Pietro Bembo: Lover, Linguist, Cardinal (review)
analysis of the theoretical arguments and in their scrupulous attention to sources. Together they stand as a well-conceived guide to material that was not easily classified or theorized. I must add that María José Vega’s sensitive introduction does more than introduce the volume; it offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern lyric and draws our attention, above all, to the importance of the precepts on style by Hermogenes and Demetrius and to the lyric as a social and cultural event, intimately linked as it was to music and recitation at court. The volume has a useful index and a current bibliography. MARY E. BARNARD Pennsylvania State University, University Park