned with the role of visual materials in early modern thought.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction 1 Development of the Production of Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands  A Teaching in the Spanish Netherlands  B Development of Thesis Broadsides during the Seventeenth Century  C The Antwerp Context in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century  D Other Productions in the Southern Low Countries  E Print Run, Distribution, and Conservation of Thesis Prints 2 The Manufacture of the Thesis Engraving  A The Broadsheet Medium: Complementarity of Text and Image  B Status of the Image: From Knowledge Organization to Message Coding  C The Posters, “Ephemera”?  D Towards a “Painting-Page”: Progressive Iconization of the Margin  E Devices for Framing and Displaying Text: From Ornament to Allegory 3 The Use of Symbolic Language in Thesis Prints  A Personifications: Noetic and Encomiastic Issues  B Justitia, Academic Discipline and Imperial Virtue: Theses Addressed to Ferdinand III and His Son  C Paradoxical Formulas to Give Multiple Praise: Theses Dedicated to Leopold Wilhelm of Austria  D The Celebration of the Virgin Mary 4 Staging the Placards within the Context of Court Patronage  A Mise en abyme of the Donation  B Public Defense, a Baroque Spectacle Conclusion Catalogue of Thesis Prints Appendix  A List of Illustrations  B List of Thesis Prints by Teaching Institution  C List of Thesis Prints by Location Bibliography  A Primary Sources  B Secondary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisAfter the strikingly beautiful Peony Pavilion, how could one write about love and the ideal of emotional authenticity (qing) in the chuanqi genre? This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their comic articulations bring the qing ideal down to the mundane world of family obligations, political ambitions, commercial interests, and gender frustrations. By highlighting the crucial but understudied role that the comic plays, this book enriches our understanding of the intellectual depth and critical scope of the chuanqi genre.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking work studies the Arabic literary culture of early modern Southeast Asia on the basis of largely unstudied and unknown manuscripts. It offers new perspectives on intellectual interactions between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the development of Islam and especially Sufism in the region, the relationship between the Arabic and Malay literary traditions, and the manuscript culture of the Indian Ocean world. It brings to light a large number of hitherto unknown texts produced at or for the courts of Southeast Asia, and examines the role of royal patronage in supporting Arabic literary production in Southeast Asia.

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Book SynopsisWritten using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare reads medieval and early modern texts, exploring allegory within texts, allegorical readings of texts, and melancholy in texts. Authors studied are Langland and Chaucer, Hoccleve, on his madness, Lydgate and Henryson. Shakespeare's first tetralogy, the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III conclude this investigation of death, mourning, madness and of complaint. Benjamin's writings on allegory inspire this linking, which also considers Dürer, Baldung and Holbein and the dance of the dead motifs. The study sees subjectivity created as obsessional, paranoid, and links melancholia, madness and allegorical creation, where parts of the subject are split off from each other, and speak as wholes. Allegory and melancholy are two modes – a state of writing and a state of being - where the subject fragments or disappears. These texts are aware of the power of death within writing, which makes them, fascinating. The book will appeal to readers of literature from the medieval to the Baroque, and to those interested in critical theory, and histories of visual culture.Trade Review”…an engaging and thoughtful study.” in: Anglia, Band 123, Heft 3, 2005Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Benjamin’s Trauerspiel Chapter 1: Triumphs of Allegory: Piers Plowman Chapter 2: The Knight Sets Forth: Chaucer, Chrétien and Dürer Chapter 3: Allegory and the Madness of the Text: Hoccleve’s Complaint Chapter 4: Collecting Princes: Reading Lydgate Chapter 5: The Testament of Cresseid: Reading Henryson with Baldung Chapter 6: Signs of the Apocalypse: Shakespeare’s Henry VI Conclusion: Richard III, Mourning and Memory Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisParadigms Found is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, and for anyone interested in the diverse ways in which his plays are read and taught at the start of the twenty-first century. It traces the paradigm shift in Shakespeare studies which, beginning in the 1970s, has foregrounded the playwright’s embeddedness in the material practices and ideological constructs of his time, and focussed on the conflicts, gaps and faultlines in early modern society. The book concentrates on feminism and new historicism as the two critical schools that have brought about significant changes in Shakespeare studies, and devotes a chapter to issues in early modern culture and drama highlighted by gay scholars. Topics covered include: contrasting views on the position of Renaissance women, material feminist criticism, Renaissance attacks and defences of women, the maternal body, boy actors, myths of homosexual desire, theatrical transvestism, the role of anecdotes in new historicist practice, self-fashioning, subversion, anxiety and wonder. In tracking the shifting interests of feminist, gay and new historicist critics, Paradigms Found demonstrates the explanatory power of the new approaches, discusses their limitations and places them in the context of developments in society and the academy.Trade Review”… the selection and organisation of feminist approaches to Shakespeare in the first half of the book are excellent, as is the author’s account of bibliography related to the boy actor in chapter four. […] Given the great complexity of the endeavour, the result is highly successful and the book should become essential reading…” in: Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies 24 (2001): pp.165-168Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Reading Shakespeare as Women 2 The Turn to History in Feminist Studies 3 Maternal Subtexts 4 Gay Interventions 5 Stephen Greenblatt: the Critic as Story-Teller 6 The Pastoral of Power 7 Social Energy and Renaissance Drama 8 The Contest of Paradigms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn what sense did Shakespeare’s representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft? Was it likely to “encourage the Sword”? Did opera’s specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more than three centuries later? How valid is the parallel between 19th century opera and the voyeurism of madhouse spectacle? Was Shakespeare’s play really engaged in the project of exorcizing Queen Elizabeth’s cultural memory? What does Verdi’s chorus of Scottish refugees have to do with shifting representations of ‘the people’? These are among the questions tackled in this study. It provides the first in-depth comparison of Shakespeare’s and Verdi’s Macbeth that is written expressly from the perspective of current Shakespearean criticism whilst striving to do justice to the topic’s musicological dimension at the same time. Exploring to what extent the play’s matrix of possible readings is distinct from Verdi’s two operatic versions, the book seeks to relate such differences both to the historical contexts of the works’ geneses and to their respective medial conditions. In doing so, it pays particular attention to shifting negotiations of witchcraft, gender, madness, and kingship. The study eventually broadens its discussion to consider other Shakespearean plays and their operatic offshoots, reflecting on some possible relations between historical and medial difference.Trade Review”The book […] broadens our horizons, as it intends to, in a significant way.” in: Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, No. 3, 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preliminaries Introduction 1. Paltering in multiple senses: witchcraft, gender, madness I 2. Fantastical creatures: witchcraft, gender, madness II 3. Restoration and its discontents 4. Shakespeare, opera, difference Works cited

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Book SynopsisA décréter absurde et insensé tout ce qu’elles rejetaient, les Lumières se condamnaient bien souvent à ne pas comprendre les ressorts secrets des préjugés. Clé de voûte de la catholicité, l’autorité du pape venait du coup à figurer une énigme absolue et à la lettre impensable. Les Philosophes et leurs papes cherche, dans le prolongement d’un colloque de l’Academia Belgica de Rome en mars 2008, à faire le tour de cette énigme. Il s’intéresse assez peu à la réalité historique de la papauté du XVIIIe siècle, mais d’autant plus aux diverses imageries qu’elle suscite aussi bien dans les récits de voyage (De Brosses, Sade) que sous la plume militante des Philosophes – de l’Essai sur les moeurs de Voltaire à tel canular de pamphlétaire. On pourra découvrir ainsi que le regard des Lumières françaises sur la papauté, en dépit de sa perplexité première et/ou en raison de celle-ci, est plus mouvant et sans doute plus ambigu qu’on ne pourrait croire à première vue.Table of ContentsPhilippe Levillain & Hervé Yannou: Les papes imaginaires des Lumières françaises Paul Pelckmans: Le Dictionnaire historique et critique devant la papauté Geneviève Artigas-Menant: L’imaginaire de la papauté dans l’œuvre de Robert Challe Jan Herman: Pierre Bayle contre Jacques Le Febvre s.J.: l’infaillibilité du pape dans Bayle en petit Marc Hersant: Saint-Simon, Clément XI et la constitution Unigenitus: les Mémoires « au cœur des Ténèbres » Catherine Volpilhac-Auger: Le pape et son vizir: le pouvoir des papes chez Montesquieu Michèle Bokobza Kahan: Stratégies médiatiques du journalisme religieux politique naissant: le Pape dans les Nouvelles ecclésiastiques Letizia Norci Cagiano: La comédie était possible en 1740: le Président de Brosses et la politique culturelle des papes Erik Gatefin: La critique de l’institution papale dans les Lettres d’Italie: une dérision sans conséquence? Sylvain Menant: Le pape imaginaire d’un conte de Voltaire: La Mule du Pape Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet: « Un coin du voile fut levé… »: la politique des papes dans l’Essai sur les mœurs Laurence Macé: Les papes des Xe et XIe siècles dans l’Essai sur les mœurs: les leçons d’une édition critique Bruno Bernard: Benoît XIV (1740-1758), un pape idéal pour les Lumières? Marek Bratuń: Elie Bertrand et ses Observations sur Rome politique Stéphan Pascau: Dulaurens et ses Rêves de l’antipapiste Stéphanie Géhanne Gavoty: Le mythe des Lumières à propos d’un « anti-Lumières »: Clément XIV revu et corrigé Gianluigi Goggi: Le « gouvernement ecclésiastique » des Papes dans l’Histoire des deux Indes Hervé Yannou: Louis-Sébastien Mercier ou l’utopie d’un monde sans pape Christian Lacombe: Les papes, Juliette, ou le pouvoir des illusions dans le Voyage en Italie et l’Histoire de Juliette de Sade Mladen Kozul: Corps du pape dans les pamphlets Personalia

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Book SynopsisEtymologically speaking, the words “know” and “narrate” share a common ancestry. Making Sense in Shakespeare examines some of the ways in which this distant kinship comes into play in Shakespearean drama. The argument of the book is that at a time in European cultural history in which the problem of knowledge was a matter of intensifying philosophical concern, Shakespeare too was in his own way exploring the possibilities and shortcomings of the various interpretative models that can be applied to experience so as to make it intelligible. While modes of understanding based upon such notions as those of naturalistic causality or rational human agency are shown to be inadequate in Shakespeare’s plays, his characters often impart form and significance to their experience through what are essentially narrative means, projecting stories onto events in order to make sense of them and to direct their activity accordingly. Narrative thus plays a crucial role in the construction of meaning in Shakespeare’s plays, although at the same time, as the author emphasizes, his works are no less concerned to illustrate the perils inherent in the narrativizing strategies deployed by their protagonists which often render them self-defeating and even destructive in the end.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Cause of Thunder: Why Things Happen in Shakespeare “Patterned by that the poet here describes”: Literary Lives in Titus Andronicus Bringing Deformed Forth: Engendering Meaning in Much Ado About Nothing Causes Why and Wherefore: The Enigma of History in King Henry V “The reason of our Caesar’s death”: Mystifying Motive in Julius Caesar Snakes and Ladders: Killing Metaphors in Julius Caesar “A short tale to make”: Narrating Hamlet “After your way his tale pronounc’d”: The Appropriation of Story in Shakespeare A Sound of Thunder: The Shakespearean Cause Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an interdisciplinary work that weaves literary interpretation, legal theory, and philosophical doctrine about sex and love into a coherent mosaic in the context of two of Shakespeare’s plays: The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. In the process, the work advances literary interpretations of the plays including character studies of some of the main protagonists. The aim is partly theoretical but mostly practical: to demonstrate what we can learn about living a robustly meaningful and significant human life by taking Shakespeare’s work seriously from contemporary philosophical and legal vantage points. Shakespeare does not reveal a tightly defined moral system that he is trying to urge upon his audience. Instead, Shakespeare challenges his audience to struggle with moral complexity as they confront conflicting elements surrounding legal and moral issues presented in his work and within the souls of his characters. His issues and their conflicts are also ours. Much of Shakespeare’s work consists of raising weighty questions inextricably connected to the human condition and inviting his audience to ponder possible answers. The philosophical lessons about living our lives meaningfully and significantly that we can derive from Shakespeare are simple yet powerful.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Leonidas Donskis Acknowledgments Introduction The Merchant of Venice: Tests of Our Humanity The Merchant of Venice: The Trial and Judicial Decision Making The Merchant of Venice: Bonds Repaired Measure For Measure: Law and Order Measure For Measure: Lust and Death Measure For Measure: Law and Marriage Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisIn September of 1701, events transpired in Naples that, through frequent retellings, became popularly known as “the conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia.” Rapidly gaining fame, this apparently anonymous narrative was soon incorporated by different historians in their history of the transition years between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But who was the initial bard or narrator, the town clerk or citizen who first gave testimony of this event by creating a Latin text of the story of the Prince of Macchia? Giambattista Vico was not among the claimants to the authorship of the fabulous story that changed the future of the Kingdom of Naples. Nevertheless, four scholars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were themselves convinced, and managed to convince the intellectual world as well, that Vico, then a young teacher of rhetoric at the University of Naples, was indeed the source of this original Latin narration of this oft retold Neapolitan history. This book provides the original Latin text with a parallel translation, as well as historical context and analysis of both the text’s authorship history and the account itself.Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction by Paolo Fabiani: “Special Psychological Traits of the Prince of Macchia” The Latin Text and the Translation of The Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia The Narration in Translation The Narrator and the Authorship The Making of the Narration History in the Eighteenth Century Searching for Two Autograph Originals History of the Text of the Narration The Narrative in the Eighteenth Century The Narrative in the Nineteenth Century The Narrative in the Twentieth Century The Narrative in the Twenty-First Century Eyewitnesses and the Uncertainty of Heroism Don Luiz Francisco De La Cerda The Primary Sources of the Narration Authorities and Documents of the Narrative History and Creativity in G. B. Vico The Tree of the Story Personae and Stage Development The State Council Records César D’Avalos, Marquis Del Vasto The Viceroy and the Official Proclamations The Manifestos: F. Spinelli and B. Ceva Grimaldi Epilogue Works Cited About the Author Index of Names

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