Abstract
This volume is a tribute to Domenico Pezzini and to his long and outstanding career as a Professor of English at the Catholic University of Milan, then at the University of Sassari and finally at the University of Verona. Professor Pezzini’s research has focused on such diverse authors as Aelred of Rievaulx, Julian of Norwich, R.S. Thomas and Elizabeth Jennings, and his favourite areas of study include spiritual friendship in mediaeval Latin and vernacular literatures, the relationship between religion and poetry, and mystic writings in Italy and Europe.

The articles included in this volume reflect the range of Pezzini’s scholarly interests, dealing as they do with translations from and into English, Middle English literature, the History of the English Language, and other linguistic and literary topics. Written by a group of colleagues, former students and friends (these different ‘standings’ often overlapping), they are offered in admiration and gratitude for his work as a researcher and a teacher.

Information
Type: Collection
Language(s): English
Year: 2008
Project: English Library
Number of page(s): 491
Code (printed): ISBN 978-88-7699-139-4, ISSN 1974-0603
Code (electronic): ISBN 978-88-7699-140-0, ISSN 1974-0670 - Open Access Publication

Book Sections

Giovanni Iamartino, Maria Luisa Maggioni and Roberta Facchinetti (2008) Introduction. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 15-17.

(2008) Publications by Domenico Pezzini. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 19-27.

Roberta Facchinetti (2008) The Pleasures of Translating. An Interview with Domenico Pezzini. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 29-35.

1. Translation Studies
Marsha L. Dutton (2008) Translatio and interpretatio in the historical works of Aelred of Rievaulx: the meaning of English words. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 39-52.

Roger Ellis (2008) Translation for and by the young in 16th-century England: Erasmus and the Arundel children. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 53-74.

Carmela Nocera (2008) George Pettie and his Preface to The Civile Conversation (1581). In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 75-84.

Massimo Sturiale (2008) Translation: an Elizabethan 'female' art?. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 85-97.

Marina Dossena (2008) “God knows I am no saint”: short notes on two psalms paraphrased by Robert Burns. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 99-113.

Massimiliano Morini (2008) How to do things with poems. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 115-128.

Ruth A. Henderson (2008) Reflections on liturgical translation. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 129-143.

Margherita Ulrych and Simona Anselmi (2008) Applied translation studies and beyond: a socio-historical perspective on a changing discipline. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 145-170.

Gianfranco Porcelli (2008) The fall and rise of translation as a teaching technique. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 171-183.

2. Middle English Literature Studies
Piero Boitani (2008) A reading of The Cloud of Unknowing. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 187-208.

Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavi (2008) Melancholy and dreams in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 209-221.

Alessandra Petrina (2008) Seeing, believing and groping in the dark: a reading of the Reeve’s Tale. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 223-235.

Elisabetta Lonati (2008) “Allas, the shorte throte, the tendre mouth”: the sins of the mouth in The Canterbury Tales. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 237-262.

Nicholas Watson (2008) Partial truths: Julian of Norwich as a vernacular intellectual. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 263-287.

Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (2008) Margery Kempe as pilgrim and mystic writer: a reappraisal from a stylistic perspective. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 289-303.

Luisa Conti Camaiora (2008) The Floure and the Leafe: a source of Keatsian inspiration. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 305-318.

3. History of the Language Studies
Sonia Piotti (2008) Rhetorical conventions of science under the Tudors: Robert Recorde and The Whetstone of Witte (1557). In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 321-330.

Paola Tornaghi (2008) On legal sources in the dictionaries of John Joscelyn and sir Simonds D’Ewes. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 331-354.

Antonio Bertacca (2008) Some remarks on John Donne’s rhymes. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 355-367.

Maurizio Gotti (2008) Linguistic and stylistic features of 18th-century English advertisements. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 369-385.

Annalisa Zanola (2008) Elocution and eloquence in the 18th and 19th centuries: British and American sources. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 387-407.

John Denton (2008) A pronoun’s last stand: lexico-grammatical features of religious English at the turn of the 21st century. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 409-423.

4. Miscellaneous Studies
Cristina Ceron (2008) “But none replies”. Hardy and God: an autistic dialogue. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 427-444.

John Douthwaite (2008) Communion and Alterity. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 445-469.

Virginia Pulcini (2008) Lexical obsolescence among Italian Anglicisms. In: Thou sittest at another boke.... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 471-488.