Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain

Canzoniere and Triumphi, c. 1530–1650

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Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain gathers twelve essays by international scholars focusing on the translation of Petrarch’s vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) into English, from the Tudor age to the mid-seventeenth century (and beyond). Approaching translation as an interpretive process, but also a mode of literary emulation and cultural engagement with Petrarch’s prestigious precedent, the collection explores the complex and interconnected trajectories of both poetic works in English and Scottish literary milieux. While situating each translation in its distinct historical, material, and literary context, the essays trace the reception of Petrarch’s works in early modern Britain through the combined processes of linguistic and metric innovation, literary imitation, musical adaptation and cultural and material ‘domestication’. The collection sheds light on the origins and development of early modern English Petrarchism as part of wider transnational – and indeed, translational—European literary culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-05
Mått:170 x 240 x 21 mm
Vikt:673 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526173034

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Marie-Alice Belle is Professor of Translation Studies at the Université de Montréal and Associate researcher in English studies at Université Paris III-Sorbonne NouvelleRiccardo Raimondo is Assistant Professor in French Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of CataniaFrancesco Venturi is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Oslo and at the University of L’Aquila

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Introduction – Marie-Alice Belle, Riccardo Raimondo, and Francesco Venturi Part I: Fashioning English Petrarchism: Translation, poetics, and the English miscellany 1 ‘Imitating very naturally and studiously their Maister Francis Petrarcha’: the Englishing of the Canzoniere in the early Tudor period – Andrew Hiscock2 ‘I wote full well where is a file | To frame a learned man’: the unknown Petrarchs of Tottel’s 'Uncertain Authors' – William T. Rossiter3 Rank and style: Petrarch in the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, from Tottel to Donne – Neil Rhodes4 The Cavalier Petrarch: translation and coterie culture in Caroline and Civil War England – Nicholas McDowellPart II: Re-mediating Petrarchan poetry: Lines of transmission and transformation5 ‘Laurae solius in umbra’? Explicating Petrarch in Thomas Watson’s Hekatompathia (1582) – Rémi Vuillemin6 Repeating Petrarch: Rvf 323 and its translations by Clément Marot and Edmund Spenser – Jennifer Rushworth 7.‘After the affection of the noate’: intersemiotic translations of Petrarch in the English madrigal tradition – K. Dawn Grapes and Jeremy L. SmithPart III: Re-framing the Triumphi: genre, paratext, gender 8 Time and mortality in English Renaissance translations of Petrarch’s Italian poems – Alessandra Petrina9 Sign of its times: Lord Morley’s translation of Petrarch’s Triumphi – Massimiliano Morini10 The Castalians, translation and Petrarch in Scotland: the works of William Fowler – Allison L. Steenson11 Anna Hume, translator of Petrarch’s first three Triumphi and ‘glossatrice extraordinaire’ – Brenda M. Hosington12 Envoi: Naturalising the Petrarchan sonnet in Romantic Britain: John Nott’s translations, 1777 and 1808 – Juan Christian PellicerIndex