Table of Contents

On the continuity of Medieval English love-lyric, Peter Dronke; some pre-Elizabethan examples of an Elizabethan art, Douglas Gray; Erasmus and the canonisation of Aristotle - the letter to John More, Jill Kraye; Titian, Philip 11 and Mary Tudor, Charles Hope; "Il Moro" - an Italian life of Sir Thomas More, Dennis E. Rhodes; a Mantuan in London in 1557 - further research on Annibale Litolfi, D.S. Chambers; a profile of the grammar of three sixteenth-century lives of Sir Thomas More and of an unrelated 'drab' prose work by Anthony Gilby, Robert Bruchfield; the perils of publishing in the sixteenth century - Pietro Bizari and William Parry, two Elizabethan misfits, Nicholas Barker; accident or design - John Gildon's funeral monuments and Italianate taste in Elizabethan England, Nigel Llewellyn; a Machiavellian solution to the Irish problem - Richard Beacon's "Solon His follie" (1594), Sydney Anglo; "Vincentio Saviolo His Practise" (1595) - a problem of authorship, Sergio Rossi; "Counterfeit Presentments" - Shakespeare's "Ekphrasis", Stephen Orgel; "My Library was Dukedom Large Enough" - Shakespear's Prospero and Prospero Visconti of Milan, E.H.L Gombrich; England and the Italian medal, J.G. Pollard; English "Disegno", Michael Baxandall; an unknown manuscript translation by John Thorpe of Du Cerceau's "Perspective", Karl Josef Holtgen; Sir Francis Carew's garden at Beddington, Roy Strong; the protestant confessor, or the tragic history of Mr Molle, R.W. Lightbown; local heroes - the Scottish humanist parnassus for Charles 1, Elizabeth McGrath; Edward Altham as a hermit, Jennifer Montagu; Veleda, Susanna, Boadicea or Dorothy - antiquarian discussions on some sixteenth-century ornamental bricks, Jean-Michel Massing.