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Patricia H. Labalme, Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice . Edited by Benjamin G. Kohl (Variorum Collected Studies Series CS943). Ashgate, Farnham 2010, xv + 243 pp. ISBN 978 0 754 66861 9. £70.

Patricia H. Labalme, Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice . Edited by Benjamin G.... Book Reviews / CHRC () ­ Patricia H. Labalme, Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice. Edited by Benjamin G. Kohl [Variorum Collected Studies Series CS]. Ashgate, Farnham , xv + pp. ISBN . . Patricia Hochschild Labalme died in . She is remembered in the introduction to this volume by Benjamin G. Kohl who manages to convey the mixture of personal charm, urbanity, elegance, and learning which delighted so many of her students. Venice, by which she was always fascinated, remained her main object of study, and the twelve essays in this Variorum collection give a good idea of her interests. There are various translations of documents--a letter in Greek from Guarino Guarini to the poet Leonardo Giustiniani; the will of the statesman and man of letters Bernardo Giustiniani; a letter on worldly honour from Ermolao Barbaro the Younger to Marco Dandolo, and extracts from the diaries of Marin Sanudo. The other articles, which include `Personality and politics in Venice: Pietro Aretino' and `Holy patronage, holy promotion: the cult of saints in fifteenth-century Venice' on the cults of St Mark, St Theodore, and St Nicholas of Myra, are on various aspects of Venetian life and culture from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

Patricia H. Labalme, Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice . Edited by Benjamin G. Kohl (Variorum Collected Studies Series CS943). Ashgate, Farnham 2010, xv + 243 pp. ISBN 978 0 754 66861 9. £70.

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Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews / CHRC () ­ Patricia H. Labalme, Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice. Edited by Benjamin G. Kohl [Variorum Collected Studies Series CS]. Ashgate, Farnham , xv + pp. ISBN . . Patricia Hochschild Labalme died in . She is remembered in the introduction to this volume by Benjamin G. Kohl who manages to convey the mixture of personal charm, urbanity, elegance, and learning which delighted so many of her students. Venice, by which she was always fascinated, remained her main object of study, and the twelve essays in this Variorum collection give a good idea of her interests. There are various translations of documents--a letter in Greek from Guarino Guarini to the poet Leonardo Giustiniani; the will of the statesman and man of letters Bernardo Giustiniani; a letter on worldly honour from Ermolao Barbaro the Younger to Marco Dandolo, and extracts from the diaries of Marin Sanudo. The other articles, which include `Personality and politics in Venice: Pietro Aretino' and `Holy patronage, holy promotion: the cult of saints in fifteenth-century Venice' on the cults of St Mark, St Theodore, and St Nicholas of Myra, are on various aspects of Venetian life and culture from

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