The Italian Encounter with Tudor England

The small but influential community of Italians in England during the fifteenth century initially consisted of ecclesiastics humanists merchants bankers and artists. However in the wake of the English Reformation Italian Protestants joined other continental religious refugees in finding Tudor England to be a hospitable and productive haven. Michael Wyatt examines the agency of this shifting community of immigrant Italians in the transmission of Italy''s cultural patrimony and its impact on the nascent English nation as well as the exemplary career of John Florio the Italo-Englishman who was a language teacher lexicographer and translator in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.