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Author Refini, Eugenio, 1984- author.

Title The vernacular Aristotle : translation as reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy / Eugenio Refini
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series Classics after antiquity
Classics after antiquity.
Contents Introduction : Translation as reception -- 1. Taming the philosopher -- 2. The master of those who know (and those who don't) -- 3. Family business : Readying the ethics for the layman -- 4. The philosopher, the humanist, the translator and the reader -- 5. Abridging the philosopher(s) -- Conclusion : The spirit in the crystal bottle
Summary This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It considers translation in a broad sense, looking at commentaries, compendia, rewritings, and abridgments alongside vernacular versions of Aristotle's works. Translation is thus taken as quintessential to the very notion of reception, with a focus on the dynamics -- cultural, social, material -- that informed the appropriation and reshaping of the 'master of those who know' on the part of vernacular readers between 1250 and 1500. By looking at the proactive and transformative nature of reception, this book challenges traditional narratives about the period and identifies the theory and practice of translation as a liminal space that facilitated the interaction between lay readers and the academic context while fostering the legitimation of the vernacular as a language suitable for philosophical discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Aristotle -- Translations into Italian -- History and criticism
Aristotle
Philosophy, Ancient -- Translations -- History and cricitism
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108693684
1108693687
9781108661614
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