Is the Renaissance an aesthetic category?(The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 & Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment)(Book Review) From: Shakespeare Studies | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Falco, Raphael | COPYRIGHT 2003 Associated University Presses. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 By William J. Bouwsma New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000

Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment By Giuseppe Mazzotta Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001

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Intellectual history flourishes in the gap between continuity and discontinuity, between the unity of thought and its disjuncture. Whether talking about turning points or paradigm shifts, the intellectual historian is obliged to hig...