This article takes as its subject the remarkable diary kept by a young English gentleman named John North from 1575 to 1579. On his journey home from Italy in 1575–77, North changed the language of his diary from English to Italian. On his return to London, he continued to keep a record of his everyday life in Italian. This article uses North’s diary as a starting point from which to reconstruct the social and sensory worlds of a returned traveler and Italianate gentleman. In doing so, it offers a way of bridging the gap between individual experiences and personal networks on the one hand, and the wider processes of cultural encounter and linguistic contact on the other.

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约翰·诺斯的意大利伦敦：早期现代英格兰的文化接触和语言相遇

本文以一位名叫约翰·诺斯的年轻英国绅士在 1575 年至 1579 年所写的非凡日记为主题。在 1575 年至 77 年从意大利回家的路上，诺斯将日记的语言从英语改为意大利语。回到伦敦后，他继续用意大利语记录自己的日常生活。本文以诺斯的日记为起点，重构了一位归来的旅行者和意大利绅士的社会和感官世界。在这样做的过程中，它一方面提供了一种弥合个人经历和个人网络之间差距的方法，另一方面是更广泛的文化接触和语言接触过程。