The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450–1600. Jonathan J. G. Alexander. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xi + 444 pp. $75.
light a plethora of less well-known codices. It also offers a new way of thinking about the materiality of medieval books and how they acquired their present forms. If the prose is sometimes a little repetitive in emphasizing the contexts and functions of parchment paintings, it is nevertheless a fascinating analysis of the intersecting lives of books, texts, images, paintings, readers, and communities.