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Introduction: The Wilton Diptych and Lorenzetti's "Good Government";cultures and politics in 14th-century Florence; crisis and transition in the14th century city. Part 1 Chaucer and the Italians: Dante, Petrarch andBoccaccio; Dante "The House of Fame" and "The Canterbury Tales"; Chaucer andPetrarch; Chaucer and Boccaccio; "Troilus and Criseyde". Part 2 Education andpolitics 1350-1550: the Italian example - Coluccio Salutati and Guarino; asecond phase of humanism - philosophy and Greek in England and Italy; HobyElyot and the Italian tradition. Part 3 Humanism and poetry: Wyatt PwetrarchAlamanni and Aretino; Sidney and Petrarch; Sidney Sannazaro and Arcadia. Part4 The Renaissance epic: the theory of the epic romance in Ariosto and Tasso;Ariosto and Harington; Fairfax and the Gerusalemme Liberata; the response ofSidney and Spenser. Part 5 Comedy in the Renaissance: Bibbiena's "LaCalandria"; Machiavelli's "Mandragola" and Giordano Bruno's "Candelaio";George Gascoigne's "Supposes and Ariosto's I Suppositi". Part 6 The novellain Italy and England: Cinthio and Bandello; English "novella" collections -Fenton Whestone and Painter; Webster and the idiom of the novella. Part 7Pastoral experiment in the plays of Guarini Marston and Fletcher: the theoryand practice of mixed forms in Cinthio and Guarini; pastoral tragi-comedy inMarston and Fletcher. Part 8 Shakespeare and Italy: the Italy ofShakespeare's comedy - "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merchant ofVenice"; experiments in mixed genres - "All's Well That Ends Well", "Troilusand Cresida" and "Measure for Measure"; "Cymbeline and the Pastoral;"Othello" and Dante's "Vita Nuova".