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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 2005 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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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Italian Encounter with Tudor England
• Subtitle: A Cultural Politics of Translation
• Author: Michael Wyatt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• EAN: 9781107407596
• ISBN: 1107407591
• ID: 02051672
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 582 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. September 2012

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