Congratulations are due to Dr DAVID LINES (Italian) on the recent award of funding for a Leverhulme International Network on ‘Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c. 1400–c. 1650’. This project, directed by Dr LINES, will involve colleagues from the CSR in three colloquia in collaboration with the Warburg Institute and the Universities of Bonn, Leuven, Venice (Ca’ Foscari), and Florence, and will run from 2012-15.