The Early Venetian paintings in Holland

After our introduction to Ermolao Barbaro in Chapter 3, the story of his estrangement from Venice is taken up in Chapter 4, but in the context of our larger coverage of the shift t...

This essay reassesses Chaucer’s influence on the Older Scots poem The Buke of the Howlat (c.1448), written by the Orkney poet Richard Holland (d. in or after 1483) in the mid-fifte...

This is the last volume in a seven-volume collection - published in nine parts between 1864 and 1890 - comprising Venetian and other northern Italian state papers relating to Engla...

This two-volume work contains documents from the Venetian state archives from the period 1300–1454. They refer to Venice's dealings with her own empire across the eastern Mediterra...

This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy (1473) by the eminent Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1454–93); Books 3 and 4 of...

Abstract This book opens a door long closed on an important era in the history of Venice. It presents, for the first time, an introductory, contextual study of three...

Abstract This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows how one traditionally esteemed author, the Roman poet Virgil, played an unexpecte...