LONDON, 1584: TRANSLATION AND CULTURAL POLITICS

London, in the year 1584, was a crossroads of cultural exchange, philosophical elaboration, religious dissent. The present contribution focuses on this considering circulation people – especially foreign intellectuals and books: it looks at circle established household French ambassador, Michel de Castelnau; works such as Giordano Bruno’s his Cena le ceneri John Florio’s First Fruites; mediator, William Fowler, translation Machiavelli’s Prince. Through investigation meetings exchanges that took place pivotal attempts to shed light dynamics, supported by book-buying, translation, quotation allusion, constitute fundamental element construction Elizabethan culture.