{"title":"‘Tried and tutord in the world’: Shakespeare, Padua, and the figure of the traveller","authors":"Chris Stamatakis","doi":"10.1177/01847678231200364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231200364","url":null,"abstract":"This article locates Shakespeare's Padua, a prestigious site of humanistic learning and eloquence, amidst allusions by his contemporaries. Emphasis is placed on the pleasure and profit derived from travel for pedagogic purposes, yet Shakespeare appears to give equal weight to commonplace fears about the potentially deforming distractions that alluring Italian cities offer unwary English travellers, and about the rival, licentious pleasures that might ensnare and corrupt unsuspecting youth. The final section offers an alternative portrait from the period, hinted at by Shakespeare: travel is recuperated as a readerly activity, and Italy is reconceived of as a text to read, quote, and imitate.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"246 1","pages":"42 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139297472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An introduction to the Padua First Folio","authors":"Allison L. Steenson","doi":"10.1177/01847678231206655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231206655","url":null,"abstract":"This is a brief introduction to the copy of Shakespeare's First Folio currently located at the University Library in Padua and known as the Padua Folio. The volume is considered the earliest Folio copy to have been used as a promptbook by an acting company. It is the only copy of Shakespeare's First Folio in Italy. The essay contains a brief history of the University Library and a detailed catalogue record of the Padua copy, along with a bibliography of relevant sources and a discussion of previous scholarship.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"55 6 1","pages":"132 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139305335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book exchange and Anglo-Italian relations in the Padua circle of Reginald Pole and Niccolò Leonico Tomeo","authors":"Allison L. Steenson","doi":"10.1177/01847678231202737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231202737","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the correspondence network centring around a young Reginald Pole and his tutor Niccolò Leonico Tomeo in Padua during the first half of the 1520s, when, as a student at the beginning of his career, Pole first resided in the Veneto region. Here, this article discusses a specific aspect highlighted in the exchanges between Pole, Leonico, and their circle of mostly English and Italian friends, i.e., the circulation of books and knowledge. Within this framework, this article investigates the relationship between textual exchange, social bonds, and political and professional advancement within a prominent humanist circle.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"40 1","pages":"28 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139298690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The background of The Shrew: Texts and intertexts","authors":"Fernando Cioni","doi":"10.1177/01847678231202755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231202755","url":null,"abstract":"The essay focuses on the relationship between William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the anonymous 1594 quarto The Taming of a Shrew, arguing that A Shrew has its own theatrical and narrative autonomy and that it could reflect a Shakespearean original different from that transmitted through the First Folio. It also examines the dramatic intertext of the Induction, possible sources that influenced both The Shrew and A Shrew, and its theatrical intertexts. The intertexts of The Shrew/A Shrew appear to be a sort of palimpsest of quotations, revisions, and translations, suggesting the possibility of a third, ‘uncut’ version of Shakespeare's play.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"28 1","pages":"77 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139305483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Before Shakespeare, during the Renaissance: John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (d. 1470) and the uses of Padua","authors":"David Rundle","doi":"10.1177/01847678231202752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231202752","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces the deep background to the interest in Italy and specifically Padua displayed by Shakespeare and his contemporaries by attending to the contrasts between their knowledge and that of English characters from a century earlier. Our guide will be John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (d. 1470). He was both well-travelled and much-hated in his homeland: he was accused of bringing home from his time abroad ‘the law Padowe’, that is, ‘the law of Padua’ – a penchant for summary justice and grisly execution. This article considers what Tiptoft's life and afterlife tells us about the changing place of Padua in the English imagination.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"19 1","pages":"14 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139295125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Taming of the Shrew, or, on not knowing Italian (and Latin, and Spanish, and French)","authors":"I. Plescia","doi":"10.1177/01847678231209709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231209709","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes its cue from the important work currently being done to underscore the multilingual nature of early modern English culture, in order to take a fresh look at the ‘Paduan play’ The Taming of the Shrew. I argue that its ‘Italianness’ must be understood within the context of a conscious effort on Shakespeare's part to achieve foreignising effects by foregrounding alien lexical items and linguistic processes.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"5 1","pages":"91 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139294170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shakespeare's Italian place-myths: The Padua–Verona–Mantua nexus","authors":"Keir Elam","doi":"10.1177/01847678231208538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231208538","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to explore Shakespeare's poetics of Italian places and place names, with particular regard to the nexus between Padua, Verona, and Mantua. The primary text of reference is The Taming of the Shrew, especially in relation to John Florio's bilingual conversation manual, Second frutes (1590). While Padua, in this and other plays, is represented as a cultural hub, Mantua, by contrast, is often figured as a spatial elsewhere, a heterotopia or ‘badlands’ associated with transgression and violent death. At the same time, Mantua is at the centre of Renaissance culture, thereby constituting a paradoxical space.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"1 1","pages":"58 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139295724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Padua and Venice: The first complete translations of Shakespeare's plays","authors":"Francesca Bianco","doi":"10.1177/01847678231200362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231200362","url":null,"abstract":"For the Italian cultural milieu, the second half of the eighteenth century is an important moment: along with the rest of Europe, Italy participates in the debate about the theory and practice of vertere. As a result, it is during this period that the discovery and reception of Shakespeare's works begins to take place. This article aims at showing how Italian translation techniques changed and improved over time, and how literati as Melchiorre Cesarotti, Francesco Gritti, and Giustina Renier Michiel contributed to a new literary taste during a complex period in which several poetic genres coexisted.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"19 1","pages":"119 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139291464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a good wife: Nature and habits in Paduan medical culture in the age of Shakespeare","authors":"Massimo Rinaldi","doi":"10.1177/01847678231206383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231206383","url":null,"abstract":"The Renaissance debate on the passions of the soul develops in an atmosphere of intellectual mediations that forges new anthropological codes for the social control of affections. This contribution focuses on some medical texts on passions, circulating in Padua during the sixteenth century, which attempt to answer, on theoretical and therapeutic levels, the questions raised by the confrontation between mores and temperamenta: is it possible to activate a process of domestication of the passions that could bring behavioural deviance within the norm? What are the boundaries of adequate moral or social conduct for a scolding young woman?","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"45 1","pages":"104 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139299517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First Folio and the merchants of Venice: A collection of books from the natio Anglica in Padua","authors":"Lavinia Prosdocimi","doi":"10.1177/01847678231208157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01847678231208157","url":null,"abstract":"The Padua First Folio owned by the Biblioteca Universitaria does not include the original binding, but photos show the shelfmark as having belonged to the Santa Giustina Library. Other English books with the same binding and similar shelfmarks have been found, all coming from Santa Giustina. Some of them contain a mark of ownership by the two John Hobsons, consuls of the English nation in Venice in the seventeenth century, who bequeathed their books to the library of the natio Anglica at Padua University. We know very little about this library, founded in 1649. An Appendix proposes a reconstruction.","PeriodicalId":428479,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers Élisabéthains","volume":"76 1","pages":"144 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139303753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}