¹ Rowse bragged of the money that he made by regular lecture tours of the USA.

² Denis Mack Smith (b. 1920), Fellow of Peterhouse 1947–62, of All Souls 1962–87, and of Wolfson, Oxford, 1987–2000; historian of modern Italy.

¹ Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad mocks an antiquary who is ‘with learned dust besprent’.

² William Prynne (1600–69), lawyer and antiquary, who produced an unending stream of Puritan and parliamentarian polemic.

³ T-R was elected a fellow in 1969.

¹ Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), Dutch statesman and scholar, whose motto was Ruit hora (‘Time is running away’). T-R’s lecture on him was published in From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution.

² Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617), French poet, historian, bibliophile, and memoir writer, who conducted extensive correspondence with scholars across Europe.

¹ Antonius Walaeus (1573–1639) was a Dutch (rather than Danish) Calvinist preacher, theologian, and philosopher.

² De Jesu Christo Servatore, published in 1594, was the most influential work of the Italian theologian Faustus Socinus (1539–1604), leader of the anti-Trinitarian or Socinian movement, which T-R saw as a precursor of the Enlightenment and which he explored in essays republished in his collections Historical Essays; Religion, the Reformation and Social Change; and Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans.

³ T-R was mistaken in supposing that Rabb’s biography of Sandys, Jacobean Gentleman, had already been published.

⁴ T-R was interested in Sandys’s place in the ecumenical movement which strove to reunite Catholicism and Protestantism. Speculum Europae was first published in 1605 as A Relation of the State to Religion.

⁵ Gaetano Cozzi (1922–2001) was confined to a wheelchair for life after an accident during his military service. He emerged in the 1950s as a distinguished historian of early modern Venice, and in the 1970s became founding Professor of History in the expanding University of Venice.