We are delighted to announce that the summer 2024 issue (77.2) of Renaissance Quarterly has been published online and includes the following:

Articles

Perugino’s Sistine Chapel Altarpiece: The Papal Liturgy and Pope Sixtus IV’s Promotion of the Marian Cult

Shannon E. Kuziow

Infamy within Sight: Making and Unmaking Sambenitos in the Early Modern Iberian World

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet 

Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

Riccio, Ruzante, and the Localized Languages of Renaissance Bronze 

Raymond Carlson

Hunted to Extinction: Finding Lost Species in the World of Bernard Palissy (1510–89)

Jeremy Robin Schneider

“Inventions Invented against Me”: The Five Catherines of Aragon at the Blackfriars Trial

Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast 

Oleum Olivarum: Stradano’s Engraving and the New Art of Olive-Oil Making in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany

Anca-Delia Moldovan

Inferno, Purgatory, and Gehinnom: Shared Cosmographic Spaces in Italian-Jewish Descriptions of Hell

Avi Kallenbach

Featured Reviews

Humanism, Universities, and Jesuit Education in Late Renaissance Italy. Paul F. Grendler. History of Early Modern Educational Thought 4. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xiv + 518 pp. $174.

Reviewed by Camilla Russell

Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France: Across the Channel. Garritt Van Dyk. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 214 pp. €95. 

Reviewed by Andrzej K. Kuropatnicki

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race. Ayanna Thompson, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xiii + 294 pp. $30.99.

Reviewed by Jareema Hylton

Gendered Touch: Women, Men and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern Europe. Francesca Antonelli, Antonella Romano, Paolo Savoia, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xiv + 306 pp. $191.

Reviewed by Natalie Tomas

Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London. Laura Gowing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. x + 276 pp. $39.99.

Reviewed by Mabel Winter

And 48 book reviews

Please note that RQ's publisher, Cambridge University Press, has enabled free access to all articles published since January 1, 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through December 31, 2024.