Archipelagic Italian Encounters

Travel, Translation, and Community
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-84195-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

Archipelagic Italian Encounters: Travel, Translation, and Community reframes Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies by expanding beyond England's borders to embrace the interconnected cultures of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

Moving past London-centric narratives, this collection of essays challenges traditional frameworks by introducing a diverse cast of writers, travelers, and soldiers—from familiar figures like Thomas Coryate and Gabriel Harvey to lesser-known voices such as Henry Iden, William Fowler, Petruccio Ubaldini, and Tadhg Ó Cianáin—who drew on Italian cultural capital to forge new identities and experiences. The volume reconceptualizes the spatial and geopolitical dynamics of Renaissance exchange, exploring not only travel and translation but also English routes to classical literature via Italian texts, Italian involvement in English colonial administration in Ireland, the Italian-Scottish diplomatic axis, and the cultural geography of diasporic Italian communities across Britain and Ireland, and vice versa.

By adopting archipelagic and global approaches, it dismantles the Anglo-centrism of traditional Renaissance studies and models a richer, more inclusive critical framework that reflects the period's complex networks of mobility, influence, and community.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grogan, Jane

Plescia, Iolanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; TRAVELLERS; 2. Andrew Hadfield, ‘William Thomas: A Welsh Traitor in Italy’; 3. Katrina Spadaro, ‘Cultural Diplomacy between Venice and Odcombe, Somerset: The Provincial-Cosmopolitan Nexus in Thomas Coryate’s Crudities (1611) and Crambe (1611)’; 4. Mícheál MacCraith, ‘Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s Travel Narrative: a Gaelic Irish view of Counter-Reformation Rome’; 5. Jane Grogan and Iolanda Plescia, ‘Petruccio Ubaldini in Ireland: Bearing Witness to an English War Crime’; BOOKS; 6. Neil Rhodes, ‘Gelli, Pico, and the English Circe: Translation and Transmission’; 7. Carla Suthren, ‘“Now shall they know what mighty Love can do”: The Inheritance of Aphrodite in Gismond of Salerne’; 8. Allison L. Steenson, ‘The Library of a Scottish Petrarchist: Master William Fowler’s Italian Books’; 9. Deirdre Serjeantson, ‘“From Tuscan cam my ladies worthi race”: the Fair Geraldine in Ireland and Italy’; COMMUNITIES; 10. Tom Roberts, ‘Peter’s Garden: Italian Cultural Practices in Sixteenth-century London’; 11. Alessandra Petrina, ‘Beyond the “auld alliance”: Cultural Exchanges between Italy and Scotland’; 12. Laetitia Sansonetti, ‘Talk Like an Italian, Write Like a Roman: Gabriel Harvey’s Dreams of Peninsular Sprezzatura’; Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Grogan is a Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. She was President of the International Spenser Society from 2016-18, and Honorary Chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies from 2022-25. Recent books include a critical edition of the first English translation of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia (MHRA, 2020), and the edited volume, Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (OUP, 2020).

Iolanda Plescia is an Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome. She was President of the Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies from 2021-24. Publications include the first Italian translation of Henry VIII’s letters to Anne Boleyn, an edited collection on Elizabeth I (Palgrave), and Italian editions of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, The Taming of a Shrew, Sir Thomas More. She is currently editing Henry VIII for the Arden Shakespeare, Fourth series.