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Introduction. Part 1 Medievalism - Petrarch and the Servian hermeneutic: Petrarch's pastorals - imitation as interpretation In the shade - metaphors of patronage ruins in the realm of thoughts. Part 2 Versions of Renaissance humanism: the commentary tradition including for the Medicis - Landino and Politian, Vives and Virgilian eschatology, Sebastian Brant - illustration as exegesis reopening the green cabinet - Clement Marot and Edmund Spenser. Part 3 Going public: pastoral versus Georgie - the politics of Virgilian quotation Making them his own - the politics of translation. Part 4 Neoclassicism and the fete champetre: Pope and Philips - pastorals at war pastoral and social protest including Voltaire, Andre Chenier, Charles Churchill, Oliver Goldsmith and George Crabbe images of belief - illustrated editions and translations including Desfontaines and the Discours de ruelle, John Martyn and the eye of science, the Didot Virgil - representations of counter-revolution, Thornton and Blake - reformist text and radical image. Part 5 Post-Romanticism - Wordsworth to Valery: Wordsworth's hard pastoral Samuel Palmer's con amore Andre Gide and fin de siecle pastoral A book for kings, students or whores - The Cranach Press Eclogues Paul Valery and the French fine book. Index.