Eugenio Refini is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. His interests include Renaissance poetics, rhetoric, and drama; reception of antiquity and translation studies; and the intersections of music and literature. His publications include a monograph on Alessandro Piccolomini titled Per via d'annotationi: le glosse inedite di Alessandro Piccolomini all'Ars Poetica di Orazio (2009) and several articles and book chapters on Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Latin humanism and the musical culture of early modern Italy.

• Introduction: translation as reception; 1. Taming the philosopher; 2. The master of those who know (and those who don't); 3. Family business: readying the ethics for the layman; 4. The philosopher, the humanist, the translator and the reader; 5. Abridging the philosopher(s); Conclusion: the spirit in the crystal bottle.

'This book provides an excellent case-study both for the dividends reaped from paying close attention to how the classics were read in the later medieval period and how failure to pay attention to this material risks distorting our understanding of the Renaissance.' Justin Stover, Bryn Mawr Classical Review