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Machiavelli in the British Isles - Two Early Modern Translations of The Prince (Paperback)
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Machiavelli in the British Isles - Two Early Modern Translations of The Prince (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
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Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of
Machiavelli's The Prince in sixteenth-century England and Scotland
through the analysis of early English translations produced before
1640, surviving in manuscript form. This study concentrates on two
of the four extant sixteenth-century versions: William Fowler's
Scottish translation and the Queen's College (Oxford) English
translation, which has been hitherto overlooked by scholars.
Alessandra Petrina begins with an overview of the circulation and
readership of Machiavelli in early modern Britain before focusing
on the eight surviving manuscripts. She reconstructs each
manuscript's history and the afterlife of the translations before
moving to a detailed examination of two of the translations.
Petrina's investigation of William Fowler's translation takes into
account his biography, in order to understand the Machiavellian
influence on early modern political thought. Her study of the
Queen's College translation analyses the manuscript's provenance as
well as technical details including writing and paper quality.
Importantly, this book includes annotated editions of both
translations, which compare the texts with the original Italian
versions as well as French and Latin versions. With this volume
Petrina has compiled an important reference source, offering easy
access to little-known translations and shedding light on a
community of readers and scholars who were fascinated by
Machiavelli, despite political or religious opinion.
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