Provvidera, Tiziana; (2000) Giordano Bruno's Italian dialogues and late sixteenth-century English book production. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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Bruno's relationship with John Charlewood, the London printer of the Latin and Italian works published by the philosopher while in England from Spring 1583 to Autumn 1585, has so far remained neglected. Detailed information on British printers' work in the period before 1800 is rare compared with that available for some other European countries. Such information, when to hand, has an important part to play in identifying interest (including publishing preferences) linking printers and readers. Chapter 1 therefore focuses on printing practices and regulations of the book-trade during the reign of Elizabeth I in order to determine the 'cultural' trends among the main London printers at that time. This chapter tries also to situate the Italian texts which had appeared in England in the years 1570-90 within this same context. The exploration of Charlewood's book production constitutes the subject of Chapter 2, where a comparison between some of these publications and Bruno's Italian Dialogues justifies the philosopher's choice of applying to Charlewood's press in the light of similar interests and preoccupations. Opening with a brief account of the reception of Italian humanism in England, Chapter 3 aims to provide an adequate background for the study of the diffusion of texts in Italian (whether printed in England or imported from the Continent), which had become very fashionable within sixteenth-century English culture and society. Finally, Chapter 4 is devoted to a survey of possible borrowings by Bruno from contemporary literary and scientific production, and, borrowing from Bruno in early seventeenth-century English texts.

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