The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation

The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation
ISBN-10
0521848962
ISBN-13
9780521848961
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
392
Language
English
Published
2005-12-01
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Michael Wyatt

Description

The small but influential community of Italians in England during 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. Michael Wyatt 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, as well as the exemplary career of John Florio, the Italo-Englishman who was a language teacher, lexicographer, and translator in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

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