Translatio galliae: effects of early franco-italian literary exchange.

From: The Romanic Review | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Cornish, Alison | Copyright information

In the sixteenth century, French writers adopted Italian models, translated and plagiarized Italian works, and even wrote in the Italian language. Italy, it seemed, had introduced France to antiquity, but Italianism was seen as a disease that infected French culture, in particular with its taste for rhetoric, and its privileging of form over content. Jean Balsamo has characterized French translation of Italian works in this period as a kind of conquest, a literary will to power, wh...

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