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“... a surprise: this is a city that we are encouraged to think of as a fountainhead of modernity. To Lauro Martines, who has seen Renaissance Italy as a spring of democratic authenticity diverted by wealth, aristocracy and a corrupt or bigoted Church into a stream of false consciousness and reaction, Savonarola has been something to keep fairly quiet ...”

“... were erected against the disorder that plagued the real Florence: the violent, chaotic city that Lauro Martines has brought to life in April Blood, a history of the conspiracy that very nearly took the life of the young Lorenzo de’ Medici before he had a chance to become the ‘Magnifico’ of legend. ...”

“... and about the relations, or lack of relations, between these academic pursuits. Worden avoids what Lauro Martines has called the besetting sin of many historically-minded critics: to read a Renaissance poem as if it were a prose document. (Arcadia in its entirety is ‘Poetry’, since, as Sidney himself wrote, ‘it is not rhyming and versing that maketh ...”

“... published in 1973, is a documentary history of women edited in collaboration with my husband, Lauro Martines. Its title comes from a statement by one of the Church Fathers to the effect that man was but woman was not – or not quite – made in God’s image. Are there Irish patterns here? Well, there are tendencies which, though partly due to ...”