Rabelais'sown day. Richard Cooper, 'Leslecturesitaliennesde Rabelais:une mise au point', an extensive, readablesurveyof workin this area, showsclearlyhow little is known for sure. Giulio Ferroni, 'Le pecore e la tempesta: qualche appunto su Folengo e Rabelais', brings out, rather repetitiously,divergences between the two authors.Daniel Menager, 'Rabelais et la memoire', deals in a clear, measuredway with the multifarious and sometimes contradictory views on remembering and forgettingthat appearin Pantagruel and Gargantua. Jean Dupebe, 'Rabelais,medecin astrologue du Pantagruel au TiersLivre',traces Rabelais's changing attitudes to astrologyand Ficinianplatonism. Though one might query some readings,such as the attribution to Ulrich Gallet (Gargantua, Chapter 31) of 'une conception tout astrologiquede l'existence' (p. 88), thisis an interestingarticle. Under the heading, 'Table ronde: deux editions du TiersLivre',come two reciprocal reviews:Mireille Huchon 'Le TiersLivreedite par Jean Ceard [Pochotheque , I994]' andJean Ceard, 'Le TiersLivre edite par Mireille Huchon [Pleiade, I994]'. Perhaps this arrangement stimulated general discussion but, if so, the proceedings do not record it. Thus, while these expert and courteous reviews do highlightdivergencesbetween the editions,theexerciseseemsslightlyunproductive. Finally, Marie-Luce Demonet argues, in 'Rabelais metalinguiste', that the Briefre Declaration is lessa glossaryof the Quart Livre than a text servingto sharpenthebook's anti-papalsatire. In summary,though it may disappointsome readersthatthevolume isnot wholly about the TiersLivre, the overallqualityof the papersis a substantialcompensation. UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE IAN R. MORRISON Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: TheParagone between Poetsy andPainting intheWorks ofPierre deRonsard. By ROBERTO E. CAMPO. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 257) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. I998. 277 pp. Roberto Campo hasworkedon aspectsof thissubjectfor severalyears,and material from some earlier articles is reproduced here, but this book, in which he traces Ronsard'sattitudeto the rivalclaimsto artisticprimacy of the 'sisterarts'of poetry and painting, is not simply a synthesis of earlier work. In the first section, 'The Paragone in Focus', Campo establishes the historical context, examining earlier views on the subject by philosophers and theorists from Plato and Aristotle to LeonardodaVinci, includingalsoAquinas,Dante, and the neo-Platonists(although he admits that Ronsard's sources can be only surmised, since he never actually names them). Thereafter Campo analyses in two separate chapters Ronsard's views on the artistic merits of narrative painting relative to those of verse narrative, and his attitude to portraitpainting relative to verse portraiture.While the importance of earlierstudiesby, for example, MargaretMcGowan (IdealForms intheAgeofRonsard (Berkeley:University of CaliforniaPress, 1985)), FrancoiseJoukovsky(LeBelObjet: LesParadis artificiels delaPleiade (Paris:Champion, 1991)), and FrangoisLecercle (La Chimere deZeuxis:Portrait poetique etportrait peintenFrance et enItalieaila Renaissance (Tubingen: Narr, I987)), is acknowledged, Campo stresses that the perspective adopted here, involvingthe examination of severaldifferentpoetic forms,including odes, elegies, sonnets, hymns, and others, is more comprehensive than anything hitherto attempted. In the chapter on narrativehe analyses in detail a number of passages of ekphrastic verse, some familiar and some less well known, and ofpassagesinwhich Ronsarddiscussesthe relativeskillsof painterandpoet, leading Rabelais'sown day. Richard Cooper, 'Leslecturesitaliennesde Rabelais:une mise au point', an extensive, readablesurveyof workin this area, showsclearlyhow little is known for sure. Giulio Ferroni, 'Le pecore e la tempesta: qualche appunto su Folengo e Rabelais', brings out, rather repetitiously,divergences between the two authors.Daniel Menager, 'Rabelais et la memoire', deals in a clear, measuredway with the multifarious and sometimes contradictory views on remembering and forgettingthat appearin Pantagruel and Gargantua. Jean Dupebe, 'Rabelais,medecin astrologue du Pantagruel au TiersLivre',traces Rabelais's changing attitudes to astrologyand Ficinianplatonism. Though one might query some readings,such as the attribution to Ulrich Gallet (Gargantua, Chapter 31) of 'une conception tout astrologiquede l'existence' (p. 88), thisis an interestingarticle. Under the heading, 'Table ronde: deux editions du TiersLivre',come two reciprocal reviews:Mireille Huchon 'Le TiersLivreedite par Jean Ceard [Pochotheque , I994]' andJean Ceard, 'Le TiersLivre edite par Mireille Huchon [Pleiade, I994]'. Perhaps this arrangement stimulated general discussion but, if so, the proceedings do not record it. Thus, while these expert and courteous reviews do highlightdivergencesbetween the editions,theexerciseseemsslightlyunproductive. Finally, Marie-Luce Demonet argues, in 'Rabelais metalinguiste', that the Briefre Declaration is lessa glossaryof the Quart Livre than a text servingto sharpenthebook's anti-papalsatire. In summary,though it may disappointsome readersthatthevolume isnot wholly about the TiersLivre, the overallqualityof the papersis a...