This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.

Tilar J. Mazzeo,

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- General Editor's Introduction -- ITALIAN LIVES -- Editor's introduction, Italian Lives -- Notes on Italian Lives Volume I -- Notes on Italian Lives Volume II -- ITALIAN LIVES VOLUME -- Petrarch -- Boccaccio -- Lorenzo de' Medici -- Marsiglio Ficino -- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola -- Angelo Poliziano -- Bernardo Pulci, Luca Pulci, Luigi Pulci -- Cieco Da Ferrara -- Burchiello -- Bojardo -- Berni -- Machiavelli -- ITALIAN LIVES VOLUME -- Guicciardini -- Vittoria Colonna -- Guarini -- Chiabrera -- Tassoni -- Marini -- Filicaja -- Metastasio -- Goldoni -- Alfieri -- Monti -- Ugo Foscolo -- Editorial Corrections.