The work reads like a good novel, but is a very scholarly production, evidence of immense research ... we have reason to be grateful to this author for putting his tremendous erudition at our disposal in this volume
Formerly Professor of English, University of Urbino, Italy; Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas, University of Leiden, Holland, since 1986; Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation, University of Amsterdam, since 1987