Studies in Dosso Dossi's Pictorial Language: Painting and Humanist Culture in Ferrara under Duke Alfonso I d'Este (Ph. D. The John Hopkins University, 2001, 551 pp.).

'Ch. 1 investigates the genesis of the Costabili Polyptych, which was painted as a message of salvation in a new era of peace and projects the humanist theology of the Eremitani friars of Ferrara'.