The essays offered in this volume examine the influence of Christian Latin Literature, whether biblical, patristic, scholastic or humanistic, upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula in the period 1480 to 1630. The contributions have been organized into three thematically coherent groups, dealing with transmission and translation, adaptation, and visual representation. The first two articles (Gonzalez Vega and Coroleu) are concerned, respectively, with Nebrija's biblical scholarship and with the process of transmission of devotional works and Christian Latin poets of late Antiquity. Two further essays (Ferrer and, Alles) attend to the process of translation from Latin to the vernacular. The bulk of the collection (six pieces in all) deals with the manner in which fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese writers looked to the Bible, the Church Fathers, and medieval and humanist Christian authors for models and inspiration. Contributors show how, in accord with the practices of Renaissance imitation, writers in Latin or the vernaculars assimilated their sources thoroughly and created from them something personal and new. Essays in this section are concerned with epic poetry (Alves, Miralles-Valsalobre), biblical exegesis (O'Reilly), Neo-Latin and vernacular poetry (Fouto and Francalanci), and stylistic and scholarly issues (Taylor). The last two papers in the collection, by Jean Andrews and Stephen Boyd, extend the study of Christian literature in Spain to the visual arts.