Occasional Publications

The First Forty Years: A Brief History of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1964-2004. James Estes (2004)
This little volume contains the first written account of the history of the CRRS from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

Early Editions of Erasmus at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto. Ed. Jacqueline Glomski and Erika Rummel. (1994)
An annotated and illustrated catalogue of one of the major collections of Erasmiana in North America and the most extensive in Canada.

Register of Sermons Preached at Paul’s Cross 1534-1642. By Millar MacLure; Rev. P. Pauls and J.C. Boswell. (1989)
An updated edition of MacLure's classic study.

Pagan Religion . By Edward Herbert; Ed. John Butler
An encyclopedic treatise on the ancient Near-Eastern and Mediterranean deities, including those of the Greeks and Romans, in the best early 17th-century tradition. . Essential for students of English prose, philosophy, history, classics and early religions. (379 pp) (1989)

Petrarch's Triumphs . Ed. K. Eisenbichler & A. Ianucci.
Twenty-eight articles dealing with this seminal work in its European context as pageantry, a fusion of the sacred and profane, as rhetoric, as a paradigm for imitation and translation, and in its relationship to drama, entries and the figurative arts.

Love & Death in the Renaissance . Eds. K. Bartlett, K. Eisenbichler, J. Liedl
Thirteen articles dealing with Renaissance ideas about love and death.

Eros & Anteros . Ed. Don Beecher & M. Ciavolella
Fourteen articles by leading scholars on such topics as love philters and magic, lovesickness and the demonologists, love as a disease of the imagination, Valla on the senses and pleasure, love and sex in The City of the Sun, and much more

Saturn from Antiquity to the Renaissance . Ed. M. Ciavolella & A. Ianucci
Ten essays covering the topic from the golden age to the Saturnalia, through Dante and the Libro de buen amor, to Saturn in Lefevre and Caxton, the paintings of Bronzino and the plays of Lope de Vega.

Lyric Poems . By Matteo Maria Boiardo; Ed. Andrea di Tomasso
This handsome clothbound book contains facing-page, Italian-English versions of the 150 sonnets, and the 30 canzoni and madrigals of Boiardo, with a full introduction and bibliography- a definitive edition.

The Science of Buffoonery . Ed. Domenico Pietropaolo
This is a collection of 20 essays (16 English, 1 French, 3 Italian), exploring textual segmentation, doubling, improvisation, the relation of the Commedia dell'Arte to adjacent genres, its role in the development of national theatrical traditions, and its revival in recent times.

Lectura Marini .Ed. Francesco Guardiani
Twenty articles in Italian by established Marino scholars take up the Adone canto by canto. Through a rich diversity of critical approache4s, the complex and multiple dimensions of this Baroque masterpiece are brought to light. The book is an experimental approach to criticism through the interplay of ideas around a single text. Essential reading for Marino scholars.

Dante Studies in the age of Vico . By Domenico Pietropaolo
A close study of Dante criticism and reception in the 18th century, a period usually considered to be indifferent to his thought and hostile to his fame. Pietropaolo seeks to invalidate this view by using a much broader corpus of materials, much of it drawn from rare editions and manuscripts of the period.