- Baretti’s England
- Edited by Elisa Bianco, Alessandra Vicentini
Baretti polemista e traduttore in A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry
- Omar Khalaf
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4.11
This brief essay attempts to shed light on some hitherto unnoticed aspects of Baretti’s approach to translation. A close analysis of his Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry, in fact, reveals that behind the Italian philosopher’s fierce reaction against Voltaire’s Essay on the Epic Poetry of All the European Nations from Homer down to Milton lies a profound analysis of the language and its evocative function. Baretti’s English translations of Italian masters such as Dante, as poor as they seem, become the most obvious demonstration of the unsurpassed beauty and force of the Italian poetic language, whose sounds are so potent and suggestive to hamper any translation effort. Therefore, without relinquishing his typically polemical vein, Baretti anticipates some of the most contemporary approaches towards translation, revealing, also in this aspect, his outstanding intellectual stature.
- Keywords:
- A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry,
- England,
- Voltaire,
- poetry,
- language,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Baretti polemista e traduttore in A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry
Authors
Omar Khalaf
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4.11
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2024
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Book Title
Baretti’s England
Book Subtitle
Figure e momenti del Settecento anglo-italiano
Editors
Elisa Bianco, Alessandra Vicentini
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Number of Pages
200
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2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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