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.
