Catalogue of the Earl of Crawford's "Speculum Romanae magnificentiae," now in the Avery Architectural Library

William Parsons (1800–67), third Earl of Rosse, was responsible for building in 1845 the largest telescope of his time, nicknamed the 'Leviathan'. It enabled the Earl to make unpre...

This chapter argues for the prevalence and importance of catalogues in the poems of the Cycle, discussed in light of several new studies of the epic catalogue. Some inset narrative...

The chapter contains the analysis of the so-called ‘Catalogue of Heroines’ in which the idea of the ‘poetics of Hades’ is fully explained through the discussion of the narratives o...

A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning. Much h...