John Humphreys Whitfield

Essays in Honour of John Humphreys Whitfield

• Author(s): John H. Whitfield

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1975
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A Short History of Italian Literature

• Author(s): John Humphreys Whitfield, John Robert Woodhouse

• Categories: Italian literature

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1980
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• Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Machiavelli

• Author(s): John Humphreys Whitfield

• Categories: Political Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1966
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• Publisher: Russell & Russell Publishers

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Dante and Virgil

• Author(s): John Humphreys Whitfield

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1949
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Machiavelli in the British Isles

• Author(s): Alessandra Petrina

• Categories: Literary Criticism

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-05-13
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• Publisher: Routledge

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 befor...