Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. Jaime Marroquín Arredondo and Ralph Bauer, eds. The Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. vi + 358 pp. $55.
spectives included. What is especially admirable is how thorough and exhaustive the accounts are, with a fine-tuned balance between fact and richly informed scholarly suggestion. When rightfully pointing to the stucco decoration as Hvězda’s main legacy, multiple iconographic possibilities are explored, rather than resorting to a facile definitive version. Multiplicity is embraced, in the spirit of the exploratory and often allegorical impulses of the period from which these stuccos stem. The Hvězda is one of the most important buildings of the Renaissance, its superlative stucco program perhaps without equal, and the history of its patronage and reception also remarkable. This excellent volume is well positioned to enable an international audience to appreciate its riches.