Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Renaissance Italy

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Alessandra Petrocchi, Joshua Brown (eds). Pages: 433 p. Illustrations:6 b/w, 8 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Brepols, Publication Year:2023. Hardback -- SUMMARY Although much work has been done in the field of Renaissance Studies, at present there is no book which offers a comparative overview of the linguistic interaction between Renaissance Italy and the wider world. The present volume is intended to fill this void, representing the first-ever collection of essays that deal with multiple types of language contact and cross-cultural exchanges in and with respect to Renaissance Italy (1300‒1600). We bring diverse disciplinary perspectives together: literary scholars, historians, and linguists with different regional expertise; we argue for multilingualism and language contact as products of a period of dynamic change which cannot be fully grasped through a single framework. The contributions present a variety of case-studies by often cross-fertilising their approaches with other disciplinary lenses. This book aims to provide a comprehensive picture of a truly global Renaissance Italy where languages, textual traditions, and systems of knowledge from different geographical areas either combined or clashed. It takes a fresh approach to the history of late medieval and early modern Italy by focusing on East/West linguistic and cultural encounters, transmission of ideas and texts, multilingualism in literature (various genres and various forms of multilingualism), translation practices, reception/adaptation of new knowledge, transculturalism and literary exchanges, and the relationship between languages and language varieties. TABLE OF CONTENTS Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Renaissance Italy ALESSANDRA PETROCCHI and JOSHUA BROWN Multilingual Printing BRIAN RICHARDSON Communicating in Different Vernaculars: Italo-Romance Intercomprehension in Historical Perspective ALESSANDRO CARLUCCI Untraced Polymorphy and Vernaculars in Contact in Renaissance Italy JOSHUA BROWN Medieval and Renaissance Venice: Language Contact at Home and Abroad RONNIE FERGUSON Latin, Sicilian, and the Adoption of Italian in Malta JOSEPH M. BRINCAT Trusting Vernacular Languages in the Italian Renaissance ANDREA RIZZI Language Contact between French and Italian in the Sixteenth Century: Evidence from the Diplomatic Letters of Georges dArmagnac JENELLE THOMAS The Impact of Aragonese and Castilian Dominations on the Language and Literature of Sardinia IMMACOLATA PINTO Libri alienigeni: Evidence of Anglo-Italian Language Contact from the Fifteenth-Century Port of Southampton MEGAN TIDDEMAN The Influence of French on Sixteenth-Century Italian THOMAS SCHARINGER Ethiopia and Ethiopian Languages in Renaissance Italy SAMANTHA KELLY Ascanio Persio and the Greekness of Italian HAN LAMERS Hebrew Literature in Italy (1300 1600) FABRIZIO LELLI Language Contacts and Contact Languages in Renaissance Naples: From the moresche to Lo cunto de li cunti CAROLINA STROMBOLI.

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