Tudor England: a History

Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship, this original study investigates the role played by Italians and Italian culture in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The small but significant Italian presence in Tudor England is explored through readings of documents and texts written in Italian and Latin, many of them appearing here in English translation for the first time. The second half of the book takes up the career of John Florio, language teacher, lexicographer, translator, and courtier–the most important of the Italians in Tudor England. …