Vernacular Translation In Dante S Italy

Author : Alison Cornish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495387

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Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy by Alison Cornish Pdf

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.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015049722096

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Inferno by Dante Alighieri Pdf

The first of the 3 canticles in "La divina commedia "(The Divine Comedy), this 14th-century allegorical poem begins Dante's imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. There he encounters historical and mythological creatures -- each symbolic of a particular vice or crime. Translated beautifully by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 025332968X

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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Inferno. Italian text and verse translation by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781621074915

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Dante's Divine Comedy in Plain and Simple English (Translated) by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough--and it is! If you can understand it! If you don't understand it, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Author : Julie Van Peteghem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789004421691

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Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch by Julie Van Peteghem Pdf

In Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch, Julie Van Peteghem examines Ovid’s influence on Italian poetry from its beginnings, through Dante, to Petrarch, situating it within the history of reading Ovid in medieval and early modern Italy.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 1173 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

A new edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic verse translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, including all three volumes of Dante's classic trilogy: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The Divine Comedy (or Divina Commedia) is an epic-length narrative poem, written between 1308 and 1320 in the vernacular Tuscan of the era, that is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and a foundational work of the literary canon. The poem traces the narrator's journey through the afterlife -- visiting first hell, then purgatory, and then paradise -- and presents an imaginative vision of the afterlife that provides great insight into the medieval Catholic worldview. Longfellow's verse translation was originally published in 1867 and is considered to be a literary masterpiece in its own right.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015008646633

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A Translation of the Latin Works of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : William Caferro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351849463

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The Routledge History of the Renaissance by William Caferro Pdf

Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as one of ongoing change within an international framework. It takes as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods, ideas, disease and people, across social, religious, political and physical boundaries. Covering a broad range of temporal periods and geographic regions, the chapters discuss topics such as the material cultures of Renaissance societies; the increased popularity of shopping as a pastime in fourteenth-century Italy; military entrepreneurs and their networks across Europe; the emergence and development of the Ottoman empire from the early fourteenth to the late sixteenth century; and women and humanism in Renaissance Europe. The volume is interdisciplinary in nature, combining historical methodology with techniques from the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology and literary criticism. It allows for juxtapositions of approaches that are usually segregated into traditional subfields, such as intellectual, political, gender, military and economic history. Capturing dynamic new approaches to the study of this fascinating period and illustrated throughout with images, figures and tables, this comprehensive volume is a valuable resource for all students and scholars of the Renaissance.

Author : Christoph Lehner
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443891813

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Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts by Christoph Lehner Pdf

In the course of 750 years, Dante Alighieri has been made into a universally important icon deeply engrained in the world’s cultural memory. This book examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history by exploring the intermedial relationship between Dante’s Divina Commedia, the tradition of his iconography, and selected historical, literary and artistic responses from British artists in the 19th and 20th centuries. The images and iconographies created out of Dantean appropriations almost always centre around the triad of allegory, authority and authenticity. These three important aspects of revisiting Dante are found in the Dantean image fostered in Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries and feature prominently in the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, T. S. Eliot and Tom Phillips. Their appropriation of Dante represents landmarks in the productive reception of the Florentine, and is invariably linked to a tradition of Dante studies established in Britain during the middle of the 19th century. For Dante Gabriel Rossetti the Florentine provides a model for Victorian Dantean self-fashioning and becomes an allegory of authenticity and morality. For T. S. Eliot, Dante represents the voice of literary authority in Modernist poetry and serves as the allegory of a visionary European author. For Tom Phillips, the engagement with Dante and his text represents an intertextual and intermedial endeavour, which provides him with a rich cultural tapestry of art, thought and ideas on the Western world. The main focus of this study, therefore, is on how Dante’s image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence, how fruitfully the Dantean images and his text have been taken up and used for creative and intellectual production in Britain over the course of the past centuries, and what moral, literary, or political messages they continue to convey.

Author : Dante Alighieri,Ciaran Carson
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hell
ISBN : 1862076030

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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri,Ciaran Carson Pdf

The first ever version of Dante by an Irish poet, Carson's Inferno is accented with a vivid Hiberno-English idiom that will surprise and renew the reader's faith in the art of translation. This is a retelling of Dante's epic journey for the twenty-first-century reader.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798863531618

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De Vulgari Eloquentia by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His 'La Comedia' (Comedy) or 'La Divina Comedia' (Divine Comedy) is considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Along with Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Peterarch, they are often referred to as the fathers of Italian literature, or the fathers of the Italian language. They set the stage for the flourishing of vernacular Italian literature that followed. At a time when most poetry was written in Latin, Dante's 'De Vulgari Eloquentia' (On the Eloquence of the Vernacular) discusses the relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages, searching for an 'illustrious' vernacular in the Italian region. The second book is an analysis of the structure of the canto or song, a literary genre developed in the Sicilian School of poetry. He presents an argument for giving vernacular language the same dignity and legitimacy as Latin. In his opinion language was not something static, but something that evolves and needs historical contextualisation. Though it as originally meant to consist of four books, it ends abruptly in the middle of the second book. Dante's Medieval Latin frequently makes use of the first person plural 'we' instead of 'I', and frequently refers to people in the Italian peninsula as 'Latins' rather than Italians which was still commonplace at the time. This is further evidence that the 'Latin' identity remained due to the Holy Roman Empire and Roman Catholic Christianity. The text is presented in the original Medieval Latin, with a literal word-for-word line-by-line translation, and a Modern English translation, all side-by-side. In this way, it is possible to see and feel how Medieval Latin works. Also included is a word list with 3693 Medieval Latin words translated in to English, and 3007 English words translated into Medieval Latin. This book is designed to be of use and interest to anyone with a passion for the Latin language, medieval history, or languages and history in general. Translated by Matthew Leigh Embleton Matthew Leigh Embleton is a language and history enthusiast, musician, composer, and producer living in London. www.matthewleighembleton.co.uk

Author : Christina Neilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107172852

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Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop by Christina Neilson Pdf

Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547378419

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The vision of hell by Dante Alighieri Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The vision of hell" (By Dante Alighieri. / Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. / and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré) by Dante Alighieri. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Marianne Shapiro
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803242115

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De Vulgari Eloquentia by Marianne Shapiro Pdf

Written in 1303-05, when Dante was in political exile from his native Florence, De vulgari eloquentia addresses the problem of how to raise the Italian language to the status of Latin in the esteem of the literate public. It is the fullest and most important document concerning vernacular writing in the Middle Ages—indeed, the earliest work of literary criticism dealing with a vernacular language. Marianne Shapiro offers the most detailed discussion in English of De vulgari eloquentia, whose form and spirit reflect Dante's political unrest and alienation. Hers is the first work in any language to analyze and explain the meaning of the grammatical and rhetorical terminology that Dante used in his treatise. And because her translation—included here—is based on a thorough exegesis of that terminology, it will be recognized as definitive. Shapiro’s translation will be of special interest to medievalists and to serious readers of The Divine Comedy. In a later section, she considers the less precursors of Dante as a writer of the “Romance idiom” and their influence on him. Then she concentrates on the least studied aspects of the treatise in order to reveal its profound affiliations with late medieval grammatical investigations—it is possible to see in Dante “a grammarian beneath the poet.” Her conclusion summarizes the apparent textual contradictions and the significance. Thus, this book provides a thorough historical, philosophical, and rhetorical context for De vulgari eloquentia and a new English translation that is enriched by that scholarship.

Author : Charles Burdett,Loredana Polezzi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789627299

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Transnational Italian Studies by Charles Burdett,Loredana Polezzi Pdf

Transnational Italian Studies is specifically targeted at a student audience and is designed to be used as a key text when approaching the disciplinary field of Italian studies. It allows the study of Italian culture to be construed and practised not simply as the inquiry into a national tradition but as the study of the interaction of cultural practices both within Italy itself and in those parts of the world that have witnessed the extent of Italian mobility. The text argues that Italian culture needs to be considered in a transnational/transcultural perspective and that an understanding of linguistic and cultural translation underlies all approaches to the study of Italian culture in a global context. Contributions deploy a range of methodological approaches to understand and illustrate how language operates, how culture inhabits and constitutes public and private space, how notions of time operate within people’s lives, and the multiple ways in which people experience a sense of personhood. Chapters stretch from the medieval period to the present and demonstrate how transnational Italian culture can be critically addressed through the examination of carefully chosen examples. Contributors: Alessandra Diazzi, Andrea Rizzi, Barbara Spadaro, Charles Burdett, Clorinda Donato, David Bowe, Derek Duncan, Donna Gabaccia, Eugenia Paulicelli, Fabio Camilletti, Giuliana Muscio, Jennifer Burns, Loredana Polezzi, Marco Santello, Monica Jansen, Naomi Wells, Nathalie Hester, Serena Bassi, Stefania Tufi, Teresa Fiore and Tristan Kay.