Di Martino, Giovanna; (2023) Translating Ancient Greek Tragedy in 16th- Century Italy. In: Bastin-Hammou, Malika and Di Martino, Giovanna and Dudouyt, Cécile and Jackson, Lucy CMM, (eds.) Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries). (pp. 137-158). De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany.

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Abstract

The present chapter provides an analysis of the interplay and overlap between translations of ancient Greek tragedy and the creation of new tragedies aimed at establishing the tragic genre in 16th-century Italy. It makes the case that the theoretical roots of imitation in this period lay in Aristotle’s Poetics, which was used to justify and ground the generally free and emulative approach to ancient Greek tragedy in its translation as well as recreation. The chapter demonstrates how the playwrights and translators were fully aware of their imitative approach which resulted in the hybrid nature of their works, in between translations and adaptations. The hybridity of these tragedies/translations alsoemerges from the very labels attached to them by later scholarship. The latter part of the chapter thus focuses on ‘volgarizzamento’ in particular, its history as a term and its validity for 16th-century translations of ancient Greek tragedy.

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