Translation and the Truth of History : Thucydides Between Valla and Hobbes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Fernández, José María.

Series:

Oxford Textual Perspectives Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

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.

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

Aemilius and Franciscus Portus, 1594

3: Vernacular Translations History as Counsel and Pattern forPolitical Communication

Partial translations: Fernández de Heredia and Melanchthon

Claude de Seyssel, 1527

Thomas Nicolls, 1550

Diego Gracián, 1564

Francesco Strozzi, the Accademia Fiorentina,and Giolito's collana historica

4: Hobbes's Thucydides Geometry and the Truth of History

'Never anything so dearly bought as the learningof the Greek and Latin tongues'

'I neuer yet the Living Soul could see | Butin thy Books'

On truth as the soul and elocution asthe body of history

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary sources in manuscript

Primary sources in print

Primary sources: modern editions

Secondary sources

INDEX.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-269070-1

9780192690708

OCLC:

1574925481