Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.

Large 8vo, 376pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in dust jacket which has a small stain to upper right.

Yates' examination of the Academie de Poesie et de Musique, the Academie du Palais, the Academie des Jeux Floraux, among others and relates their activities to the poetry of the Pleiade, to the Platonic Academy and similar groups in Renaissance Italy.