ABSTRACT
Studious, gentle, and most cruelly sacrificed to the religious disquietudes of her times, Lady Jane Grey might stand as an allegorical figure representing the Puritan version of the Renaissance learned lady, or the archaic, pre-Elizabethan, version of Italianate culture in England. Her Italian teacher, Michelangelo Florio, whose Regole de la lingua thoscana Giuliano Pellegrini here publishes for the first time, was an Italian Protestant refugee who, as teacher of his native language in England, began a family tradition which his son, John Florio, was to carry on in the next generation as the chief disseminator of Italian language and culture to the Elizabethans. The text here published is thus a landmark in the history of Italian studies in England, and Dr Pellegrini has performed a service in making it available.
