Charles G. Nauert's review of the Rabil edition of the Declamatio in Sixteenth Century Journal is brief but carries the authority of a scholar who had been working on Agrippa's intellectual biography for decades — Nauert's monograph Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance Thought (1965) remained a standard reference for the biography of Agrippa and the broader context of his career in sixteenth-century intellectual culture.

Nauert's assessment is positive: the edition is praised for its accurate translation, its useful introduction, and its success in making the Declamatio accessible to a non-specialist readership within the Other Voice series format. He notes that Rabil's framing of the work within the querelle des femmes tradition is appropriate and that the introductory essay provides the historical context needed to read the Declamatio intelligently.

The review is also useful for Nauert's brief observation about the relationship between the Declamatio and the DOP: he suggests that the two works represent complementary rather than contradictory aspects of Agrippa's program, with the feminist theology of the Declamatio reflecting the same interest in the divine feminine that appears in the Kabbalistic sections of DOP Book III. This is consistent with Barbara Newman's (1993) more developed argument, and its brief articulation in Nauert's review — by one of the leading historians of Agrippa — gives it additional scholarly weight.