Alessandra Petrina is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Università di Padova, Italy. She has published The Kingis Quair (Padova, 1997), Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Leiden, 2004), and Machiavelli in the British Isles. Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (Farnham, 2009).

• Contents: Alessandra Petrina: Introduction – Jane Stevenson: The Female Monarch and her Subjects – Monica Santini: Romance Imagery in Elizabethan Entertainments and Tournaments – Donatella Montini: ‘As many as are English, are my children and kinsfolks’. Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of the Country – Paola Bottalla: Power Negotiations in the Poetry of Elizabeth I – Davide del Bello: Elizabeth and the Rhetoric of Courtly Mystification – Valerio de Scarpis: The Music of the Spheres, Cosmography, and the Cult of Elizabeth I: Thomas Campion and John Davies, Sympathetic Bystanders – Peter Davidson: Opposing Elizabeth – Conny Loder: Tyranny, Theatricality and Machiavelli – Valentina Bricchi: ‘Che più gran cosa può desiderar un prencipe da i suoi sugetti?’: Monarchy and Power in John Florio’s Works – Sara Trevisan: Representations of Queen Elizabeth in the Private Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (1601-1666) – Merio Scattola: A Challenge in Political Theology. James I and Early English Puritans on the Sources and Limits of Secular Authority.

Alessandra Petrina is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Università di Padova, Italy. She has published The Kingis Quair (Padova, 1997), Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Leiden, 2004), and Machiavelli in the British Isles. Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (Farnham, 2009).

• Contents: Alessandra Petrina: Introduction – Jane Stevenson: The Female Monarch and her Subjects – Monica Santini: Romance Imagery in Elizabethan Entertainments and Tournaments – Donatella Montini: ‘As many as are English, are my children and kinsfolks’. Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of the Country – Paola Bottalla: Power Negotiations in the Poetry of Elizabeth I – Davide del Bello: Elizabeth and the Rhetoric of Courtly Mystification – Valerio de Scarpis: The Music of the Spheres, Cosmography, and the Cult of Elizabeth I: Thomas Campion and John Davies, Sympathetic Bystanders – Peter Davidson: Opposing Elizabeth – Conny Loder: Tyranny, Theatricality and Machiavelli – Valentina Bricchi: ‘Che più gran cosa può desiderar un prencipe da i suoi sugetti?’: Monarchy and Power in John Florio’s Works – Sara Trevisan: Representations of Queen Elizabeth in the Private Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (1601-1666) – Merio Scattola: A Challenge in Political Theology. James I and Early English Puritans on the Sources and Limits of Secular Authority.

Alessandra Petrina is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Università di Padova, Italy. She has published The Kingis Quair (Padova, 1997), Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Leiden, 2004), and Machiavelli in the British Isles. Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (Farnham, 2009).

• Contents: Alessandra Petrina: Introduction – Jane Stevenson: The Female Monarch and her Subjects – Monica Santini: Romance Imagery in Elizabethan Entertainments and Tournaments – Donatella Montini: ‘As many as are English, are my children and kinsfolks’. Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of the Country – Paola Bottalla: Power Negotiations in the Poetry of Elizabeth I – Davide del Bello: Elizabeth and the Rhetoric of Courtly Mystification – Valerio de Scarpis: The Music of the Spheres, Cosmography, and the Cult of Elizabeth I: Thomas Campion and John Davies, Sympathetic Bystanders – Peter Davidson: Opposing Elizabeth – Conny Loder: Tyranny, Theatricality and Machiavelli – Valentina Bricchi: ‘Che più gran cosa può desiderar un prencipe da i suoi sugetti?’: Monarchy and Power in John Florio’s Works – Sara Trevisan: Representations of Queen Elizabeth in the Private Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (1601-1666) – Merio Scattola: A Challenge in Political Theology. James I and Early English Puritans on the Sources and Limits of Secular Authority.