The Power of the Translator: a New History of Cultural Change and Communication

Grant number: FT140100266 | Funding period: 2015 - 2021

Completed

Abstract

Translators are crucial agents of cultural exchange. Understanding how translators construct and perform their role is vital to comprehend societies' conceptions of language and culture. This project aims to produce a new history of cultural change and enhance understanding of the translator’s agency in global communication. This will be achieved by studying the voices of translators as they emerge from manuscripts, prints, and archival documents of the Renaissance, one of the richest periods of cultural interaction between Latin, Greek, and local languages.

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Translating the Crusades. William of Tyre and Matteo Maria Boiardo

Andrea Rizzi

2021-01-01

This article considers Matteo Maria Boiardo’s contribution to the vernacular appropriation and transmission of William of Tyre’s l..

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What is Translation History? A Trust-Based Approach

Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony PYM

2019-01-01

This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the a..

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City, Court, Academy Language Choice in Early Modern Italy

ED Soldato, A Rizzi

2018-01-01

Court,. Academy. This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It..

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Editing and Translating Pliny in Renaissance Italy: Agency, collaboration and visibility

A Rizzi

2018-01-01

The present article applies a recent approach concerning visibility and agency articulated by Mairi McLaughlin, Theo Hermans and S..

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Introduction: City, Court, Academy

A Rizzi, E Del Soldato

2018-01-01

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel in..

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Introduction: Trust and Proof

A Rizzi, C Troup

2018-01-01

Translators’ contribution to the vitality of textual production in the Renaissance is still often vastly underestimated. Drawing o..

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Rocking the Boat: Language and Identity on an Early

A Rizzi, E Horodowich

2018-01-01

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel in..

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Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture

A Rizzi

2018-01-01

Translators’ contribution to the vitality of textual production in the Renaissance is still often vastly underestimated. Drawing o..

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Monkey Business: Imitatio and Translators’ Visibility in Renaissance Europe

A Rizzi

2017-01-01

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Vernacular Translators in Quattrocento Italy. Scribal Culture, Authority, and Agency

A RIZZI

2017-01-01

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Interpretation and Translation: Leonardo Bruni and the Art of Translation in Quattrocento Florence

A RIZZI

2016-10-31

This volume honours F.W. (Bill) Kent (1942-2010), internationally renowned scholar of Renaissance Florence and founding editor of ..

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The Renaissance of Anonymity

Andrea Rizzi, John Griffiths

2016-03-01

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Violent Language in Early Fifteenth-century Italy: the Emotions of Invectives

Andrea Rizzi

2015-01-01

Early modern Italian audiences were accustomed to hearing and exchanging insults publicly. Italian public and semi-public spaces e..

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