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‘“Questo discorso… fu fatto in lingua Italiana”: multilingualism, translation and pseudo-translation in the Satyre Menippée in light of a contemporary Italian manuscript translation (c. 1594)
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De Smet, Ingrid (2021) ‘“Questo discorso… fu fatto in lingua Italiana”: multilingualism, translation and pseudo-translation in the Satyre Menippée in light of a contemporary Italian manuscript translation (c. 1594). Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 83 (2). pp. 279-302. ISSN 0006-1999.
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Abstract
A contemporary Italian manuscript translation (Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Special Collections, MSB 135) lends a new perspective on the early reception of the Satyre Menippée (1593/94), one of the most notorious pamphlets of the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598), which is itself presented as a French translation from an intercepted Italian manuscript. This article offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which the anonymous, Italian “Satira Menippea” handles the multilingual aspects of its source text and the trope of the pseudo-translation, in comparison with the printed English translation of 1595. Unlike the adaptive approach of the latter, the more sober, functional character of the Italian translation and its preservation of any Latin passages suggest that this handwritten version was probably not intended for publication. It is argued, instead, that the “Satira menippea” was associated with the foreign intelligence gathering on le cose di Francia for the benefit of an Italian city state such as Venice or Florence, or the Papacy in Rome.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France D History General and Old World > DG Italy P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures Faculty of Arts > Centre for the Study of the Renaissance |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance | ||||||
| Publisher: | Librairie Droz S.A. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0006-1999 | ||||||
| Official Date: | August 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 83 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 279-302 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © Copyright 2021 by Librairie Droz S.A., 11, rue Massot, Genève | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 August 2021 |
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