England and the Italian Renaissance

John Hale was formerly Professor of Italian History atUniversity College London. He had been a Fellow and Tutor in ModernHistory at Jesus College, Oxford; the founding Professor of Historyat the University of Warwick; a visiting fellow at the HarvardCentre for Renaissance Studies, I Tatti, Florence; and Professor ofItalian at University College London. He was a fellow of theBritish Academy, a former chairman of the Trustees of the NationalGallery and was knighted for 'services to learning and thearts' in 1984. His books include England and the ItalianRenaissance (1954), Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy(1961), Renaissance Exploration (1968), Renaissance WarStudies (1983), War and Society in Renaissance Europe1450-1620 (1985) and The Civilization of Europe in theRenaissance (1993). Professor Hale died in 1999. Edward Chaney is Professor of Fine and Decorative Artsand founding Chair of the History of Collecting Research Centre atthe Southampton Solent University. He is the author or editor ofseveral book on Anglo-Italian relations, including The Evolutionof the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since theRenaissance (1998) and The Evolution of English Collecting:Receptions of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods(2003).