Acquisition Through Translation: Towards a Definition of Renaissance Translation (Medieval Translator, 18, Band 18) - Softcover

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Alessandra Petrina is Professor of English Literature at the University of Padua. Her research focuses primarily on late-medieval and early modern intellectual history, and on Anglo-Italian cultural relations. She has published, among others, The Kingis Quair (1997), Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England (24), and Machiavelli in the British Isles (29). In 213 she edited Volume 15 of The Medieval Translator (In principio fuit interpres). She is currently working on early modern English translations of Petrarch's Triumphi, and on early modern marginalia. Federica Masiero graduated from the University of Padua in 1997 with a thesis on the reprint of September Testament in Adam Petri's printing office (1522-1523). In 24 she received her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the critical edition of the main works by Bartholomäus Ringwaldt (153/1531-1599). From 21 to 26 she worked as a part time Professor of German Language at the University of Calabria. Since 27 she has been a Senior Lecturer of German Language at the University of Padua. She has now a national abilitazione as Associate Professor.