The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

“The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry”. This summary amid the Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is an opening to what is essentially a scholarly book rather than a popular response or impulse buy publication. The volume was conceived with advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in mind, a teaching aid and mainly with an American hue as is revealed by contemporary references and American English. Furthermore, it was 15 years in the growing. The book holds 17 tightly presented and readable pieces by as many writers. The used term...