Most of the essays in this collection illustrate the manner in which Italian letters influenced European writers from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Other essays treat of the relationship between emblem and courtesy books--and the identity of literary and artistic theory in the Renaissance.

Most of the essays in this collection illustrate the manner in which Italian letters influenced European writers from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Other essays treat of the relationship between emblem and courtesy books--and the identity of literary and artistic theory in the Renaissance.