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    Chapter Baretti polemista e traduttore in A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry

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    HASHEM ABDO KHALAF, Omar cc
    Language
    Italian
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96657
    Keywords
    A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry; England; Voltaire; poetry; language
    DOI
    10.36253/979-12-215-0448-4.11
    ISBN
    9791221504484, 9791221504484
    Publisher
    Firenze University Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.fupress.com/
    Publication date and place
    Florence, 2024
    Series
    Biblioteca di storia, 48
    Classification
    Linguistics
    Translation and interpretation
    General and world history
    Pages
    10
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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