Introduction Authority and Innovation in Renaissance Literature 1. Alberti's Musca: Humour, Ethics and the Challenge to Classical Models 2. The Orange and the Bay: Renaissance Symbols of Poetic Excellence 3. Shadows, Memory and Self-Improvement: The Renaissance in Celio Calcagnini's De profectu 4. Literary Texts and Michelangelo's 'Visible Speech' in Vasari's Lives 5. Critical Authorities, Canonical Traditions and Occasional Literature: The Case of the Early Modern Italian Academies 6. Measuring Verse, Measuring Value in English Renaissance Poetry Bruno, Campanella and Other Challenges to Religious Authority 7. Giordano Bruno: Portrait of a Philosopher Opposed to the Authority Principle 8.

Bruno's Candelaio, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson: Building on Hilary Gatti's Work 9. Bruno, Charlewood and Munday: Politics, Culture and Religion during Bruno's Time in England 10. Compassion and Cosmology: Caravaggio and Giordano Bruno 11. Maculae Galilei me perplexum habent.' Campanella, Sunspots and the Temptations of Pythagoreanism 12. Faxecura's Embassy to the Vatican (1615): Relations with Japan, from Documents in the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 13. Catholic Censorship of Early Modern Psychology.