Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Alison Yarrington , Stefano Villani and Julia Kelly -- Some New Bearings in Travel Literature / Franco Marenco -- Voyagers and Translators in Elizabethan England: Richard Hakluyt, John Florio and Renaissance Travel Collections / Diego Pirillo -- Going South in Fact and Fiction: Two Early Anglo-Italian Travelogues / Werner von Koppenfels -- ‘Under British Eyes’: Italy in Addison’s and Smollett’s Travel Writing / Roberta Ferrari -- Real Tours and Sentimental Journeys: Henry Swinburne and William Beckford in Southern Italy / Sharon Ouditt -- S. T. Coleridge’s Colonial Gaze: Sicily in his Mediterranean Writing / Daniela Corona -- Between Italy and Africa: British Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Sardinia / Owain J. Wright -- ‘This is Tuscany, and Nowhere are the Cypresses so Beautiful and Proud’: D.H. Lawrence’s Travels to Florence, Scandicci and Volterra / Francesca Pieri -- The Clash of the Two Cultures: North and South in W.H. Auden / Luigi Cazzato -- ‘Thou once great seat of Arms, thou Nurse of Heroes’: History and Romanitas in Early-18th-Century London Opera Librettos / Xavier Cervantès -- The Poetics of Travel in Byron and Shelley: Translating Italian Experience into Artistic Distinction / Christopher Thorpe -- Italian Rewritings by Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: From Constructing a Community of Women to Creating a Place of Poetical Freedom / Fabienne Moine -- W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and the Cultural Appropriation of Renaissance Italy / Peter Vassallo -- Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Petrarch: Intralingual and Interlingual Translatio / William T. Rossiter -- Translation as Transfer: Thomas Hoby’s The Book of the Courtier / Niranjan Goswami -- Robert Tofte’s Two Tales, Translated out of Ariosto / Selene Scarsi -- Italian Translations of the Book of Common Prayer / Stefano Villani -- ‘Andate a farvi benedire’ and Other Useful Phrases for the English Traveller in John Murray’s Handbook of Travel-Talk / Barbara Schaff -- ‘Directness, quaintness and squalor’: Aspects of Translation and Transformation in Franco Leoni’s Opera L’Oracolo / Nick Pearce -- Travelling Words: Languaging in English Tourism Discourse / Gloria Cappelli -- Shakespeare all’italiana / Stephen Orgel -- Notes on Contributors.

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This volume explores the fascinating interactions and exchanges between British and Italian cultures from the early modern period to the present. It looks at how these exchanges were mediated through personal encounters, travel writings, and translations, involving a variety of protagonists: explorers, writers, poets, preachers, diplomats and tourists. In particular, this book examines the understanding of Italy as a destination and set of locations, each with their own distinctive geographical character, during a period which saw the creation of the modern Italian state. It also charts the shifts in travelling activity during this period, from early explorers and cartographers, via those taking part in the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries, to more modern poet-travellers and blogging tourists. Drawing upon literary studies, history, art history, cultural studies, translation studies, sociology and socio-linguistics, this volume takes a cross-disciplinary approach to its rich constellation of ‘cultural transactions’.