English Travellers to Venice 1450 –1600

Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the School of English, University of Leeds. The Hakluyt Society has previously published two of his other books: The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant 1647–1656 (1999) and The Origins of the Grand Tour. The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville (1649–1654), William Hammond (1655–1658), Banaster Maynard (1660–1663) (2004). Both books contain accounts of Venice in the seventeenth century which prompted the compilation of this volume dedicated to earlier accounts of travellers to Venice and Anglo-Venetian relations between 1450 and 1600. He has also served as a series editor and council member of the Hakluyt Society. His other books and articles focus on the extensive sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writings of the Sidney family of Penshurst and, in the twentieth century, the works of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell.

PART 1: INTRODUCTION / 1. Early Modern Anglo-Venetian Contacts / 2. English Travellers to Venice 1450–1548 / 3. English Travellers to Venice 1548–1600 / 4. Giacomo Franco’s Engravings of Venice / 5. Maps of Venice / PART 2: ENGLISH TRAVELLERS TO VENICE 1450–1600 / 1. c.1454 ‘The Physician’s Handbook’ of Richard ‘Esty’ or Richard ‘of Lincoln’ / 2. 1458/1462 The ‘Itineraries’ of William Wey / 3. 1458 and 1460 John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester / 4. c.mid-1460s–c. early 1470s Sir Edmund Wighton / 5. c.1492/93–97 Thomas Linacre / 6. c.1498/1500 Informacon for pylgrymes unto the holy londe / 7. 1506 Sir Richard Guildford’s chaplain, Thomas Larke / 8. c.1511–14 The Pylgrymage of Master Robert Langton / 9. 1513 Sir Thomas Newport and Sir Thomas Sheffield / 10. 1517 Sir Richard Torkington / 11. c.1521–c.1526, 1532–6 Reginald Pole / 12. c.1520s–1550 Edmund (Sigismund) Harvell / 13. 1527 Thomas Wyatt and Sir John Russell / 14. c.1538–42 Andrew Bo(o)rde / 15. 1545 The sinking of the Mary Rose and Venetian salvage attempts / 16. 1545/48 The Historie of Italie by William Thomas / 17. 1548/1550 and 1554/55 Sir Thomas Hoby and the Protestant English community at Venice and Padua / 18. 1550–56 Peter Vannes (Pietro Vanni of Lucca), English Ambassador to Venice / 19. 1552 Roger Ascham / 20. 1564 Richard Smith’s account of Sir Edward Unton’s visit to Venice / 21. 1570 and 1589 Henry Cavendish / 22. 1573–4 Philip Sidney at Venice, with Griffin Madox, Harry Whyte, John Fisher, Thomas Coningsby, Lodowick Bryskett and Edward Lord Windsor / 23. 1575–6 Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford / 24. 1575/77 Sir John North and his servant Hugh Lochard / 25. c.1575 Sir Henry Unton / 26. 1580 James Crichton / 27. 1581 Arthur Throckmorton / 28. 1581 Laurence Aldersey / 29. 1587/88 Stephen Powle / 30. Venetian intelligence about the Spanish Armada in 1588 / 31. 1588 Edward Webbe (1553/54–after 1592) / 32. 1591 Sir Henry Wotton / 33. 1593–5, 1596, 1597 Fynes Moryson / 34. 1595 Henry Piers / 35. English attitudes to Venice by 1600 / APPENDIX: Venetian Locations, Institutions and Ceremonies