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England and the continental Renaissance : essays in honour of J.B. Trapp

Containing 23 essays which aim to shed new light on the evolution of English culture between the 15th and 18th centuries, this book discusses both the English cultural manifestation and its continental sources. There is a bias towards 16th-century Anglo-Italian cultural connections.
Print Book, English, 1990
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk [England], 1990
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 322 pages, 53 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780851152707, 0851152708
21333893
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, with an appendix by M.C. Davies
Titian, Philip II and Mary Tudor / Charles Hope
Il Moro : an Italian view 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 Burchfield
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' : Shakespeare's Prospero and Prospero Visconti of Milan / E.H. 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 I / Elizabeth McGrath
Edward Altham as a hermit / Jennifer Montagu
Veleda, Susanna, Boadicea or Dorothy : antiquarian discussion on some sixteenth-century ornamental bricks / Jean Michel Massing
A list of the publications of J.B. Trapp / J. Perkins