Denis Drysdall is a Research Associate and retired Associate Professor of Romance Languages of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Both the introduction and the translation of the Latin letter will doubtless interest anyone concerned with Alciato himself and his emblems, but also with questions relating to religion in the early modern period. It would be impossible to write about monasticism without coming to terms with the Franciscan order.Peter M. Daly, McGill University, The Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 69, Number 4 | Winter 2016

• TABLE OF CONTENTS— Acknowledgements — Introduction — Appendices — Note on the Text and Translation — Text and Translation — Index of Names

Denis Drysdall is a Research Associate and retired Associate Professor of Romance Languages of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Both the introduction and the translation of the Latin letter will doubtless interest anyone concerned with Alciato himself and his emblems, but also with questions relating to religion in the early modern period. It would be impossible to write about monasticism without coming to terms with the Franciscan order.Peter M. Daly, McGill University, The Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 69, Number 4 | Winter 2016

• TABLE OF CONTENTS— Acknowledgements — Introduction — Appendices — Note on the Text and Translation — Text and Translation — Index of Names

Denis Drysdall is a Research Associate and retired Associate Professor of Romance Languages of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Both the introduction and the translation of the Latin letter will doubtless interest anyone concerned with Alciato himself and his emblems, but also with questions relating to religion in the early modern period. It would be impossible to write about monasticism without coming to terms with the Franciscan order.Peter M. Daly, McGill University, The Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 69, Number 4 | Winter 2016

• TABLE OF CONTENTS— Acknowledgements — Introduction — Appendices — Note on the Text and Translation — Text and Translation — Index of Names