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The Italian encounter with Tudor England : a cultural politics of translation / Michael Wyatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wyatt, Michael, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 51.
- Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Florio, John, 1553?-1625.
- Florio, John.
- Language and culture--England--History--16th century.
- Language and culture.
- Italian language--England.
- Italian language.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Italians--England.
- Italians.
- Great Britain--Civilization--Italian influences.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The small but influential community of Italians that took shape in England in the fifteenth century initially consisted of ecclesiastics, humanists, merchants, bankers and artists. However, in the wake of the English Reformation, Italian Protestants joined other continental religious refugees in finding Tudor England to be a hospitable and productive haven, and they brought with them a cultural perspective informed by the ascendency among European elites of their vernacular language. This study maintains that questions of language are at the centre of the circulation of ideas in the early modern period. Wyatt first examines the agency of this shifting community of immigrant Italians in the transmission of Italy's cultural patrimony and its impact on the nascent English nation; Part Two turns to the exemplary career of John Florio, the Italo-Englishman who worked as a language teacher, lexicographer and translator in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. 'A parlar d'Inghilterra' : Italians in and on early modern England
- 1. The two roses
- 2. Reformations
- 3. La Regina Helisabetta
- pt. 2. John Florio and the cultural politics of translation
- 4. Language lessons
- 5. Worlds of words.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-15320-4
- 1-280-30897-4
- 0-511-13437-1
- 0-511-20155-9
- 0-511-13734-6
- 0-511-31172-9
- 0-511-48409-7
- 0-511-13517-3
- OCLC:
- 252488177
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