Acquisiton through translation
Subtitle: towards a definition of renaissance translation
By: edited by Alessandra Petrina and Federica Masiero
Series: The Medieval translator = Traduire au Moyen Âge ; volume 18; Medieval translator -- v. 18.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng; ita; ger
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9782503589541
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Congresses; History
Description: The definition of translation in Renaissance Europe is here proposed as a process of acquisition: the book studies how a number of European languages, finding their identification in the newly evolving concept of nation, shape their countries? vernacular libraries by appropriating ancient and contemporary classics.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.
Notes: Contributions from a conference held in Padua, Italy, May 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-374) and index.

Contributions in English, Italian, and German.