Translation and the truth of history Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes José María Pérez Fernández

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Fernández, José María, 1963- author.

Series:

Oxford textual perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War--Translations--History.

Thucydides.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

This volume 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 text 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 Graci?an, 1564) that eventually emerged. These translations were often motivated by various political or expedient uses, which the format of the printed manuscripts reveals

Contents:

Cover

Translation and the Truth of HistoryThucydides between Valla and Hobbes

Copyright

Dedication

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

Introduction

From orality to script: translation, print,and the textual spaces of memory

Translation, history, and its readers

Information and knowledge engineering

Media and history

Protocols

From papyrus to parchment and paper

History and rhetoric, knowledge, and narrative

Thucydides' orations: verisimilitude betweenorality and script, particular and universal

Verisimilitude: documents and textual criticismbetween manuscript and print

Particulars and universals. Information andknowledge

Authenticating ancient history. Publishingformats for 'the few and better sort of readers'and the educated public

1: From Constantinople to Florence

The story of J

Valla's manuscript: translation as conquest andthe anxiety of fixation

2: Valla's Thucydides and its Transitthrough Print

Integrum et verum: BartholomaeusParthenius 1483(?)

Badius, 1513, 1528

Conrad Heresbach, 1527

Stephanus and Fugger, 1564

Stephanus, 1588

Chronography and geometry: the narration of causes and effects

Judgement, enquirie, and the critical method

Cartography, paratexts, and the truth of history

Script, numbring, and the power of tabulae

Arithmetic, cartography, and narrative:Thucydides' method

'Of our conceptions of the past wemake a future'

Conclusions

Script and the truth of history

History and the alphabet, orthography,and grammar

Seyssel, Strozzi, and Kant's educated public

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 14, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191956676

0191956678

9780192690708

0192690701

OCLC:

1574925481

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