Of followers and friends: problems of definition -- Visions of laurel: classical examplars -- The arts of magnificence: early modern exemplars -- Economies of script and print -- The rhetoric of paratexts -- The protocols of presentation -- Petrarch and the Renaissance of patronage -- Ariosto: laureate or poligrafo? -- Tasso: patronage and imprisonment -- Print and patronage in the early Tudor age -- Elizabeth I and court patronage -- Courts and coteries -- The Elizabeth marketplace -- Career trajectories -- Egerton: a patron's 'canon' -- The courts of King James and Prince Henry.
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