Laura BANDIERA and Diego SAGLIA: Introduction: ‘Home of the Arts! Land of the Lyre!’: Scholarly Approaches and Fictional Myths of Italian Culture in British Romanticism Setting the Scene: Literary and Cultural Intersections William SPAGGIARI: The Canon of the Classics: Italian Writers and Romantic-Period Anthologies of Italian Literature in Britain Gian Mario ANSELMI: Shelley and the Italian Lyrical Tradition Building the Past: Re-Approaching the Italian Literary Heritage Carla Maria GNAPPI: The Sunflower and the Rose: Notes Towards a Reassessment of Blake’s Illustrations of Dante Maria Cristina CIGNATTA: William Hazlitt and Dante as the Embodiment of ‘Power, Passion, Self-Will’ Silvia BORDONI: ‘The Sonnet’s Claim’: Petrarch and the Romantic Sonnet Luca MANINI: Charlotte Smith and the Voice of Petrarch Edoardo ZUCCATO: Writing Petrarch’s Biography: From Susanna Dobson (1775) to Alexander Fraser Tytler (1810) Laura BANDIERA: Wordsworth’s Ariosto: Translation as Metatext and Misreading Looking at Contemporary Italy: Mapping the Present Lilla Maria CRISAFULLI: Theatre and Theatricality in British Romantic Constructions of Italy Gioia ANGELETTI: ‘I Feel the Improvisatore’: Byron, Improvisation, and Romantic Poetics Serena BAIESI: The Influence of the Italian Improvvisatrici on British Romantic Women Writers: Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s Response Mauro PALA: Facets of the Risorgimento: The Debate on the Classical Heritage from Byron’s Childe Harold to Leopardi’s Canzone ad Angelo Mai Cecilia PIETROPOLI: The Tale of the Two Foscaris from the Chronicles to the Historical Drama: Mary Mitford’s Foscari and Lord Byron’s The Two Foscari Lia GUERRA: Mary Shelley’s Contributions to Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia: Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy Diego SAGLIA: ‘Freedom alone is wanting’: British Views of Contemporary Italian Drama, 1820-1830 Caroline FRANKLIN: Cosmopolitanism and Catholic Culture: Byron, Italian Poetry, and The Liberal Index