The Literary remains of Christophe de Longueil (Longolius, ca. 1490-1522) were published by Junta in Florence in December 1524. The volume had no collective title, but may be listed as Orationes. It included the writing which Longueil did in Padua during his stay there 1520-1522: 'Orationes duae pro defensione sua in crimen lese maiestatis,' or, as the title appeared over the work itself, 'Perduellionis rei defensio,' a third version of his answer to the charge of treason to the Roman people.

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Though the Italianate Englishman is a well-known figure in the Elizabethan literary scene, our picture of him is drawn generally from plays and satires after 1590. a generation after Roger Ascham introduced the epithet. Moreover, each portraitist in turn strove to outdo the other in vehemence, as we judge from the broadening range of Greene, Lodge, Marston, Jonson, for example, who had themselves not traveled to Italy and might not therefore be able to judge whether their victim, the ‘affectate traveller’, had learned his vice or folly in Italy or France or Spain, or only at home. Presumably the Elizabethans did not care how far out of bounds the term went in describing extremes of cruelty or baseness.

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