1st Edition
City, Court, Academy Language Choice in Early Modern Italy
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
Biography
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.
