Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 2006
Dennis Looney and Deanna Shemek, eds. Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 286. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. xii + 484 pp. index. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $50. ISBN: 0-86698-329-5. Why Phaeton? According to one version, Helios's miscreant offspring wrecked the family vehicle by crashing into the Po River near Ferrara. This provided local humanists and artists with an offer they could not refuse. From their pens and palettes poured one panegyric after another linking the city...
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