Gifts in return: essays in honour of Charles Dempsey

Contents

Poetic genealogies and the weight of style: Boccaccio and the early Italian painters / C. Jean Campbell -- Giotto's allegorical painting of the Kingdom of Naples / Thomas Willette -- Mantegna's hagiography / Stephen J. Campbell -- Nofri di Palla Strozzi: amateur painter and friend of Mantegna / Carl Brandon Strehlke -- Looking for pastoral in Lorenzo de' Medici's Florence / Jane Tylus -- Tadpoles, caterpillars, and mermaids: Piero di Cosimo's poetic nature / Giancarlo Fiorenza -- Eloquence and intertextuality in the Sistine Chapel / Kim E. Butler -- The dispute over the Immaculate Conception by Guillaume de Marcillat at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin / Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel -- "... viri studiosi et scientifici ..." Pietro Antonio Cecchini, Michelangelo, and the nobility of sculptors in Rome / Melinda Schlitt -- Reading Pliny in Francisco de Holanda's Roman dialogues / Elena Calvillo -- A new document related to Correggio's Noli me tangere / Giovanna Perini Folesani -- Bare feet, humility, and the passion of Christ in the cults of Mary Magdalene and Carlo Borromeo in seicento Rome / Pamela M. Jones -- Illness, invention, and truth in Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin / Frances Gage -- Ut icona poesis: Gabriello Chiabrera, Bernardo Castello, and the Sacro Volta of Genoa / Peter M. Lukehart -- Poussin, Egypt, and the destiny of Rome / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Malvasia's anti-Vasarian history of art: a tradition, not a rebirth / Elizabeth Cropper -- Gregorio Lazzarini's Judith and Holofernes: decapitation, Islam, and the Venetian state / Karen-edis Barzman.