The reception of Ortensio Lando’s Paradossi cioè sentenze fuori del comun parere at the Elizabethan Inns of Court via the French translation of Charles Estienne conceived as a manual of jocose moot cases for his selected audience, the law apprentices of the parliament of Paris, is the general subject of this study. The Defence of Contraries Paradoxes against common opinion, here reproduced in the appendix, was hastily published in 1593 by Anthony Munday. the 12 paradoxes were translated from the French ad likewise addressed to the lawyers and wits at the London Inns of Court, at the time a vital centre of coterie writing, scholarship and patronage. Paradox became endemic in the late 1500s in England and lawyers-poets like Francis Bacon, the young John Donne and his friends shot the pointe assassine of paradox from the safehold of the Inns of Court. In the 1600s Paradox became a character in The Masque of Mountbanks, represented at the Inns to honour Francis Bacon. Closer in spirit to Lando than to Cicero, Paradox at the Inns expressed the pathos of radical change, and the firm belief in the need and possibility of a complete exit from the commonly accepted order of life.

Grimaldi, P. (2007). The Ways of Paradox from Lando to Donne. Firenze : Leo S. Olschki.

The Ways of Paradox from Lando to Donne

GRIMALDI, PATRIZIA
2007-01-01

Abstract

The reception of Ortensio Lando’s Paradossi cioè sentenze fuori del comun parere at the Elizabethan Inns of Court via the French translation of Charles Estienne conceived as a manual of jocose moot cases for his selected audience, the law apprentices of the parliament of Paris, is the general subject of this study. The Defence of Contraries Paradoxes against common opinion, here reproduced in the appendix, was hastily published in 1593 by Anthony Munday. the 12 paradoxes were translated from the French ad likewise addressed to the lawyers and wits at the London Inns of Court, at the time a vital centre of coterie writing, scholarship and patronage. Paradox became endemic in the late 1500s in England and lawyers-poets like Francis Bacon, the young John Donne and his friends shot the pointe assassine of paradox from the safehold of the Inns of Court. In the 1600s Paradox became a character in The Masque of Mountbanks, represented at the Inns to honour Francis Bacon. Closer in spirit to Lando than to Cicero, Paradox at the Inns expressed the pathos of radical change, and the firm belief in the need and possibility of a complete exit from the commonly accepted order of life.
2007
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Grimaldi, P. (2007). The Ways of Paradox from Lando to Donne. Firenze : Leo S. Olschki.
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