City, Court, Academy: Language Choice in Early Modern Italy

ISBN-13: 9780367881375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Eva del Soldato; Andrea Rizzi

Opis

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the interplay and dynamic exchange of languages in the Italian peninsula, from the early fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it examines the flexible linguistic practices of both the s

Spis treści

Introduction  Eva Del Soldato and Andrea Rizzi  Part I: Speech in the City  1. Rocking the Boat: Language and Identity on an Early Modern Gondola  Andrea Rizzi and Elizabeth Horodowich  2. Languages Around the Pulpit in Quattrocento Florence  Peter Howard  3. Latin and Vernacular in Florence During the Mid-1430s  Luca Boschetto  Part II: Textual Authorities, Innovations, and Subversions  4. Hard Times, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend Cicero: The Loschi–Salutati Controversy  Stefano U. Baldassarri  5. Latin and Italian Vernaculars in Architectural Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance  Anna Siekiera  6. Vernacular Doctors: Philology, Medicine, and Leisure at the Florentine Academy  Eva Del Soldato  7. Latin in Lucrezia Marinella’s Essortationi alle Donne (1645): Subverting the Voice of Authority  Amy Sinclair  Part III: Beyond Latin: Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic  8. De utroque fonte bibere: Latin in the Teaching of Greek Grammar During the Renaissance  Federica Ciccolella  9. The Multilingualism of Don Isaac Abravanel  Cedric Cohen Skalli  10. "This Language Is More Universal Than Any Other": Values of Arabic in Early Modern Italy  Mario Casari

O autorze

Eva Del Soldato is Assistant Professor in the Romance Languages Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
 
Andrea Rizzi is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne.