Review of A “Compromisso” for the Future: 500th Anniversary of the First Printed Edition of the Compromisso of the Confraternity of the Misericórdia

Review | Contributor(s): Ivana Elbl

Review of Tropologies: Ethics and Invention in England, c. 1350–1600

Review | Contributor(s): Dan Breen

Review of Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature

Review | Contributor(s): Frank Lacopo

Review of Janus Cornarius et la redécouverte d’Hippocrate à la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Baron

Review of Dialogus de adoratione

Review | Contributor(s): Matteo Soranzo

Review of Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City

Review | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Review of The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture

Review | Contributor(s): Dennis Ngien

Review of Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences

Review | Contributor(s): W. R. Laird

Review of Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

Review | Contributor(s): Sergius Kodera

Review of Members of His Body: Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy; Shakespeare as a Way of Life: Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness

Review | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic

Review of Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen

Review | Contributor(s): David B. Goldstein

Review of Figure di donne in età moderna. Modelli e storie

Review | Contributor(s): Mattia Zangari

Review of Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Albert Johnston

Editor’s Note

Article | Contributor(s): William R. Bowen

“My Own Worst Enemy”: Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Article | Contributor(s): Bryan Brazeau

This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early Latin translations and commentaries initially...

L’Inquiétante tradition de La Strega de Lasca. Variantes d’auteur ou réécriture éditoriale ?

Article | Contributor(s): Michel Plaisance

In the 1976 edition of Anton Francesco Grazzini’s La Strega, the author of this article found reason to suspect the textual differences between the Magl. VII 1385 autograph version and the 1582 editions published by the Giunti of Venise in 12° and in 8°. M. Durante has since sought to...

Exploring Verbal Relations between Arden of Faversham and John Lyly’s Endymion

Article | Contributor(s): Darren Freebury-Jones

Several scholars, utilizing traditional reading-based methods, have highlighted intertextual links between the anonymous domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham (1590) and John Lyly’s comedy Endymion, The Man in the Moon (1588). The authorship of Arden of Faversham is fiercely contested: Brian...

Hurried to Destruction: Reprobation in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness

Article | Contributor(s): Glenn Clark

This essay demonstrates that Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness explore important tensions in the Elizabethan understanding of the lived experience of the damned. Calvinist theologians tended to describe reprobation in terms that unintentionally suggested direct divine agency and...

“A Virgine and a Martyr both”: The Turn to Hagiography in Heywood’s Reformation History Play

Article | Contributor(s): Gina M. Di Salvo

This article considers the narrative and theatrical strategies used by Thomas Heywood to sanctify Elizabeth I as a virgin martyr saint in the remarkable, yet understudied, Reformation history play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth (ca. 1605). I...

Greengrass, Mark, project dir. The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online (TAMO)

Article | Contributor(s): Joseph L. Black