Renaissance Now!

Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork. His other publications include A Mattress Maker’s Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza (2014), Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (2002), Science and the Marketplace in Early Modern Italy (2001) and, as editor, A Companion to Renaissance Astrology (2014).

• Contents: Sheila Barker: The Drowning Man in Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina – Nicola Gardini: Osiris and the End of the Renaissance – Heinrich Lang: Renaissance Economies: Markets, Tastes, Representations – Maximilian Schuh: Making Renaissance Humanism Popular in the Fifteenth-Century Empire: The studia humanitatis at the University of Ingolstadt – Thomas F. Earle: The Two Adamastores: Diversity and Complexity in Camões’s Lusiads – Tom Conley: Renaissance que voicy: Torque in a Tower (Reading Montaigne, Essais, III, iii) – David Edwards: Fashioning Service in a Renaissance State: The Official Journals of the Elizabethan Viceroys in Ireland – José Montero Reguera: Cervantes and Renaissance: A Chapter in the History of Hispanic Studies – Chris Barrett: The Map You Cannot See: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Navigation – Brendan Dooley: Keep This Secret! Renaissance Knowledge between Freedom and Restraint – Federico Barbierato: Popular Atheism and Unbelief: A Seventeenth-Century Venetian Point of View – Paul R. Wright: The Raw and the Cooked: The Renaissance as Cultural Trope in Times of Crisis – Joseph S. Freedman: The History of ‘Scientific Method’ (methodus scientifica) in the Early Modern Period and its Relevance for School-Level and University-Level Instruction in Our Time – Brendan Dooley: Digital Renaissance.