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Cornish, Alison, (1963-)

Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy :illiterate literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy :Alison Cornish.
Reminder of title:	illiterate literature /
Author:	Cornish, Alison,
Published:	New York :Cambridge University Press,2011.
Description:	vii, 274 p. ;24 cm.
Subject:	Translating and interpretingHistoryTo 1500.Italy
Subject:	ItalyPolitics and government1849-1870.
ISBN:	9781107001138 (hbk.) :

Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy :illiterate literature /
Cornish, Alison,1963-

Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy :illiterate literature /Alison Cornish. - New York :Cambridge University Press,2011. - vii, 274 p. ;24 cm. - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;83.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-262) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Dressing down the Muses: the anxiety of volgarizzamento; 2. The authorship of readers; 3. Cultural ricochet: French to Italian and back again; 4. Translation as miracle: illiterate learning and religious translation; 5. The treasure of the translator: Dante and Brunetto; 6. A new life for translation: volgarizzamento after Humanism.

"Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in religious experience, the role of scribal mediation, the influence of the Italian reception of French literature on that literature, and how translating into the vernacular became a project of nation-building only after its virtual demise during the Humanist period. Vernacular translation was a phenomenon with which all authors in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - from Brunetto Latini to Giovanni Boccaccio - had to contend"--

ISBN: 9781107001138 (hbk.) :NT$2338

LCCN: 2010022876Subjects--Topical Terms:

566459
Translating and interpreting
--History--Italy--To 1500.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

391982
Italy
--Politics and government--1849-1870.

LC Class. No.: P306.8.I8 / C67 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 418/.020945

Vernacular translation in Dante's Italy :illiterate literature /
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