The Translation of Aristotle’s Politics by Leonardo Bruni Aretino
Keywords:
rhetorics, paratext, humanism, translation, politicsAbstract
This text examines the nature of written texts through two examples authored by the Italian humanist Leonardo Bruno Aretino. These two texts were written between 1435 and 1438 as a preamble to his translation of Aristotle’s Politics from the Greek into Latin, which he dedicated to Pope Eugene IV. This introductory texts will serve as a starting point to explore the presence, almost ubiquitous in written texts at least since Classical Antiquity, of paratexts that aim to render future readers benevolent toward the text they are about to read and, simultaneously to link permanently the author to the text he has written, marking his presence before the future, unknown and infinite readers of his work.
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BARON, Hans. Leonardo Bruni Aretino. Humanistische-Philosophische Schriften mit einer Chronologie siener Werke und Briefe. Leipzig / Berlin. Verlag und Druck vom B. G. Teubner, 1928, p. 70-74.
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