Jonathan Hughes is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is also Guest Lecturer at the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism, UK. His books include Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire (1988), The Religious Life of Richard III (1997) and Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV (2002).

Jonathan Hughes’s Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England details how we might view an earlier Renaissance occurring in fifteenth-century England through interesting connections to Dante’s world… the book offers fascinating new insights into these connections between Italy and England.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements and ForewordIntroduction1. Mercury: The Arrival of Dante in England 1370-14502. Jupiter: Ancient Rome3. Apollo (the Sun): The Legacy of Ancient Greece4. Venus: Nature and Science5. The Fixed Stars: Fortune6. Luna (the Moon): Women7. The Primum Mobile and the Empyrean: Love and the Afterlife8. Saturn: Melancholia9. Terram (the Earth): Conclusion and the Afterlife of The Divine ComedyBibliography Index

Jonathan Hughes is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is also Guest Lecturer at the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism, UK. His books include Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire (1988), The Religious Life of Richard III (1997) and Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV (2002).

Jonathan Hughes’s Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England details how we might view an earlier Renaissance occurring in fifteenth-century England through interesting connections to Dante’s world… the book offers fascinating new insights into these connections between Italy and England.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements and ForewordIntroduction1. Mercury: The Arrival of Dante in England 1370-14502. Jupiter: Ancient Rome3. Apollo (the Sun): The Legacy of Ancient Greece4. Venus: Nature and Science5. The Fixed Stars: Fortune6. Luna (the Moon): Women7. The Primum Mobile and the Empyrean: Love and the Afterlife8. Saturn: Melancholia9. Terram (the Earth): Conclusion and the Afterlife of The Divine ComedyBibliography Index