The article analyses contemporary Italian poetry translations of two major Romantic works, both written in an Italian form following Italian models: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s much-anthologised “Ode to the West Wind”, a refined experiment with Dante’s terza rima, and Lord Byron’s unfinished mock-epic, Don Juan, composed in ottave after Luigi Pulci’s example. For the former, I consider translations by Roberto Mussapi, Giuseppe Conte, and Bianca Tarozzi; I then compare Giuliano Dego’s, Tomaso Kemeny’s, and Simone Saglia’s versions from Don Juan. Positing that rendering these poems back into Italian, as it were, poses a unique challenge to the poet-translator, the article assesses the formal solutions each adopted by drawing on modern translation theory. Moreover, whenever a rendition, in line with Italian editorial practice for literary classics, is published with parallel English text, attention will be devoted to the potential implications for the translator’s choices.

Varinelli, V., Tradurre le poesie di Shelley e di Byron dalle forme italiane: due casi di studio, <<L'ANALISI LINGUISTICA E LETTERARIA>>, 2024; 32 (1): 27-48 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/271196]

Tradurre le poesie di Shelley e di Byron dalle forme italiane: due casi di studio

Varinelli, Valentina
2024

Abstract

The article analyses contemporary Italian poetry translations of two major Romantic works, both written in an Italian form following Italian models: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s much-anthologised “Ode to the West Wind”, a refined experiment with Dante’s terza rima, and Lord Byron’s unfinished mock-epic, Don Juan, composed in ottave after Luigi Pulci’s example. For the former, I consider translations by Roberto Mussapi, Giuseppe Conte, and Bianca Tarozzi; I then compare Giuliano Dego’s, Tomaso Kemeny’s, and Simone Saglia’s versions from Don Juan. Positing that rendering these poems back into Italian, as it were, poses a unique challenge to the poet-translator, the article assesses the formal solutions each adopted by drawing on modern translation theory. Moreover, whenever a rendition, in line with Italian editorial practice for literary classics, is published with parallel English text, attention will be devoted to the potential implications for the translator’s choices.
2024
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Varinelli, V., Tradurre le poesie di Shelley e di Byron dalle forme italiane: due casi di studio, <<L'ANALISI LINGUISTICA E LETTERARIA>>, 2024; 32 (1): 27-48 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/271196]
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