Acquisition Through Translation: Towards a Definition of Renaissance Translation (Medieval Translator) (Medieval Translator, 18) (English, German and Italian Edition)

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The emergence of standard modern languages in early modern Europa entailed a competition with the dominant Latin culture, which remained the prevalent medium for the language of science, philosophy, theology and philology until at least the eighteenth century. In this process, translation played a very special role: in a number of significant instances we can identify in the undertaking of a specific translation a policy of acquisition of classical - and by definition authoritative - texts that contributed to the building of an intellectual library for the emerging nation. At the same time, the transmission of ideas and texts across Europe constructed a diasporic and transnational culture: the emerging vernacular cultures acquired not only the classical Latin models, incorporating them in their own intellectual libraries, but turned their attention also to contemporary, or near-contemporary, vernacular texts, conferring on them, through the act of translation, the status of classics. Through the examination of case studies, that take into account both literary and scientific texts, this volume offers an overview of how early modern Europe developed its vernacular national literatures, following the model suggested in the late Middle Ages, through a process of acquisition and translation. Front Matter Alessandra Petrina. Introduction: The definition of cultural identity through translation Camilla Caporicci. Turning the Song of Songs into English poetry: Gervase Markham’s Poem of Poems. Or Sions Muse Bryan Brazeau. ‘I write sins, not tragedies’: manuscript translations of Aristotle’s hamartia in late sixteenth-century Italy Carla Suthren. Iphigenia in English: reading Euripides with Jane Lumley Angelica Vedelago. Plutarch in sixteenth-century France and England: an insight into The Life of Coriolanus as translated by Amyot and North Marta Balzi. Lodovico Dolce’s Italian translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the canonization of the Orlando furioso Francesco Roncen. Stess o corpo in ‘cangiate forme’: traduzione fedele e ottava rima nelle Metamorfosi di Fabio Marretti (1570) Ilaria Pernici. The revolution of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Golding’s translation: The Case of Thomas Lodge Petr Valenta. Virgil in Czech: seventeenth century translations and Pastýřské rozmlouvání o narození Páně by Václav Jan Rosa Valentina Gallo. Dall’Agrigento del III sec. a.C. alla Londra di Jonathan Swift Giulio Vaccaro. Tra traduzione, tradizione e identità: il Libro dell ’Aquila Lucia Assenzi. Übersetzen für die Muttersprache. Übersetzung und Fremdwortpurismus in der barocken Sprachreflexion am Beispiel der Verdeutschung des Novellino (1624) Andrea Radošević, Marijana Horvat. Translation Strategies in the Sermon Collection Besjede (1616) written by the Franciscan Matija Divković Alice Equestri. THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF TOMASO GARZONI’S OSPIDALE DE’ PAZZI INCURABILI: THE CULTURAL CONTEXT AND THE REPRESENTATION OF ‘IDIOCY’ Dominika Bopp. Das Sprachlehrbuch Janua linguarum reserata von J. A. Comenius (1592–1670) und seine ersten deutschsprachigen Übersetzungen Roberto De Pol. Il contributo dell’editore Georg Müller di Francoforte e del traduttore Johann Makle alla ricezione della letteratura italiana in Germania nel XVII secolo Anna Just. Übersetzungstexte aus der ehemaligen Bibliotheca Zalusciana (1747–95) als Indikator einer transnationalen Literatur im frühneuzeitlichen Polen Back Matter