...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Italian language learning in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It highlights the significant contributions of John Florio and Giovanni Torriano in the teaching and learning of the Italian language in England...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume, which is about Italian language learning in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It demonstrates how the impetus for the fruitful engagement with Italian materials in English poetry and drama at the turn...

...This chapter examines how teachers of Italian language in England encouraged their private students and readers alike to attempt translation exercises both from and into the target language as an essential element of their language-learning habits. The language-learning process emphasized Italian...

...This chapter examines the Italian language-learning habits of William Shakespeare. It investigates whether Shakespeare learned Italian by means of a professional language teacher or from his own self-study of the language-learning manuals so popular in the late Elizabethan period. It discusses his...