Title: Italy and the English Renaissance /
Authors: Rossi, Sergio, 1948-; Savoia, Dianella.
Publisher: UNICOPLI,
Year: 1989
Subjects: English literature Italian influences; English literature History and criticism; Renaissance England; Humanists England; Italy In literature.
Contents: Italy and the English Renaissance : an introduction / Sergio Rossi -- Humanism and humanisms in the literature of late medieval England / Douglas Gray -- From Guarino of Verona to John Colet / J.B. Trapp -- The treachery of translation : Wyatt and Surrey's versions of Petrarch's sonnet CXL / Luisa Conti Camaiora -- The Italian sources of Surrey's Aeneid / Arturo Cattaneo -- The death of virtue : from hyperbole to havoc / A.J. Smith -- John Dee and Federico Commandino : an English and an Italian interpretation of Euclid during the Renaissance / Enrico J. Rambaldi -- 'It is an accident that heaven provides' : Shakespeare's providence in Measure for Measure / Richard Proudfoot -- Beyond Aristotle : Giraldi Cinzio and Shakespeare / Caroline Patey -- An English view of Venice : Ben Johnson's Volpone (1606) / Brian Parker -- Ben Johnson's masque Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue / Anna Anzi -- The English Renaissance image of Paolo Sarpi / Ian Ross -- Milton's sonnets and the dignity of English poetry / Marialuisa Bignami -- The 'Commedia dell'arte' and the Caroline stage / Kenneth Richards