A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

In this latest addition to the Blackwell’s Companions series a selection of essays covers themes chosen by the editor that have been used to re‐think the Renaissance period. Traditional scholarship has been combined with recent thinking to provide a thought provoking and at times provocative volume.

Ruggiero’s introduction provides the reader with a very brief overview of the concept of the “Renaissance dream” and he states that the ultimate goal of the volume is to create a vision of the period that is “useful, meaningful and pleasing” (p. 3). Ruggiero continues his introduction with a discussion of what he considers...