#68 Renaissance Ramblings

The cover of the book looks enticing, I'm not referring to the nude, but the title--  "The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance."  If I had looked a little more closely as I purchased this book I would have noticed that this book is comprised of chapters, each of which is an essay from a literary magazine.  These are reviews!  Though these do not seem like reviews, they really do not seem like much of anything.  The style of writing is foreign to what I am used to in literary studies.  They seemed to lack a thesis, and were written in a very flowing way that skitted from one subject to the next.  Though this is nice, it really did not tell me much of anything.  I was looking for substantial scholarship here, and got a book of what seemed like The New Yorker does reviews.  I find them entertaining, but fail to see the importance.  For a book with such a nice sounding name I fail to see the purpose, and maybe it is because when it comes to scholarship I tend to be myopic.  And for 261 pages I seemed to lack the skills to fully appreciate this book.  Or maybe I understood it just fine.