{"id":1838,"date":"2017-06-02T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2017-06-02T21:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:50:45","slug":"book-announcement-elizabeth-is-italian-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-elizabeth-is-italian-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlo M. Bajetta (ed.), Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017<\/h2>\n

Hardcover and e-book:\u00a0lxxvii + 285 pages
\nPublisher:\u00a0Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2017
\nLanguage:\u00a0English
\nISBN-10:\u00a01137442328
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1137442321
\nSeries: \u201cQueenship and Power\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contents\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction (pp. xxi- lxxvii)
\nLetters 1-29 (pp. 1-250)
\nAppendix 1 [letter 30] (pp. 251-259)
\nBibliography (pp. 261-275)
\nIndex of names (pp. 277- 285)<\/p>\n

With 9 illustrations from the original manuscripts<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>About the volume<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the first edition ever of the Queen\u2019s correspondence in Italian. These letters cast a new light on her talents as a linguist and provide interesting details as to her political agenda, and on the cultural milieu of her court. This book provides a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence concerning Elizabeth\u2019s learning and use of Italian, and of the activity of the members of her \u2018Foreign Office.\u2019 All of the documents transcribed here are accompanied by a short introduction focusing on their content and context, a brief description of their transmission history, and an English translation.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAn important work which anyone interested in Elizabeth and her court should read, Elizabeth I\u2019s Italian Letters shows how significant the queen\u2019s skill in foreign languages was in establishing her position as a successful monarch. Italian was the language of diplomacy as well as European culture, and this volume, painstakingly assembled by Professor Bajetta after years of archival research, demonstrates the central role it played in English politics and intellectual life. The substantial introduction, based on serious scholarship but written with a light touch, provides a wonderful analysis of Elizabeth\u2019s secretariat at work, carefully reading elusive clues to show how the monarchy and its bureaucracy functioned from day to day. The volume will be of use to scholars for many years, but there is much here that will inform and engage general readers eager to understand the work that went into the myth of Gloriana.\u201d (Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex, UK<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

\u201cA wonderful resource for students and scholars alike. Bajetta has provided elegant translations of Elizabeth I\u2019s Italian letters, together with insightful commentary on their political and cultural significance. Elizabeth I\u2019s Italian Letters should be required reading for anyone interested in the history of Elizabethan England.\u201d (Elizabeth Goldring, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, UK<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carlo M. Bajetta (ed.), Elizabeth I’s Italian Letters New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 Hardcover and e-book:\u00a0lxxvii + 285 pages Publisher:\u00a0Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2017 Language:\u00a0English ISBN-10:\u00a01137442328 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1137442321 Series: \u201cQueenship and Power\u201d Contents\u00a0 Introduction (pp. xxi- lxxvii) Letters 1-29 (pp. 1-250) Appendix 1 [letter 30] (pp. 251-259) Bibliography (pp. 261-275) Index of names (pp. 277- 285) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}