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My own worst enemy : translating Hamartia in sixteenth-century Italy
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Brazeau, Bryan (2019) My own worst enemy : translating Hamartia in sixteenth-century Italy. Renaissance and Reformation, 41 (4). pp. 9-42. doi:10.7202/1061913ar ISSN 0034-429X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.7202/1061913ar
Abstract
This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early Latin translations and commentaries initially translated the term as error, mid-Cinquecento literary critics and theorists frequently used a term that implied sin: peccatum/peccato. Was this linguistic choice among sixteenth-century translators indicative of a broader attempt to Christianize the Poetics? While there were significant attempts on the part of translators and commentators to moralize the Poetics, this study of how hamartia was translated suggests that such interpretations were not Counter-Reformation distortions of Aristotle’s Poetics but rather part of a broader program of cultural translation—expressing the linguistic influence of a religious public, but not necessarily a moralizing interpretation—domesticating the Greek philosopher for an early modern Christian audience.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Liberal Arts |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Tragedy, Tragic, The, Aristotle -- Poetics, European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Renaissance and Reformation | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | University of Toronto; Victoria College, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0034-429X | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2019 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 9-42 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.7202/1061913ar | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © 1964-2018 Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance; the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society; the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium; and The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this site is prohibited. | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 1964-2020 Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 January 2019 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 December 2019 | ||||||||||||
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