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| The religious confraternities of high renaissance Florence : crisis or continuity? | 9 | |
| The death of a heretic, Florence 1389 | 33 | |
| Cultivating charisma : Elisabeth de Ranfaing and the Medailliste cult in seventeenth-century Lorraine | 55 | |
| Affective devotion and the early Dominicans : the case of Fra Angelico | 87 | |
| Art history and the resistant presence of a saint - the chiesa vecchia frescoes at Rome's Tor de' Specchi | 119 | |
| Separating the men from the boys : masculinities in early Quattrocento Florence and Donatello's Saint George | 147 | |
| Henry VII's 'miraculum orbis' : royal commemoration at Westminster Abbey 1500-1700 | 177 | |
| Gardens of love in Venetian painting of the Quattrocento | 201 | |
| The witch of Endor : transformations of a biblical necromancer in early modern Europe | 235 | |
| Iustus ut palma florebit : Pier Soderini and Florentine justice | 263 | |
| Personal literary anthologies in Renaissance Florence : re-presenting current events to conform to Christian, classical and civic ideals | 277 | |
| The fear of schism | 297 | |
| The literary career of Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) : the constraints of gender and the writing woman | 325 | |
| Style and substance in the early writings of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | 343 | |
| An insatiable appetite for news : Isabella d'Este and a Bolognese correspondent | 375 | |
| Unheard voices from the Medici family archive in the time of Lorenzo de' Medici | 389 | |
| The younger Castracani | 405 |
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Joseph Krzeminski
reviewed Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe on August 13, 2019
Rituals, Images, and Words
I first heard of Joan of Naples - under her "real" name, Giovanna - through Marjorie Bowen's historical novel, "The Sword Decides!" It captured my imagination, so - having also enjoyed two other volumes in Alexandre Dumas's Celebrated Crimes series - I expected great things from this.
Well, a few parts here and there engaged me, but on the whole I found this a hard slog. Problems I had with it is having countless characters thrust upon me, extensive sections of dialogue that sound unnatural, and condensed third-person paragraphs that drag on far too long.
I feel this would've worked better as full-blown historical fiction or as a "proper" biography. This is a biography written as though it was historical fiction. Although this worked fine with other episodes in the series, it fell flat with "Joan of Naples".
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