Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. His numerous publications include A Mattress Maker's Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza (2014), Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (2002) and, as author/ editor, The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (2010).

Angelica’s Book has considerable charm, and may lure that wide audience of educated but nonspecialist readers that scholarly books seek but often miss … the prose has a freshness that academic histories tend to lack … an intriguing and provocative narrative.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Straparola and Late Renaissance Publishing2. The Trials of Literature in an Age of Censorship3. A Woman’s Hand4. Angelica and her Book5. Reading and Gender6. Book Conservation and the Digital TurnConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. His numerous publications include A Mattress Maker's Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza (2014), Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (2002) and, as author/ editor, The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (2010).

Angelica’s Book has considerable charm, and may lure that wide audience of educated but nonspecialist readers that scholarly books seek but often miss … the prose has a freshness that academic histories tend to lack … an intriguing and provocative narrative.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Straparola and Late Renaissance Publishing2. The Trials of Literature in an Age of Censorship3. A Woman’s Hand4. Angelica and her Book5. Reading and Gender6. Book Conservation and the Digital TurnConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. His numerous publications include A Mattress Maker's Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza (2014), Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (2002) and, as author/ editor, The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (2010).

Angelica’s Book has considerable charm, and may lure that wide audience of educated but nonspecialist readers that scholarly books seek but often miss … the prose has a freshness that academic histories tend to lack … an intriguing and provocative narrative.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1. Straparola and Late Renaissance Publishing2. The Trials of Literature in an Age of Censorship3. A Woman’s Hand4. Angelica and her Book5. Reading and Gender6. Book Conservation and the Digital TurnConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex