A Translator's Defense

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-674-08865-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) was an Italian diplomat and a celebrated humanist orator and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he turned away from a commercial career to take up scholarship under the guidance of the great civic humanist, Leonardo Bruni. Like Bruni he mastered both classical Latin and Greek, but, unusually, added to his linguistic armory a command of Biblical Hebrew as well. He used his knowledge of Hebrew to make a fresh translation of the Psalms into humanist Latin, a work that implicitly challenged the canonical Vulgate of St. Jerome. His Apologeticus (1455–59) in five books was a defense of the study of Hebrew and of the need for a new translation. As such, it constituted the most extensive treatise on the art of translation of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains the first complete translation of the work into English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manetti, Giannozzo

McShane, Myron

Weitere Mitwirkende

Young, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Über Autor(innen)

McShane, Myron
Myron McShane is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern French at Dalhousie University.

Young, Mark
Mark Young is the former Principal of the Abelard Centre for Education in Toronto, Ontario, where he continues to teach Ancient Greek, Latin, and history.