The Italian Encounter with Tudor England

Michael Wyatt0521848962, 9780521848961, 9780511137341

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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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Series-title……Page 4
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Contents……Page 7
Figures……Page 9
Acknowledgments……Page 11
Note on the text……Page 14
Introduction……Page 17
Part 1: ‘A parlar d’Inghilterra’: Italians in and on Early Modern England……Page 29
1 The two roses……Page 31
A Venetian ambassadorial report……Page 35
Italian humanists in Britain……Page 44
Italian artists in England……Page 59
England and the Roman church……Page 69
Italian actors in Henry VIII’s ‘great matter’……Page 78
2 Reformations……Page 81
Italian views of Henry VIII……Page 82
Edward VI through one Italian’s eyes……Page 88
The Italian ‘reformation’ in England……Page 100
Michelangelo Florio and the Tudor interregnum……Page 114
Italians and the English Catholic queen……Page 117
3 La Regina Helisabetta……Page 133
From Mary to Elizabeth……Page 134
Elizabeth, Italian, and Italians……Page 141
The status of the ‘stranger’ in England……Page 150
The Italian mercantile presence in England……Page 156
The Italian community in England……Page 162
Part 2: John Florio and the Cultural Politics of Translation……Page 171
4 Language lessons……Page 173
Roger Ascham contra Italy……Page 175
Language instruction in Elizabethan England……Page 179
John Florio’s language pedagogy……Page 181
The poetic ‘lie’ in the service of language learning……Page 186
Proverbial lessons……Page 190
Instruction in courtesy……Page 196
The Italian book, made in England……Page 201
A Shakespearean language lesson……Page 215
5 Worlds of words……Page 219
Alessandro Citolini and the Italian ‘language question’……Page 220
Grammars……Page 226
Instruments of cultural control in early modern Italy……Page 234
Florio the lexicographer……Page 239
Readings through Florio’s dictionary……Page 247
Gender and the language arts……Page 260
Pietro Carmeliano, Carmen. London: Richard Pynson, 1508, A1r and E4r…….Page 271
Pietro Aretino, Lettere, vol. II, Francesco Erspamer, ed. Parma: Ugo Guanda, 1998, 3-6…….Page 272
Zanobio Ceffino, Stanze di Zanobio Ceffino cittadino fiorentino sopra l’eresia del re d’Inghilterra e sopra la morte di Tommaso Moro gran cancelliero.………Page 273
Girolamo Pollini, Historia ecclesiastica della rivoluzion d’Inghilterra. Rome: Facciotti, 1594, 359-360…….Page 274
Giovanni Alberto Albicante, Il sacro et divino sponsalitio. Milan: Moscheni, 1555…….Page 275
Archivio di Stato Firenze, Fondo Mediceo del Principato, f. 4183, 30r-32v. Transcribed by Piero Rebora in ‘‘Uno scrittore toscano sullo scisma d’Inghilterra ed una lettera della………Page 276
Appendix II……Page 278
Introduction……Page 281
1 The two roses……Page 284
2 Reformations……Page 299
3 La Regina Helisabetta……Page 319
4 Language lessons……Page 331
5 Worlds of words……Page 341
Primary Sources……Page 357
Secondary Sources……Page 363
Index……Page 382