Translation and the Truth of History
Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes
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2026
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-790220-2 (ISBN)
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Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues that in intellectual history, the format in which the contents are produced--such as the size of the texts and the editorial design--determine the reception of the ideas they materialize.
This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed through the hands of several editors and publishers who rendered it into print, the History of the Peloponnesian War also underwent a series of significant adaptations and changes, most telling in the vernacular versions in French (Claude de Seyssel, 1527), Italian (Francesco Strozzi, 1545), English (Thomas Nicholls, 1550), and Spanish (Diego Gracián, 1564) that eventually emerged. These translations were often motivated by various political or expedient uses, which the format of the printed manuscripts reveals. The book concludes with an in-depth look at the debut in print of one the most relevant political philosophers of modernity, Thomas Hobbes' Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre. Readers will come away understanding the profound extent to which the material history of a text conditions its reception and status, and our very sense of history itself.
This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed through the hands of several editors and publishers who rendered it into print, the History of the Peloponnesian War also underwent a series of significant adaptations and changes, most telling in the vernacular versions in French (Claude de Seyssel, 1527), Italian (Francesco Strozzi, 1545), English (Thomas Nicholls, 1550), and Spanish (Diego Gracián, 1564) that eventually emerged. These translations were often motivated by various political or expedient uses, which the format of the printed manuscripts reveals. The book concludes with an in-depth look at the debut in print of one the most relevant political philosophers of modernity, Thomas Hobbes' Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre. Readers will come away understanding the profound extent to which the material history of a text conditions its reception and status, and our very sense of history itself.
José María Pérez Fernández is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Translation at the University of Granada in Spain. His research in comparative literature centers largely on early modern translation and cultural studies. He is the author of numerous articles which have appeared in books and such journals as Renaissance Quarterly, Translation and Literature, and Sendebar.
Acknowledgements
1: From Papyrus to Parchment and Paper, from Alexandria to Constantinople and Europe.
2: Valla's Thucydides and its Transit through Print.
3: Vernacular Translations: History as Counsel and Pattern for Political Communication.
4: Hobbes' Thucydides: Geometry and the Truth of History
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Textual Perspectives |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-790220-0 / 0197902200 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-790220-2 / 9780197902202 |
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