Essays based on a conference held in 2007 at the University of Leeds.
First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in print format.
1. Swarming with hermits : religious friendship in Renaissance Italy, 1490-1540 / Stephen Bowd -- 2. Manuscript collections of spiritual poetry in sixteenth-century Italy / Antonio Corsaro -- 3. Literary production in Florentine Academy under the first Medici Dukes : reform, censorship, conformity? / Abigail Brundin -- 4. Pontormo's lost frescoes in San Lorenzo, Florence : a reappraisal of their religious content / Chrysa Damianaki -- 5. Defining genres : the survival of mythological painting in counter-reformation Venice / Tom Nichols -- 6. The representation of suffering and religious change in the early cinquecento / Harald Hendrix -- 7. Aretino, Titian, and 'La Humanità di Cristo' / Raymond B. Waddington -- 8. Varieties of experience : music and reform in Renaissance Italy / Iain Fenlon -- 9. Church reform and devotional music in sixteenth-century Rome : the influence of lay confraternities / Noel O'Regan -- 10. Liturgy as a mode of theological discourse in Tasso's late works / Matthew Treherne