Petrina's (English literature, U. of Padua) study examines Duke Humphrey of Gloucester's role and his contribution to the first generation of English humanism. Most studies on Humphrey and early-15th
Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of Machiavelli's The Prince in sixteenth-century England and Scotland through the analysis of early English translations produced before 1640, su
This collection of scholarly articles on Queen Elizabeth I examines the development of the monarchy and English identity through her personal writings and construction of political dialogue and court
The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her?life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributor