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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the dynamic and productive cultural forces engendered by exiles, wanderers, and diasporic communities in Britain and Italy over more than five centuries. It investigates the historic resonance of transnational encounters and movements between two European cultures that look back on a long history of cross-fertilisation. Drawn from a range of academic disciplines including literary studies, history, musicology, art history and bibliography, it presents the ways in which exiles, émigrés, intermediaries and their attendant cultural perspectives interact with the sometimes repressive, sometimes productive religious or political systems and ideologies that they encounter. This volume pays tribute to the stimulating exchange, circulation, and appropriation that has occurred between Britain and Italy, showing that the condition of displacement can lead not only to the articulation of loss and grief, but also to fruitful forms of interaction.
Table of ContentsBarbara Schaff: Introduction: Paradise of Exiles? Early Cultural Mediations William Thomas Rossiter: ‘Amydde the see’ (‘in alto mar’): Chaucer, Petrarch, and the Poetics of Exile Ralf Hertel: Nationalising History? Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia, Shakespeare’s Richard III, and the Appropriation of the English Past Michael Wyatt: John Florio’s Translation of Kingship: An Italian Baptism for James VI/I’s Basilikon Doron Diplomatic Interventions Donatella Abbate Badin: Lady Morgan, an Ambassador of Goodwill to Italian Exiles Simonetta Berbeglia: James Montgomery Stuart: A Scotsman in Florence Peter Vassallo: John Hookham Frere, Gabriele Rossetti, and Anglo-Italian Cooperation in Exile Owain J. Wright: The ‘Pleasantest Post’ in the Service? Contrasting British Diplomatic and Consular Experiences in Early Liberal Italy Religious and Political Difference Gaby Mahlberg: ‘All the conscientious and honest papists’: Exile and Belief Formation of an English Republican Xavier Cervantes: ‘Null’altra Musica è qui gradita che la nostra’? Cultural Politics, Anti-Catholic Anxiety, and the Italian Operatic Community in London in the 1720s Maurizio Masetti: The 1844 Post Office Scandal and its Impact on English Public Opinion Itinerant Communities Stefano Villani: The Italian Protestant Church of London in the 17th Century Peter Hoare: ‘A Room with a View – and a Book’: Some Aspects of Library Provision for English Residents and Visitors to Florence, 1815-1930 Tony Kushner: Negotiating and Narrating Homelessness: Refugees from the 1930s Perspectives and Poetics of Literary Exile Tobias Döring: Imaginary Homelands? D.G. Rossetti and his Father between Italy and England Fabienne Moine: The Diary of an Ennuyée: Anna Jameson’s Sentimental Journey to Italy or the Exile of a Fragmented Heart Christopher Whalen: ‘A Little Ireland’: James Joyce, Dublin, and Trieste Mara Cambiaghi: The Inner Exile of Beppe Fenoglio Mobile Aesthetics Brendan Cassidy: Gavin Hamilton: A Scots Dealer in Old Masters in 18th Century Rome David Ekserdjian: Crowe and Cavalcaselle then and now Emma Sutton: ‘English Enthusiasts’: Vernon Lee and Italian Opera Notes on Contributors
