Summary Although much work has been done in the field of Renaissance Studies, at present there is no book which offers a comparative overview of the linguistic interaction between Renaissance Italy and the wider world. The present volume is intended to fill this void, representing the first-ever collection of essays that deal with multiple types of language contact and cross-cultural exchanges in and with respect to Renaissance Italy (1300?1600). We bring diverse disciplinary perspectives together: literary scholars, historians, and linguists with different regional expertise; we argue for multilingualism and language contact as products of a period of dynamic change which cannot be fully grasped through a single framework. The contributions present a variety of case-studies by often cross-fertilising their approaches with other disciplinary lenses. This book aims to provide a comprehensive picture of a truly global Renaissance Italy where languages, textual traditions, and systems of knowledge from different geographical areas either combined or clashed. It takes a fresh approach to the history of late medieval and early modern Italy by focusing on East/West linguistic and cultural encounters, transmission of ideas and texts, multilingualism in literature (various genres and various forms of multilingualism), translation practices, reception/adaptation of new knowledge, transculturalism and literary exchanges, and the relationship between languages and language varieties. TABLE OF CONTENTS Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Renaissance Italy ? ALESSANDRA PETROCCHI and JOSHUA BROWN Multilingual Printing ? BRIAN RICHARDSON Communicating in Different Vernaculars: Italo-Romance Intercomprehension in Historical Perspective ? ALESSANDRO CARLUCCI Untraced Polymorphy and Vernaculars in Contact in Renaissance Italy ? JOSHUA BROWN Medieval and Renaissance Venice: Language Contact at Home and Abroad ? RONNIE FERGUSON Latin, Sicilian, and the Adoption of Italian in Malta ? JOSEPH M. BRINCAT Trusting Vernacular Languages in the Italian Renaissance ? ANDREA RIZZI Language Contact between French and Italian in the Sixteenth Century: Evidence from the Diplomatic Letters of Georges dArmagnac ? JENELLE THOMAS The Impact of Aragonese and Castilian Dominations on the Language and Literature of Sardinia ? IMMACOLATA PINTO Libri alienigeni: Evidence of Anglo-Italian Language Contact from the Fifteenth-Century Port of Southampton ? MEGAN TIDDEMAN The Influence of French on Sixteenth-Century Italian ? THOMAS SCHARINGER Ethiopia and Ethiopian Languages in Renaissance Italy ? SAMANTHA KELLY Ascanio Persio and the Greekness of Italian ? HAN LAMERS Hebrew Literature in Italy (1300-1600) ? FABRIZIO LELLI Language Contacts and Contact Languages in Renaissance Naples: From the moresche to Lo cunto de li cunti ? CAROLINA STROMBOLI