"An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song": Italian Translations of Hebrew Literature in the Early Modern Period

by Alessandro Guetta, Paris, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO)

This volume presents the culmination of research on an almost ignored literary corpus: the translations into literary Italian of classical Hebrew texts made by Jews between 1550 and 1650. It includes poetry, philosophy and wisdom literature, as well as dictionaries and biblical translations produced in what their authors viewed as a national tongue, common to Christians and Jews. In so doing, the authors/translators explicitly left behind the so-called...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900451502X
• ISBN13: 9789004515024
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 328 Pages