Renaissance go-betweens
Subtitle: cultural exchange in early modern Europe
By: edited by Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels.
Contributors: Höfele, Andreas, 1950-; Koppenfels, Werner von.
Series: Spectrum literature =; Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ;; 2; Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ;; 2.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.; De Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: English literature -- European influences; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain; Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Literature, Comparative -- English and European; Literature, Comparative -- European and English; Renaissance -- England; Great Britain -- Relations -- Europe; Europe -- Relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Renaissance translator as go-between / Peter Burke; title: Inglese italianato-Italiano anglizzato : John Florio / Manfred Pfister; title: Ash Wednesday in Westminster : Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England / Werner von Koppenfels; title: De Witt, van Buchell, the wooden O, and the yellow M / Paul Frassen; title: John Dee as cultural, scientific, apocalyptic go-between / György E. Szönyi; title: John Wolfe and the impact of exemplary go-betweens on early modern print culture / Sonia Massai; title: Hybrids : learning from a gilded silver beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) / Carlo Ginzburg; title: British cultural history and church history for the continent : John Bale's Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557-59) / Herbert Grabes; title: Machiavellian dissimulation and allegory : the writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney / John Roe; title: Moses as go-between : John Spencer's theory of religious translation / Jan Assmann; title: Another country : Marlowe and the go-between / Richard Wilson; title: Spirits, ghosts, demons in Shakespeare and Milton / Aleida Assmann; title: A membrane has broken : returning from the dead in The Spanish tragedy / Alexander Leggatt; title: The words of Mercury : Shakespeare's love ambassadors / François Laroque; title: Incising Venice : the violence of cultural incorporation in The merchant of Venice / Philippa Berry; title: Iago the essayist : Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare / Catherine Belsey.