Cosmopoiesis. The Renaissance Experiment.(Book Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 2003| | Copyright

Giuseppe Mazzotta. Cosmopoiesis. The Renaissance Experiment. (Toronto Italian Studies.) Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xvi + l06 pp. bibl. $35 (el), $16.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8020-3551-5 (cl), 0-8020-8421-4 (pbk).

In this wonderful collection of essays, initially presented as a series of special lectures at the University of Toronto, Giuseppe Mazzotta considers the Renaissance preoccupation with world making and how that preoccupation is treated and reflected in several pivotal texts of the period. As Mazzotta points our in the preface,

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