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Article: 'Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?': Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2007
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'Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?': Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England. By JASON LAWRENCE. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2005. viii + 244PP. 47-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-6914-7.
Jason Lawrence's welcome new study takes as its subject the relation between late sixteenth-century language-learning practice and literary production in England and Scotland in the early modern period. As is well known, the anglophone interest in Italian literary culture increased exponentially throughout the sixteenth century but, until the advent of instructional manuals in the last quarter of the ...