Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s ...

George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in ...

Proctor is a former fellow of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. He is also a former fellow of the National Humanities Institute at Yale ...