Massimo Ciavolella is a professor in the Department of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles.Patrick Coleman is a professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• IntroductionMASSIMO CIAVOLELLA AND PATRICK COLEMAN Believing and Not Believing': Shakespeare and the Archaeology of WonderPETER G. PLATTPhilosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring MuseLORNA CLYMERMarino and the MeravigliaPAOLO CHERCHII Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New WorldsPAOLO FASOLITruth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640JON R. SNYDER'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': Listening in the Early SeicentoANDREW DELL'ANTONIOFrom Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian BaroqueRONALD VROONReconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's EstherANN DELEHANTYApostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious OrderERNESTA ZITSERSelf-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On Self-Knowledge'JOHN D. LYONSThe Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de RetzMALINA STEFANOVSKAA Different Kind of Wonder? Women's Writing in Early Modern SpainLISA VOLLENDORF Contributors Index

Massimo Ciavolella is a professor in the Department of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles.Patrick Coleman is a professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• IntroductionMASSIMO CIAVOLELLA AND PATRICK COLEMAN Believing and Not Believing': Shakespeare and the Archaeology of WonderPETER G. PLATTPhilosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring MuseLORNA CLYMERMarino and the MeravigliaPAOLO CHERCHII Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New WorldsPAOLO FASOLITruth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640JON R. SNYDER'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': Listening in the Early SeicentoANDREW DELL'ANTONIOFrom Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian BaroqueRONALD VROONReconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's EstherANN DELEHANTYApostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious OrderERNESTA ZITSERSelf-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On Self-Knowledge'JOHN D. LYONSThe Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de RetzMALINA STEFANOVSKAA Different Kind of Wonder? Women's Writing in Early Modern SpainLISA VOLLENDORF Contributors Index

Massimo Ciavolella is a professor in the Department of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles.Patrick Coleman is a professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• IntroductionMASSIMO CIAVOLELLA AND PATRICK COLEMAN Believing and Not Believing': Shakespeare and the Archaeology of WonderPETER G. PLATTPhilosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring MuseLORNA CLYMERMarino and the MeravigliaPAOLO CHERCHII Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New WorldsPAOLO FASOLITruth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640JON R. SNYDER'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': Listening in the Early SeicentoANDREW DELL'ANTONIOFrom Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian BaroqueRONALD VROONReconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's EstherANN DELEHANTYApostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious OrderERNESTA ZITSERSelf-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On Self-Knowledge'JOHN D. LYONSThe Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de RetzMALINA STEFANOVSKAA Different Kind of Wonder? Women's Writing in Early Modern SpainLISA VOLLENDORF Contributors Index