...Brian C. Lockey Aphra Behns' The Rover harks back to an earlier period of intense Anglo-Spanish rivalry in which the iconography surrounding Queen Elizabeth played a central role. But the play also moves past nostalgia for late-sixteenth-century narratives of English national identity...

.... Anglo-Spanish politics and history are considered from a different perspective by Brian Lockey in his reading of Aphra Behn’s The Rover, a play in which English royalists arrive to “liberate” the oppressed female sub- jects of Spanish-occupied Naples. Situating the play in the context of Spain’s...

... received or preserved by Italian ruling houses which are now kept in state archives, such as the Della Rovere and Medici archives in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, the Gonzaga archives in Archivio di Stato in Mantua, and the Este archives in Archivio di Stato di Modena. Letters were sometimes addressed...

... Rovere, who appears as the young prefect in the Cortegiano. Working diplomatically for Francesco Maria della Rovere over the next several years, he was sent to Rome as the resident ambassador of Urbino in 1513. He later served the diplomatic inter- ests of Federico Gonzaga. His diplomatic work...

..., hides her desire from her community: I love thee dear but I dare not show it / Do thou the like but let no man know it. Thus the ballad, even as it defends the seaman, also anticipates disapproval of the maiden s choice. Other ballads suggest some reasons why. Songs about such infamous rovers...

... England . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xi, 269 pp., 3 figs., 21 tables. $110.00. Eze, Anne-Marie, Matthew Hayes, Ian Kennedy, and Ian Verstegen. Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II and His Son . Foreword by Dianne Dwyer Modestini. London: Paul Holberton...

.... Verstegen, Ian F., ed. Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the Della Rovere in Renaissance Italy. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 77. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2007. xxviii, 209 pp.; 46 illus. $54.95. Walker, Alicia, and Amanda Luyster, eds. Negotiating Secular...

... and who were the most committed to piracy and slaving as a community venture, were also the most aggressive at seeking out fresh territories to harvest. By 1600 they had equipped them- selves with larger vessels and had begun to venture past Gibraltar, to join the Salé Rovers at preying on Atlantic...

... History’s Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away with It: The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500 – 1800. Beverly, Mass.: Fair Winds Press, 2011. 272 pp.; illus. in black-­and-­white and color throughout. Paper $19.99. Miller, Gordon. Voyages...

... casa de placer que aquí tenemos” (221). 72 On erotic images in early sixteenth-­century Europe, see Anne Röver-­Kann, Albrecht Dürer: Das Frauenbad von 1496 (Bremen: H. M. Hauschild, 2001). Erwin Panofsky, “Homage to Fracastoro in a Germano-­Flemish Composition of about 1590 Neder...