Matthew McLean teaches early modern history at the University of St Andrews. His research is centred upon the Reformation and on learned culture and humanist networks in the sixteenth century. He has published on The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster: Describing the World in the Reformation (Ashgate, 2007) and articles on the scholarly communities, networks and rivalries of Reformation Basel and Zurich. He has also edited, with Bruce Gordon, Shaping the Bible in the Reformation: Books, Scholars and their Readers in the Sixteenth Century (Brill, 2012).Sara Barker is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Protestantism, Poetry and Protest: The Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c.1534-1591) (Ashgate, 2009) and articles on news and translation in early modern Europe. With Brenda M. Hosington, she co-edited Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640 (Brill, 2013). Her current research focuses on the circulation of news in western Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

“The incredibly rich and varied contributions in this volume reflect the current vibrancy of book history and underline how international the book world was in the first age of print, in terms of its agents and actors, authors and readers.”Alexander Samson, University College London. In: Publishing History, Vol. 80 (2019), pp. 107-112.

• Notes on ContributorsPrefacePART ONEThe International Book Trade: Business without Borders1. Sales Channels for Bestsellers in Sixteenth-Century EuropeValentina Sebastiani2. International Publishing and Local Needs: the Breviaries and Missals Printed by Plantin for the Spanish CrownBenito Rial Costas3. Centre and Periphery? Relations between Frankfurt and Bologna in the Transnational Book Trade of the 1600sCaroline Duroselle-Melish4. Selling Books in the Italian Renaissance. The Correspondence of Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano (1522)Angela Nuovo5. Plantin and the French Book MarketMalcolm WalsbyPART TWOCultural Transmissions and Political Exchange6. Books as a Means of Transcultural Exchange between the Habsburgs and the OttomansZsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik7. ‘This Book Hath Been Often Call’d For’: Translations of Italian Works on the Dutch Revolt and the European Book MarketNina Lamal8. The Pike and the Printing Press: Military Handbooks and the Gentrification of the Early-Modern Military RevolutionMark R. GeldofPART THREELibraries, Collections, Ownership9. How to Build a Library across Early-Modern Europe: the Network of Claude ExpillyShanti Graheli10. Books without Borders. The Presence of the European Printing Press in the Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth CenturyGiovanna Granata11. Angelica’s Book: the Power of Reading in Late Renaissance FlorenceBrendan DooleyPART FOURMoving Music and Translating Tongues: Literature and Music between Countries12. Confessional Networks, Cultural Exchange and the Printed Music of Jerome Commelin (ca.1550–1597)Matthew Laube13. Sellers and Buyers of Italian Music around 1700: the Silvani Firm and G.B. Bassani’s Music in Italy and Central EuropeHuub van der Linden14. Translating Renaissance Drama: Networks, Platforms, AppsAnston Bosman15. «Catullum Numquam Antea Lectum […] Lego»: a Short Analysis of Catullus’ Fortune in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesAlina Laura de Luca16. Intertraffic: Transnational Literatures and Languages in Late Renaissance England and EuropeWarren BoutcherIndex