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This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. -- .

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘Mie new London Companions for Italian and French’: modern language learning in Elizabethan England
Petrarch and the Italian sonnet as language-learning tools
William Drummond’s Italian studies
2. ‘A stranger borne /To be indenized with us, and made our owne’: Samuel Daniel and the naturalisation of Italian literary forms
'Delia' and the assimilation of the Italian sonnet
Daniel and Italian pastoral drama
3. ‘Give me the ocular proof’: Shakespeare’s Italian language-learning habits
Shakespeare’s tragicomedic dramatisations of Italian novelle
Marston’s 'The Malcontent' and Guarinian tragicomedy
'Othello', Cinthio and 'Orlando furioso'
Conclusion - Seventeenth-century language learning
Appendix: John Wolfe’s Italian publications
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/06/2006
      ISBN13: 9780719069147, 978-0719069147
      ISBN10: 719069149

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction
      1 ‘Mie new London Companions for Italian and French’: modern language learning in Elizabethan England
      Petrarch and the Italian sonnet as language-learning tools
      William Drummond’s Italian studies
      2. ‘A stranger borne /To be indenized with us, and made our owne’: Samuel Daniel and the naturalisation of Italian literary forms
      'Delia' and the assimilation of the Italian sonnet
      Daniel and Italian pastoral drama
      3. ‘Give me the ocular proof’: Shakespeare’s Italian language-learning habits
      Shakespeare’s tragicomedic dramatisations of Italian novelle
      Marston’s 'The Malcontent' and Guarinian tragicomedy
      'Othello', Cinthio and 'Orlando furioso'
      Conclusion - Seventeenth-century language learning
      Appendix: John Wolfe’s Italian publications
      Bibliography

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