Treffer: Chapter «The metropolis of Great Britain»: Londra nelle lettere e nel dizionario di Giuseppe Baretti
Title:
Chapter «The metropolis of Great Britain»: Londra nelle lettere e nel dizionario di Giuseppe Baretti
Authors:
Publisher Information:
Firenze University Press
Publication Year:
2025
Collection:
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Subject Terms:
Giuseppe Baretti, London, letter-writing, bilingual lexicography, Anglo-Italian relations, thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics, thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation, thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
Document Type:
other/unknown material
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image/jpeg
Language:
Italian
Relation:
Biblioteca di storia; ONIX_20241220_9791221504484_449; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96656; https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96656/1/42293.pdf
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Rights:
open access
Accession Number:
edsbas.96D876B3
Database:
BASE
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Giuseppe Baretti was the most famous master of Romance languages in eighteenth-century London, where he spent two long periods, from 1751 to 1760, and from 1766 until his death in 1789. Given his temperament, social attitude, education and interests, as well as the native-like proficiency in English he soon acquired there, he became part of London’s cultural elite and an appreciated linguistic and cultural mediator between Britain and Italy. The present study focuses on the way Baretti described and commented on London – its cityscape, institutions, and inhabitants – in his published letters and the bilingual English-Italian and Italian-English dictionary he compiled.