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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
PART I: ENGLISH TRAVELLERS TO VENICE 14501548
1. c.1454 The Physicians Handbook of Richard Esty or Richard of Lincoln
2. 1458/62 The Itineraries of William Wey
3. 1458 and 1460 John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester
4. c. mid-1460sc. early 1470s Sir Edmund Wighton
5. c.1492/397 Thomas Linacre
6. c.1498/1500 Informacon for pylgrymes unto the holy londe
7. 1506 Sir Richard Guildfords Chaplain, Thomas Larke
8. c.151114 The Pylgrymage of Master Robert Langton
9. 1513 Sir Thomas Newport and Sir Thomas Sheffield
10. 1517 Sir Richard Torkington
11. c.1521c.1526 and 15326 Reginald Pole
12. c.1520s1550 Edmund (Sigismund) Harvell
13. 1527 Thomas Wyatt and Sir John Russell