Contents include: Introduction: Spenser and Platonism; Carol Kaske, Hallmarks of Platonism and the Sons of Agape (Faerie Queene IV. ii-iv); Valery Rees, Ficinian Ideas in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser; Eugene D. Hill, Everard Digby: A Syncretic Philosopher at Spenser's Cambridge; and Anne Lake Prescott, Hills of Contemplation and Signifying Circles: Spenser and Guy Le Fevre de la Boderie.