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Article: The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2007
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The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation. By MICHAEL WYATT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xiv+371 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $90. ISBN 978-0-521-84896-1.
This book studies the sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century encounter between England and Italy as a complex process of' translation'. Wyatt acknowledges the pivotal relevance of language in the encounter between the two nations, but he also deftly and very successfully extends the scope of his analysis by including a broad range of 'figural' instances of translation, non-linguistic intercultural forms of exchange involving politics, religion, and the sense of ...