Moralizing the Italian Marvellous in Early Modern England

List of Contributors

1. Introduction: the taming of the mirabile

Beatrice Fuga

Section 1: The moralization of tragedy

2. George Turberville and the politics of tragedy, power and love in the Tragical Tales (1574)

Alice Equestri

3. 'States in woe' and 'wretched wights': George Turberville's Tragical Tales and the Italian novelle

Flavia Palma

4. Geoffrey Fenton and 'the Italian manner': moralizing Bandello, exoticizing Italy

Luigi Marfe

Section 2: Moralizing custom

5. Urbino Englished: Castiglione in unfamiliar clime

Francisco Nahoe

6. 'Polished and filed according to the right sence of the author': domesticating Leonardo Fioravanti's Il reggimento della peste in Elizabethan England

Luca Baratta

Section 3: From Orlando to Othello

7. Reverberations of Rodomonte in and around Othello

Richard Hillman

8. 'The immortal part': Othello, Giraldi Cinzio's novella, and the power of words

Alessandra Petrina

9. Charlotte Lennox as translator and critic: feminine subjectivity and Italian identity in Giraldi Cinzio's Gli Ecatommiti and Shakespeare's Othello

Kiawna Brewster

Section 4: Moralizing Women

10. Appropriating morality: the tale of Ghismonda and the English Decameron

Elena Spinelli

11. Anne Geoffroy

'What followed it were folly to describe': representing Venice in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure (1566) and the poetics of edification

12. Resounding fame in Matteo Bandello's Novelle (1554) and Geoffrey Fenton's Tragicall Discourses (1567)

Beatrice Fuga

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Humanidades
• Estudos cultirais

Translation;Early Modern England;Italian Renaissance;Moralization;Italian novella