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The Italian Encounter with Tudor England

A Cultural Politics of Translation

Michael Wyatt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:13th Sep '12

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A study of the role played by Italians and Italian culture in the early modern period.

The Italian Encounter with Tudor England studies the role played by Italians and Italian culture in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Michael Wyatt employs a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship in examining the relationship of these two powerful cultures in the early modern period.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.

Review of the hardback: 'England is from this vantage point a fulcrum of extraordinary interest, to which Michael Wyatt's wonderful book … introduces us.' Italians d'Inghilterra

ISBN: 9781107407596

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm

Weight: 570g

392 pages