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Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth’s Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch and Horace; Caroline Pemberton, ed.. (hb) £20.00

Reference

Betty Radice
Who’s Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics. (pb) £2.00

William Smith
A Classical Dictionary, Biographical, Mythological, and Geographical; revised edn. (hb) £4.50

Jon R. Stone
More Latin for the Illiterati. (pb) £4.00

Secondary sources

A. C. Clark
The Descent of Manuscripts. (hb) £12.00

Marilyn Desmond
Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality and the Medieval Aeneid. (hb) £10.00

George D. Economou
The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature. (hb) £12.00

Michael G. Hanly
Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, Four Perspectives on Influence. (hb) £6.50

James McGregor
The Shades of Aeneas: the Imitation of Vergil and the History of Paganism in Boccaccio’s Filostrato, Filocolo, and Teseida. (hb) £6.00

Lawrence Nees
A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court. (hb) £15.00

Theresa Tinkle
Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, & English Poetry. (hb) £15.00

Roberto Weiss
The Dawn of Humanism in Italy. (pb) £5.00

Arthur M. Young
Echoes of Two Cultures. (pb) £5.00

Books & journals containing related material

[Journal].
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LVIII (1995). (pb) £20.00

[Journal].
Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, no. 15 (1987): The Early Renaissance. (hb) £11.00

Ernest Barker, trans.
From Alexander to Constantine: Social and Political Ideas 336 BC — AD 337. (hb) £10.00

Kenneth R. Bartlett, ed.
The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook. (pb) £6.50

Derek Brewer, ed.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Writer and his Background. (pb) £10.00

Theresa M. Krier
Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare. (hb) £15.00

Vernon Lee
Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediæval in the Renaissance. (hb) £6.00

Christopher Lloyd
Andrea Mantegna: The Triumphs of Caesar, A Sequence of Nine Paintings in the Royal Collection. (pb) £5.00

A. J. Minnis, ed.
Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall. (hb) £15.00

David Nicholas
The Transformation of Europe 1300-1600. (pb) £12.50

Teresa Pérez-Higuera
The Art of Time: Medieval Calendars and the Zodiac. (hb) £8.00

Kim Power
Veiled Desire: Augustine’s Writings on Women. (pb) £10.00

Norman R. Shapiro, trans.
The Comedy of Eros: Medieval French Guides to the Art of Love, 2nd edn. (pb) £8.00

Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy’s Tomb Raiders to the World’s Greatest Museums. (hb) £5.00

L. P. Wilkinson
Ovid Surveyed, an abridgement for the general reader of “Ovid Recalled”. (pb) £10.00

Charles R. Young, ed.
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance. (pb) £5.00

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