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When Is a Translation Not a Translation? : Girolamo Manfredi's De homine (1474)
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- This article investigates the claims made in the dedicatory epistle to Girolamo Manfredi's De homine (also known as Il libro del perché) to have effected an Italian translation of various earlier works. First published in 1474, the De homine is strongly dependent on the pseudo-Aristotelian Problems, for which several translations into Latin were available by Manfredi's time as well as the highly influential commentary by Pietro d'Abano. Focusing on one particular section of the De homine (II.x), on voice, this article offers an analysis of the various sources used and of the extent to which Manfredi is indeed offering a translation or something different. This study concludes that Manfredi closely followed the translation by Bartolomeo da Messina and the commentary by Pietro d'Abano; it finds no clear evidence of his use of the translations by George of Trebizond or Theodore Gaza. Other sources used include especially Rhazes' Ad Almansorem. [Publisher's text]
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ISSN: 1972-5558
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In this issue
- In other words translating philosophy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : introduction
- Ficino's Self-Translation of the De amore : Some Linguistic Remarks
- En language latin et francoys communiqué : Antoine Mizauld's Astrometeorological Self-Translations
- Lambert Daneau as Translator : The Physique Françoise and the Traitté du monde (Peri kosmou)
- Machiavelli aristotelico nella Francia del XVI secolo : un'operazione linguistica
- Anonymous to this Day : Aristotle and the Question of Verse
- When Is a Translation Not a Translation? : Girolamo Manfredi's De homine (1474)
- Fausto da Longiano's Meteorologia (1542) and the Vernacular Transformations of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century
- What's in a Verb? : The Story of a Word in Translation in Meteorology II between Latin and Vernacular
- Aristotelian Cometary Theory in Italian : Effects of Comets from the Mid-Sixteenth Century to Galileo Galilei
- From Greek into Italian : Giulio Ballino's Translation of the Pseudo-Aristotelian On the Virtues and Vices
- Abbracciare la dottrina di Aristotele, or Translating beyond Translations : Bartolomeo Cavalcanti's Retorica (1559)
