The Italian Encounter with Tudor England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521848961)

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.

Author: Michael Wyatt
ISBN-10: 0521848962
ISBN-13: 9780521848961
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2005
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 1.10d