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Uncle Robin · 02-02-2023, 08:36 PM

I'm mow halfway through Il Principe: testo semplificato in italiano corrente and the publishers have done a great job, it's a lot easier to follow than I expected. It starts with a preface that really drives home the amazing work that translators do. The preface talks about the difficulties and challenges of taking a book written in Medieval Tuscan and putting it into simplified contemporary standard Italian. That left me thinking " if that translation, moving it through time from one language to its child language, was hard, moving an author's thoughts between completely unrelated languages is little short of miraculous"

02-02-2023, 08:36 PM	#42
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,417 Karma: 48736498 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra H2O	I'm mow halfway through Il Principe: testo semplificato in italiano corrente and the publishers have done a great job, it's a lot easier to follow than I expected. It starts with a preface that really drives home the amazing work that translators do. The preface talks about the difficulties and challenges of taking a book written in Medieval Tuscan and putting it into simplified contemporary standard Italian. That left me thinking " if that translation, moving it through time from one language to its child language, was hard, moving an author's thoughts between completely unrelated languages is little short of miraculous" Last edited by Uncle Robin; 02-02-2023 at 08:44 PM.