Luxury is one of the key words of our time, driving a multimillion dollar global industry, and
used ubiquitously to describe exclusive objects and aspirational lifestyles. However …

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western
culture. In her elegant new introduction, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic …

India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian
representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th …

An illuminating study of early modern efforts to regulate sound in women's residential
institutions, and how the noises of city life—both within and beyond their walls—defied such …

This article offers a close analysis of three neo-Latin poems from a larger cycle of verse
dedicated in 1511 to the Spanish cardinal Bernardino de Carvajal (1456-1523) by the Italian …

In the Early Modern period-as both reformed and Catholic churches strove to articulate
orthodox belief and conduct through texts, sermons, rituals, and images-communities …

This dissertation presents an extensive introduction to the Summa of St Antonin (Antoninus,
Antonino) of Florence and his teaching on justice in buying and selling. It also presents, for …

This article re-examines the Baroncelli Chapel's decorative programme, which culminates in
Giotto's Coronation of the Virgin, the most musically accomplished Trecento altarpiece, and …

AT THE BEGINNING OF A LONG SERMON on the virtues of the Virgin Mary, part of a cycle
of sermons for Lent delivered in Siena at the Piazza del Campo in 1427, the Franciscan …

Resumen Theorizing the Laurentian Library's vestibule ornamentation, particularly the
ornamental antithesis that displaces and perplexes, as early modern architectural rhetoric …