Renaissance Transgressions: Bibliography
Primary Texts
Students should buy their own copies of Rojas’s Celestina. You are
encouraged to buy copies of Castiglione, Rabelais and Montaigne, but
since we shall be reading extracts from these works, the relevant extracts
will also be made available in photocopy. Pico’s Oration will be available in
photocopy.
Recommended editions are indicated *
Castiglione, Baldessare. Il Cortegiano. Venice, 1528
*The Book of the Courtier, trans. George Bull. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976
--. The Book of the Courtier, trans. Sir Thomas Hoby (1561) London: Dent, 1928
--. Le Livre du courtesan, trans. Gabriel Chappuis and Alain Pons. Paris: Garnier
Flammarion, 1991 (adaptation of Chappuis’ 1580 translation)
*Montaigne, Michel de. ‘Du repentir’ (III, 2), ‘Sur des vers de Virgile’ (III, 5):
Essais, ed. Alexandre Micha. Paris: Flammarion, 1979
--. Essais, ed. Pierre Villey and V.-L. Saulnier. Paris: PUF, 2004. This edition
(minus translations for the numerous quotations) is available online:
http://artfl.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:4:4.montaigne
*--. The Complete Essays, trans. Michael Screech. London: Penguin, 1993 (if
you don’t read French)
--. Essays, trans. John Folio (1603). London: Dent, 1965 (Everyman Library)
*Rabelais, François. Gargantua, ed. Mireille Huchon. Paris: Gallimard ‘Folio’,
2007
*--. Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. M. A. Screech. London: Penguin, 2006 (if
you don’t read French)
--. Gargantua, trans. Urquhart and Le Motteux. London: David Campbell
(Everyman Library), 1994 (unreliable but fantastic 17th-century translation,
with an excellent introduction by Terence Cave)
*Rojas, Fernando de. Celestina, ed. Dorothy Sherman Severin. Warminster: Aris
& Phillips, 1987 (with translation by James Mabbe, 1611)
Celestine, or the Tragick-Comedie of Calisto and Melibea, trans. James Mabbe,
ed. Guadalupe Martínez Lacalle. London: Tamesis, 1972. (Mabbe’s
manuscript version, 1603-1611)
Celestina or the Tragi-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea, trans. by James Mabbe...
Also an Interlude of Calisto and Melebea, ed. H. Warner Allen. London,
1908 (Mabbe’s printed ed. 1631)
La Celestine in the French Translation of 1578 by Jacques de Lavardin, ed.
Denis L. Drysdall. London: Tamesis, 1974
Celestine. A Critical Edition of the First French Translation (1527), ed. Gerard J.
Brault. Detroit, 1963
An Edition of the First Italian Translation of the ‘Celestina’ [by Alfonso Ordóñez,
1506], ed. K. Kish. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973
Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man, in Paul F. Grendler (ed.), An
Italian Renaissance Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1987), pp.
377-411
See the Brown University website for the Latin text, English and Italian
translations, and some good critical tools:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/
Secondary Reading
General:
Atlas of the Renaissance, ed. C. Black et al. London: Cassell, 1993
Bakhtin, Mikhail, Rabelais and His World, trans. Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 1984 [Russian original 1965]
Burckhardt, Jacob, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S. G. C.
Middlemore. London: Phaidon Press, 1944. German original 1860. Extracts
in An Italian Renaissance Reader, pp. 134-66
Burke, Peter, The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1998
--. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1994
Cassirer, Ernst, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall Jr., The
Renaissance Philosophy of Man. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1963
Dentith, Simon, Bakhtinian Thought: An Introductory Reader. London: Routledge,
1995
During, Simon, The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1993 (useful
introduction)
Eagleton, Terry, Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso, 1991, esp. chapters
1-2
Ferguson, Wallace K., The Renaissance in Historical Thought. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 1948
Greenblatt, Steven, and Giles Gunn, ed., Redrawing the Boundaries: The
Transformation of English and American Literary Studies. New York: MLA,
1992 (see particularly the chapter on adopting the term ‘Early Modern’ to
replace ‘Renaissance’)
Kelly-Gadol, Joan, "Did Women Have a Renaissance?", in Becoming Visible:
Women in European History, ed. Renate Bridenthal et al., 2nd ed. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1987, pp. 175-201
Kerrigan, William, and Gordon Braden, The Idea of the Renaissance. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989 (esp. chs 1, 2, 4 & 7)
Ruggiero, Guido, The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in
Renaissance Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985
Stallybrass, Peter, and Allon White, ‘Introduction’ to The Politics and Poetics of
Trangression. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986
Pico and Courtier
Burke, Peter, The Fortunes of the ‘Courtier’. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania
State University Press
Dougherty, M. V. (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Kerrigan and Braden, ‘Pico della Mirandola and Renaissance Ambition’, in
Kerrigan and Braden, The Idea of the Renaissance (see above)
Rebhorn, Wayne A., Courtly Performances: Masking and Festivity in
Castiglione’s ‘Book of the Courtier’. Detroit: Wayne State University Press,
1978
Celestina
The basic bibliographical research tool is the journal Celestinesca, which
appears twice a year with an update of current publications on Rojas and his
work.
Bataillon, M., La Célestine selon Fernando de Rojas. Paris, 1961
Corfis, Ivy A., and Joseph T. Snow, Fernando de Rojas and ‘Celestina’:
Approaching the Fifth Centenary. Madison: HSMS, 1993
Deyermond, Alan, A Literary History of Spain, I: The Middle Ages. London: Benn,
1972
---, Edad media: volume 1 of Historia crítica de la literatura española. Barcelona:
Crítica, 1980
Gilman, Stephen, La Celestina: arte y estructura (1956). Madrid: Taurus, 1974
(English version available]
Green, Otis H., ‘The Celestina and the Inquisition’, Hispanic Review, 15 (1947),
211-16
Scoles, Emma, ‘Nota sulla prima traduzione italiana della Celestina’, Studii
Romanzi, 33 (1961), 157-217
Shipley, George, ‘Concerting Through Conceit: Unconventional Uses of Sickness
Images in La Celestina’, Modern Language Review, 70 (1975), 324-332
Snow, Joseph T., ‘Celestina’ by Fernando de Rojas: An Annotated Bibliography
of World Interest, 1930-85. Madison: HSMS, 1985
Weiss, Julian (ed.), Studies for Peter E. Russell on his Eightieth Birthday,
Special issue of Celestinesca, 17.2 (Fall, 1993) (essays by Lawrance,
Severin, Fothergill-Payne, Burke)
Rabelais
Berrong, Richard M., Rabelais and Bakhtin: Popular Culture in Gargantua and
Pantagruel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986
Braunrot, Bruno, François Rabelais: A Reference Guide, 1950-90. New York: G.
K. Hall, 1994
Cave, Terence, The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French
Renaissance. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979
La Charité, Raymond, Rabelais’ Incomparable Book: Essays on his Art.
Lexington: French Forum, 1986
Schwartz, Jerome, Irony and Ideology in Rabelais: Structures of Subversion.
Cambridge: CUP, 1990
Screech, M. A., Rabelais. London: Duckworth, 1979
Montaigne
Cave, Terence, The Cornucopian Text (see Rabelais reading above)
--. How to Read Montaigne. London: Granta, 2007
Garavini, Fausta, Monstres et chimères: Montaigne, le texte, et le fantasme,
trans. Isobel Picon. Paris: Champion, 1993
Kritzman, Lawrence, Destruction/Découverte: le fonctionnement de la rhétorique
dans les ‘Essais’ de Montaigne. Lexington: French Forum, 1980
Langer, Ulrich (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne. Cambridge
University Press, 2005
Mathieu-Castellani, Gisèle, Montaigne: l’écriture de l’essai. Paris: PUF, 1988
Starobinski, Jean, Montaigne en movement. Paris: Gallimard, 1982; trans. Arthur
Goldhammer, University of Chicago Press, 1985
Tournon, André, ‘Route par ailleurs’ : le ‘nouveau langage’ des ‘Essais’. Paris:
Champion, 2006