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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780812303321

Autore

Petrina Alessandra

Titolo

Machiavelli in the British Isles [[electronic resource] ] : two early modern translations of the Prince / / Alessandra Petrina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-315-59314-9

1-317-10291-6

1-317-10290-8

1-282-34448-X

9786612344480

0-7546-9630-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Anglo-Italian renaissance studies

Disciplina

320.1

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Machiavelli's Principe and its Early Appearance in the British Isles; 2 English Manuscript Translations; 3 The Burgess Humanist: A Life of William Fowler; 4 The Fowler Translation: The State of the Manuscripts; 5 The Queen's College Translation: The State of the Manuscript; 6 A Critical Reading and Commentary on the Translations; Appendix 1 The Fowler Translation; Appendix 2 The Queen's College Translation; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Concentrating on William Fowler's Scottish translation and the Queen's College (Oxford) English version, this book investigates four early translations of Niccolò Machiavelli's Prince, surviving in manuscript form, to analyze the impact of this book in sixteenth-century Britain. Petrina traces the history of each manuscript's circulation and readership, presenting annotated editions of the Fowler and Queen's College translations, with comparisons to the original Italian as well as French and Latin versions