Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Paradise of Exiles? -- 1. Early Cultural Mediations -- 'Amydde the see' ('in alto mar'): Chaucer, Petrarch, and the Poetics of Exile -- Nationalising History? Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia, Shakespeare's Richard III, and the Appropriation of the English Past -- John Florio's Translation of Kingship: An Italian Baptism for James VI/I's Basilikon Doron -- 2. Diplomatic Interventions -- Lady Morgan, an Ambassador of Goodwill to Italian Exiles -- James Montgomery Stuart: A Scotsman in Florence -- John Hookham Frere, Gabriele Rossetti, and Anglo-Italian Cooperation in Exile -- The 'Pleasantest Post' in the Service? Contrasting British Diplomatic and Consular Experiences in Early Liberal Italy -- 3. Religious and Political Difference -- 'All the conscientious and honest papists': Exile and Belief Formation of an English Republican -- 'Null'altra Musica è qui gradita che la nostra'? Cultural Politics, Anti- Catholic Anxiety, and the Italian Operatic Community in London in the 1720s -- The 1844 Post Office Scandal and its Impact on English Public Opinion -- 4. Itinerant Communities -- The Italian Protestant Church of London in the 17th Century -- 'A Room with a View - and a Book': Some Aspects of Library Provision for English Residents and Visitors to Florence, 1815-1930 -- Negotiating and Narrating Homelessness: Refugees from the 1930s -- 5. Perspectives and Poetics of Literary Exile -- Imaginary Homelands? D.G. Rossetti and his Father between Italy and England -- The Diary of an Ennuyée: Anna Jameson's Sentimental Journey to Italy or the Exile of a Fragmented Heart -- 'A Little Ireland': James Joyce, Dublin, and Trieste -- The Inner Exile of Beppe Fenoglio -- 6. Mobile Aesthetics -- Gavin Hamilton: A Scots Dealer in Old Masters in 18th Century Rome.

Crowe and Cavalcaselle then and now -- 'English Enthusiasts': Vernon Lee and Italian Opera -- Notes on Contributors.