A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity by scholar and critically acclaimed author, Ramie Targoff.

For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne’s works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to…

This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a leading Petrarchist poet, and an important figure in the…