St Catherine of Siena and the power of her dialogic, dramatized word(s) in The Orchard of Syon

ABSTRACT: This paper will focus on St Catherine of Siena by exploring the power of her dialogic, dramatized word(s) in The Orcherd of Syon. This translation, published by Wynkyn de Worde in 1519, is derived from Cristofano di Gano Guidini’s Latin version of St. Catherine’s Dialogo. Conceived as a dialogue between Catherine herself and Christ, the book provides fertile ground for a pragmalinguistic analysis.

Fabio Ciambella is Researcher of English at Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include the intricate relationship between dance and early modern language, historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics, culinary linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. His most recent publications are "Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Corpus-based Approach" (Routledge, 2021) and Teaching English as a Second Language with Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 2024).