| The Italian Encounter with Tudor England Contributor(s): Wyatt, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521848962 ISBN-13: 9780521848961 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $130.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 306.440 |
| LCCN: 2006295585 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Italian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |