Abstract
This is the first critical edition and translation of a 1537 letter from the Italian Humanist, Giovanni Ferrerio, to the Scottish Cistercian Abbot, Robert Reid of Kinloss. Together with the ad lectorem, it prefaces Ferrerio's Historia abbatum de Kynlos. The edition is based on two autograph manuscripts of the text, now in Rome and Edinburgh, which have not previously been collated. An introduction and notes set the texts in the context of Humanist historiography and Scottish history. They show that a flourishing ‘northern Renaissance’ spread even to the shores of the Moray Firth in north-east Scotland, and that ties of friendship and common culture united scholars from Scotland and the Continent. It has been said that Humanist historiography hardly influenced the writing of ecclesiastical history until after the Council of Trent, but the letter reveals that Ferrerio's Historia is in a Scottish tradition of writing church history which unites Humanism and the chronicle tradition in the same manner as post-Tridentine sacred history.
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