Immagini per conoscere: Dal Rinascimento alla Rivoluzione scientifica. Fabrizio Meroi , Claudio Pagliano
behavior imitated Aristotelian and Ciceronian models. Erasmus parodies extreme Ciceronianism. Greenblatt (1984) demonstrates that authors often assumed rhetorical masks when they could not profess their beliefs freely and openly. In recognizing how writing presents "visible manifestations of collaboration and communication between practitioners, learned humanists, other universityeducated men [sic], and ruling elites" (246), Long provides important insight into the processes of scientific invention and communication. Her work deserves to be read and cited in the history of science and the history of rhetoric. As she moves forward in her scholarship, one hopes she will pursue this important line of inquiry to discover how women have also been excluded by specific textual practices and how historical authors exploited rhetorical convention to represent themselves and their constituencies in their work. BEVERLY SAUER The Johns Hopkins University