Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice. Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman, eds. Exh. Cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. 294 pp. $65.
Latin literature, the history of humanism, and the changing knowledge practices of the European Renaissance. On the whole, they display an admirable degree of cohesion, building on each other clearly. In addition to the many points of intersection noted by the authors and editors, readers will notice repeated, though largely unexplored, connections between encyclopedism and libraries, which appear in quoted primary sources as both metaphors and real spaces. This volume is another happy reminder of how much we still have to learn about this exciting and important period of history and of how well equipped the scholarly community is to undertake this ongoing, perhaps even encyclopedic, enterprise.