1st Edition
John Florio Bilingualism, Style, and Cultural Mediation
Introduction. John Florio: Biographia Linguistica; Chapter 1 John Florio, “Italus ore, Anglus pectore”; Chapter 2 Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language: Pragmatic and Visual Strategies in Florio’s Fruits; Chapter 3 Lexicography as Self-Translation: Bilingual Florio’s Construction of Identity; Chapter 4 John Florio’s Anglo-Italian Translations; Chapter 5 John Florio and Shakespeare: life and language
Biography
Donatella Montini is Full Professor of English Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where she teaches history of English, stylistics and political linguistics. She is Editor in Chief of Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies. She has published extensively on early modern English language teaching and translation. She has authored a volume on English contemporary stylistics (La stilistica inglese contemporanea. Teorie e metodi, Carocci 2020) and Guida a Re Lear (2024). She has co-edited a book on Queen Elizabeth I’s language and style for Palgrave (Elizabeth I in Writing. Language, Power and Representation in Early Modern England, Palgrave 2018), and a book on the use of non-standard language in fictional texts (The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts, Routledge 2021).
