The Cambridge Companion to Titian (review)
world around him and inspired the imagination of his audience and his followers. Pietro Bembo put it best when, in his 1505 letter to Isabella d’Este, he wrote that Bellini was accustomed “to wander at will in pictures [. . .] so that they can satisfy him as well as the beholder” (121, n. 134). Used in the classroom, the Cambridge volume should not only expand our understanding of Bellini as a consummate poet, but it also offers to the specialist compelling directions for future Bellini scholarship. APRIL OETTINGER University of Hartford