The classical languages and Italian : some questions of grammar and rhetoric / Guilio Lepschy -- 'Itali dicunt ozie' : describing non-standard and low-register speech in Latin / Philip Burton -- 'Utriusque linguae peritus' : how did one learn Greek and acquire the texts? / Nigel Wilson -- Alberti and the classical canon / Martin McLaughlin -- Plutarch's Camma : a Greek literary heroine's adventures in Renaissance Italy / Letizia Panizza -- Italy, France and the classical tradition : the origins of philological commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Jill Kraye -- 'Unicuique suum' : observations on Dante as reader of classical authors / Claudia Villa -- Petrarch's diploma of crowning : the Privilegium laureationis / Jonathan Usher -- Putting Italian Renaissance lyric in order : Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Latin Liber carminum / Stefano Carrai -- A Roman dialogue with Virgil and Homer : Capilupi, the Cento and Rome / George Hugo Tucker.