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This volume breaks new ground in the exploration of Anglo-Italian cultural relations: it presents analyses of a wide range of early modern Italian texts adapted into contemporary English culture, often through intermediary French translations. When transposed into English, their Italian origin was frequently categorized as marvellous and consequently censured because of its strangeness: thus, English translators often gave their public a moralized and tamed version of Italy's uniqueness. This volume's contributors show that an effective way of moralizing Italian custom was to exoticize its origins, in order to protect the English public from an Italianate influence. This ubiquitous moralization is visible in the evolution of the concept of tragedy, and in the overtly educational aim acquired by the Italian novella, adapted for an allegedly female audience. Through the analysis of various literary genres (novella, epic poem, play, essay), the volume focuses on the mechanisms of appropriation and rejection of Italian culture through imported topoi and narremes.
Contents
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: the taming of the mirabile
Beatrice Fuga
Section 1: The moralization of tragedy
2. George Turberville and the politics of tragedy, power and love in the Tragical Tales (1574)
Alice Equestri
3. 'States in woe' and 'wretched wights': George Turberville's Tragical Tales and the Italian novelle
Flavia Palma
4. Geoffrey Fenton and 'the Italian manner': moralizing Bandello, exoticizing Italy
Luigi Marfé
Section 2: Moralizing custom
5. Urbino Englished: Castiglione in unfamiliar clime
Francisco Nahoe
6. 'Polished and filed according to the right sence of the author': domesticating Leonardo Fioravanti's Il reggimento della peste in Elizabethan England
Luca Baratta
Section 3: From Orlando to Othello
7. Reverberations of Rodomonte in and around Othello
Richard Hillman
8. 'The immortal part': Othello, Giraldi Cinzio's novella, and the power of words
Alessandra Petrina
9. Charlotte Lennox as translator and critic: feminine subjectivity and Italian identity in Giraldi Cinzio's Gli Ecatommiti and Shakespeare's Othello
Kiawna Brewster
Section 4: Moralizing Women
10. Appropriating morality: the tale of Ghismonda and the English Decameron
Elena Spinelli
11. Anne Geoffroy
'What followed it were folly to describe': representing Venice in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure (1566) and the poetics of edification
12. Resounding fame in Matteo Bandello's Novelle (1554) and Geoffrey Fenton's Tragicall Discourses (1567)
Beatrice Fuga
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