Garcilaso De La Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

‘A vibrant, truly scholarly study that deserves pride of place in any collection (library or personal)… Essential.’

- K.M Sibbald (Choice Magazine vol 52:12:2015)

‘Barnard’s studies of Garcilaso’s Naples period are excellent approaches to his politics and his representations of emotional states…. Barnard’s book is worthy of careful attention of anyone interested in Renaissance verse.’

- Eric Clifford Graf (Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016)

‘Barnard’s book will prove to be of great interest and benefit to students of early modern poetry by offering a timely exploration of how objects allow a poetic speaker to constitute himself as a subject.’

- Felipe Valencia (Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature vol 71:02:2017)

‘This book is an articulate and well-informed view of the poems that defined Garcilaso… Barnard’s sophisticated interpretations make an important contribution to our understanding of an author not coincidentally dubbed ‘principe de los peotas españoles.’

- Antonio J. Arraiza Rivera (Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017)