Michael Wyatt

Italian Encounter with Tudor England (eBook, PDF)

A Cultural Politics of Translation

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511133749
• Artikelnr.: 38211497

Autorenporträt

Michael Wyatt, an independent scholar, has previously taught at Northwestern University and at Wesleyan University. He is a fellow of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for the Study of the Renaissance.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Italians in and on Early Modern England: 1. The two roses
2. Reformations
3. La Regina Helisabetta
Part II. John Florio and the Cultural Politics of Translation: 4. Language lessons
5. Worlds of words
Appendix I
Appendix II
Notes
Bibliography
Index.