This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholarship, literature and visual arts.

Maria BERBARA is professor of Art History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She specializes in Italian and Iberian art history during the Early-Modern period, and her most recent publications include a Portuguese annotaded translation of Michelangelo's letters as well as several articles on Francisco de Holanda and the artistic exchanges between Italy, Portugal and the New World during the Renaissance.
Karl A.E. ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Formerly, he was professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. He has published extensively on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.