Moralizing the Italian Marvellous in Early Modern England

Beatrice Fuga holds a PhD in English Studies. After completing her Master’s degree in English Studies, she obtained a funded PhD at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she currently teaches English literature, grammar, and translation. Her research revolves around the reception of Italian novelle in the early modern period and the role of translation in European cultural and political relationships. She has published articles on the reception of Italian novelle in early modern Europe, the interaction between the novella and English early modern theatre, and the materiality of the book. She also works on the translation of medical texts in early modern England, and on the cultural and medical representation of love melancholy and hysteria.Alessandra Petrina is Professor of English Literature at the Università di Padova, Italy. Her research focuses primarily on late-medieval and early modern intellectual history and on Anglo-Italian cultural relations. She has published The Kingis Quair (1997); Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (2004); Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (2009); and Petrarch’s Triumphi in the British Isles (2020). Her latest book is Shakespeare: guida ad Otello (2022).

• List of Contributors1. Introduction: the taming of the mirabile Beatrice FugaSection 1: The moralization of tragedy2. George Turberville and the politics of tragedy, power and love in the Tragical Tales (1574)Alice Equestri3. ‘States in woe’ and ‘wretched wights’: George Turberville’s Tragical Tales and the Italian novelleFlavia Palma4. Geoffrey Fenton and ‘the Italian manner’: moralizing Bandello, exoticizing ItalyLuigi MarféSection 2: Moralizing custom5. Urbino Englished: Castiglione in unfamiliar climeFrancisco Nahoe6. ‘Polished and filed according to the right sence of the author’: domesticating Leonardo Fioravanti’s Il reggimento della peste in Elizabethan EnglandLuca BarattaSection 3: From Orlando to Othello 7. Reverberations of Rodomonte in and around OthelloRichard Hillman8. ‘The immortal part’: Othello, Giraldi Cinzio’s novella, and the power of wordsAlessandra Petrina9. Charlotte Lennox as translator and critic: feminine subjectivity and Italian identity in Giraldi Cinzio’s Gli Ecatommiti and Shakespeare’s OthelloKiawna Brewster Section 4: Moralizing Women10. Appropriating morality: the tale of Ghismonda and the English DecameronElena Spinelli11. Anne Geoffroy‘What followed it were folly to describe’: representing Venice in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure (1566) and the poetics of edification12. Resounding fame in Matteo Bandello’s Novelle (1554) and Geoffrey Fenton’s Tragicall Discourses (1567)Beatrice FugaIndex