J H Whitfield

Biographic Data

ID445297
NAMEJ H Whitfield
GIVEN NAMESJ H
FAMILY NAMEWhitfield
SIGNATUREWHITFIELD J H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1938
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
H-INDEX0

  • Alberti in the Intercenali I: Defunctus

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1991

  • Alberti in the Intercenali I: Defunctus

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1991

    In the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsus there is one of the richest, and shortest, of medieval short stories. It is called De Maimundo Servo. On his way back from market, happy at the money he has made, the master meets Maimundus, his lazy and gloomy servant. ‘Don't tell me any nasty rumours’, he says. ‘I won't tell you any nasty rumours, but our little dog is dead.’ ‘How did it die?’ Six questions, six answers, all in single or half lin…

  • The World's Major Languages

    T Gwynfor Griffith, Zygmunt G Baranski et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies1989

  • The World's Major Languages

    T Gwynfor Griffith, Zygmunt G Baranski et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies1989

  • Petrarch and the Birth of Culture

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1983

    When people say to me, Of course, I've read your book, I always know which book they mean, and feel a little disappointment because I would have liked them to know that I had written more than the Short History of Italian Literature. And if they say, Ah yes, it was you who wrote on Petrarch, I am ready to reply, But that was a long time ago, and I would like you to judge me by all the things that I have done since then. In this there is partly th…

  • But Which Foscolo Do You Admire

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1982

    I had tea with the Countess of Lichfield at Shugborough. She had a fund of anecdotes and reminiscences, and in the flow of her multifarious conversation she said a scholar was pursuing manuscripts of an Italian poet which she possessed. I replied that I could guess the scholar and the poet; and, sure enough, it was Foscólo (as she called him), with Frederick May upon his trail. She was, she said, descended from the Russell family, so she may well…

  • Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy

    Open AccessJ H WhitfieldARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1982

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  • Il pastor fido. The Faithfull Shepherd

    Jackson I Cope, Guarini Guarini et al.ARTICLEItalica1980

  • History: Choice and Commitment

    Open AccessJ H WhitfieldARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1979

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  • Dante and the Roman World

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1978

    In the multiplication of books, and cultures, what you most want to know is whether a book is of those that you must cultivate, or those many from which you may avert your eyes. You need, in short, a judgement. Yet by a curious abstinence the modern Italian editor addresses himself to the establishment of a text, without a mention of anything that it might mean for you. There is an example of this single-mindedness in Pier-Giorgio Ricci's edition…

  • Dante and the Roman World

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1978

    In the multiplication of books, and cultures, what you most want to know is whether a book is of those that you must cultivate, or those many from which you may avert your eyes. You need, in short, a judgement. Yet by a curious abstinence the modern Italian editor addresses himself to the establishment of a text, without a mention of anything that it might mean for you. There is an example of this single-mindedness in Pier-Giorgio Ricci's edition…

  • Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800

    Open AccessJ H WhitfieldARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1974

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  • Machiavelli Guicciardini Montaigne

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1973

    No one more than myself had set his face against such self-defence. ‘We didn't do that’: as though the fact of omission cancelled some sector from the account. All syllabuses are children's playpens, when one grows up there are no artificial edges to the scene. Yet there was one case at least where I was as vulnerable as anyone. When I took Schools first in 1928 I did Montaigne as a Set Author. As Gertrude Stein might say, An author is an author …

  • La Belle Charite II: Racine, Molière and the Pastor Fido

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1969

  • La Belle Charite II: Racine, Molière and the Pastor Fido

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1969

    (1969). La Belle Charite II: Racine, Moliere and the Pastor Fido. Italian Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 76-92

  • The Charlecote Manuscript of Machiavelli's Prince

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1967

  • The Charlecote Manuscript of Machiavelli's Prince

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1967

    (1967). The Charlecote Manuscript of Machiavelli's Prince. Italian Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 6-25

  • Leon Battista Alberti, Ariosto, and Dosso Dossi

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1966

    In Sabbadini's classic work on the rediscovery of the codices in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there was a short chapter headed Le jinte scoperte. In this he chronicled those letters from Augustus to Horace, from Phaon answering Sappho, the oration of Catiline replying to Cicero's indictment, and other similar inventions of fifteenth-century scholarship, often merely exercises which had only casually been passed off as ‘finds’. And in th…

  • Sir Richard Fanshawe and the Faithfull Shepherd

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1964

    Since the Aminta, written and performed in 1573, was printed at the end of 1580, it had a ten years' lead over the Pastor fido (published in 1590) as an exportable commodity. And indeed it reached England before its follower and rival, with Thomas Watson's Latin version of 1587. But by the time that Abraham Fraunce converted Watson's Latin into English hexameters in 1591 the Pastor fido was significantly pressing at its heels. In the matter of tr…

  • La Belle Charite: The Italian Pastoral and the French Seventeenth Century

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1963

    per le parti quasi tutte a le quali questa lingua si stende. Dante, Convivio ... si che dovunque il Pastor Fido si celebri, cioè per tutte quelle parti d'Europa, dove la nostra lingua si pregia. Dedica, ed. G. B. Ciotti, 1602

  • The Society's Prize for an Italian Grammar

    J H Whitfield, D B Gregor et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies1962

  • The Society's Prize for an Italian Grammar

    J H Whitfield, D B Gregor et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies1962

  • A Short History of Italian Literature

    Glauco Cambon, J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalica1960

  • Discourses on Machiavelli Vii Gilbert, Hexter and Baron

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1958

    In the large literature inspired by Machiavelli the demonstration has been largely missing. Men have started from an excitement over his ideas, an excitement generated for the most part by the Prince, and have proceeded to general discussion. This gives rarity value to the few investigations which appear, and even Father Walker has earned commendation as the only scholar to examine the problems to which the Discorsi su Tito Livio should give rise…

  • Discourses on Machiavelli Vii Gilbert, Hexter and Baron

    J H WhitfieldARTICLEItalian Studies1958

    In the large literature inspired by Machiavelli the demonstration has been largely missing. Men have started from an excitement over his ideas, an excitement generated for the most part by the Prince, and have proceeded to general discussion. This gives rarity value to the few investigations which appear, and even Father Walker has earned commendation as the only scholar to examine the problems to which the Discorsi su Tito Livio should give rise…