Conveying the Renaissance: A Tribute to Charles S. Ross provides answers to at once timely and enduring questions: How did literary works convey new, distinctive ideas and dynamics in the Renaissance era? How have Renaissance literary works, in turn, been conveyed into various media through today? By what authorial and authorizing agents and forces—authors and artists, international politics, performers, readers, technologies, and translators—have these works and the ideas and dynamics of the Renaissance era been conveyed? And for what kinds of audiences, imagined and actual? The answers show the vitality of Ludovico Ariosto, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Claudio Monteverdi, Cervantes, Milton, Shakespeare, Tasso, and other Renaissance authors in their immediate contexts and through the centuries in cinema, landscaping, modernist lyric, music, puppetry, TV, and visual art. The eight main chapters are case studies drawing out cultural dynamics, topics, and media that deserve renewed attention or that have received no attention despite their significance.

ANGELICA DURAN is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She is the author of two books, most recently Milton among Spaniards (2020), as well as editor or coeditor of nine books, including Global Bunyan and Visual Arts and Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care, both published in 2025. 

Acknowledgements                                                                                                                 
Foreword, Charles S. Ross

Introduction: A Manifesto for and Manifestation of the Renaissance, Angelica Duran
    
Part 1. Conveying within Literary Networks
Chapter 1. Knighthood and Banditry in Orlando innamorato and Don Quixote, David Quint
Chapter 2. Marriage Diplomacy in The Tempest and on an Island between Naples, Tunis, and Peru, John Watkins 
Chapter 3. Reading Ariosto with(in) Milton with(in) Borges, Angelica Duran
        
Part 2. Conveying with New Artistic Media
Chapter 4. Affective and Acoustic Conveyance from Tasso to Monteverdi, Kate Driscoll    
Chapter 5. The Sarina Family’s Adaptations of Orlando innamorato and Orlando furioso for Hand Puppet Theater in Northern Italy, Jo Ann Cavallo
Chapter 6. Hospitality and Habitation in Westworld’s Appropriation of The Tempest, L. Monique Pittman
Chapter 7. Gifts, Commodities, and Social Customs from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to Lowery’s The Green Knight, David Houston Wood
Chapter 8. Spenser’s Problem of Modernity and Anglo-American Landscapes, Jason Lotz
        
Epilogue, Jane Tylus
    
Contributors
Index