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Index

Index

Abbot, George, Archbishop 138

Abdülaziz, Suphizâde, Effendi 209

Ablancourt, Nicolas Perrot d’ 29–31, 126

   Tacitus 25

Abu Bakr bin al-Badr bin al-Mundir Badr ad-Din al-Baitar 196

Abu’l-Fida 210

Acosta, José de, Natural and Moral History of the Indies 130, 140

Acta eruditorum 145

Addison, Joseph 23, 69, 142, 147–8, 151, 156, 157, 159

   Cato 148

Aegidius Albertinus 32, 69, 112

Aesop 39–40

Afentopoulo, Kaleb 183

Africa, accounts of 75

Agrafiotis, Nicolaos 190

Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi 194

Ahmed II, Sultan 208

al-Cagmînî 193

al-Idrisi 210

al-Samarkandî 193

al-Tûsî, Nasîr al-Dîn 181, 182, 193, 195

al-Zahravi, Abul Qasim 194–5

Alba, Duke of 14

Alberti, Alberto di Giovanni 36

Alemán, Mateo, Guzmán de Alfarache 76

Aleni, Giulio 40, 41, 42–3, 45

Alexander the Great 18

Alexander VI, Pope 134–5

Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar 190, 216

Alexis II Comnenus, (Byzantine) Emperor 181

Alfonso X ‘the Wise’ of Castile 15, 184–5

Ali Qushji 193, 195

Allestree, Richard 22

Almici, Giambattista 107

Almogáver, Gerónima Palova de 16

Alonso de Madrid 92

Alphonsine Tables 184–5

Amartol, Georgii 213

Ammirato, Scipione, Discorsi sopra Cornelio Tacito 76, 116

‘amplification,’ practice of 32, 134–5

Amyot, Jacques 2

Anchieta, José de 29

Andrewes, Lancelot 131–2

Andronicus II, (Byzantine) Emperor 181

Androvandi, Ulisse 217

Angela of Foligno 92

anthropology 8, 125

Antoine, Jean 173

aphorisms 134

Appian 30

Aquinas, Thomas, St 45, 95

   Summa theologica 39, 40–1, 47–9

Arabic, works in/translations from 193–6

Aretino, Pietro 23, 67

   Letters 67

Argyropulos, Johannes 29

Ariosto, Ludovico 2, 19, 23, 24, 65

   Negromante 75

   Orlando furioso 10, 75

   I suppositi 75

Aristotle 29, 36, 115, 217

   translations into Chinese 42–3, 45, 50

Arnauld, Antoine 77

Aron, Pietro, De institutione harmonica 67

art, works on 77

astrology 213–14

astronomy 181–5, 188–90, 195, 205–6

Athenian Mercury 145, 147

atlases see cartography

Augustine, St 89

Auvergne, Gaspard d’ 110, 113

Avicenna see Ibn Sina

Avila, Juan de 95

   Audi filia 92

Avila, Luis de 17

   Commentario 130, 140

Aylesbury, William 131


Bacon, Francis 23

   Advancement of Learning 168

   Considerations Touching a War with Spain 27

   Essays 27, 31, 77

   Henry VII 73, 129

Baker, Thomas 132

Bakhtin, Mikhail 36

Baldelli, Francesco 126, 132

Bandello, Matteo 30

Barbapiccola, Giuseppa-Eleonora 12

Barbeyrac, Jean 107, 121–4

   impact of works 123–4

   justification of translation method 122–3

Barclay, Alexander 131

Barezzi, Barezzo 16

Barksdale, Clement 107

Baron, Hans 110

Baronius, Cardinal 17

Barth, Caspar 69

Baxter, Richard 22

Bayle, Pierre 14, 145, 146

Bayly, Lewis, Praxis of Piety 27

Beaufort, Margaret 12

Bede, St, History of the English Church 127

Bedingfield, Thomas 131

Behn, Aphra 12

Bellarmino, Roberto, Cardinal 10, 17, 72, 104

Belleforest, François de 134

Belli, Costantino 129

Bellintani da Salò, Mattia 94, 95

Belon, Pierre 199

Belot, Octavie 12

Bembo, Pietro 79

Benavides, Florez de 135

Berman, Antoine 2

Bernegger, Matthias 74, 174

Bérulle, Pierre de, Cardinal 96

Bessarion, Basilius (Johannes), Cardinal 185

Béthune, Philippe de, Le conseiller d’estat 114

Beverland, Johannes 14

Beyazit II, Sultan 199

Bèze, Theodore 90

Bible translation(s) 2, 11, 17, 20, 24, 57–60, 66, 88, 89–90, 100

   accessibility, debates on 52

   Chinese, lack of 41, 51

   choice of wording 34, 36

   Czech/Slovak 56, 57, 61–2, 64

   literality vs freedom, debate on 28

Biblical Institute (Halle) 61–2

Bibliothèque universelle et historique 145

Bidpai, fables of 27

Biehl, Dorothea 12

biography 125

Biringuccio, Vannoccio, Pyrotechnica 74

Birk, Sixt, Susanna 75

Bitiskius, Fridericus 173

Blaeu, Jan 165–6

Blaeu, Willem 165–6, 167

   Atlas major 205, 216

Blois, Louis de (Blosius) 91, 95

Blosius see Blois

Blundeville, William 114

Boccaccio, Giovanni, Decameron 67, 75

Boccalini, Traiano 76, 116

Bodenstein, Adam von 166–7, 172

Bodin, Jean 69, 70

   The Republic 76, 108, 177

Bodmer, Johann Jakob 153, 154

Boeckler, Georg Andreas, Theatrum machinarum 74

Boerhaave, Hermann, Aphorismi 209

Bohannan, Laura 8

Boiastuau, Pierre 30

Boileau, Nicolas 18, 67, 69, 75

Boner, Hieronymus 132

Bonfils de Tarascon, Jacob 183–4

Bong’oron/Bonjorn see Yom-tob

The Book of Secrets of Enoch (anon.) 213

Borges, Jorge Luis 150, 159

Bornemisza, Péter 32–3

Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne 136

   Variations 67

Botero, Giovanni 24

   Ragione di stato 76, 116

   Relazioni 21

Bouhours, Dominique 77

Boulliau, Ismale 181

Bourchier, John 111–12

Bourdieu, Pierre 24–5

bowdlerization 31–2

Boyer, Abel 146

Boyle, Robert 69, 74, 166, 171, 173, 177–8

   Spring of the Air 178–9

Bracciolini, Poggio 126

Brant, Sebastian, Narrenschiff 75

Breitinger, Johann Jakob 154

Bremond, Henri 95

Brent, Sir Nathaniel 138

Brentjes, Sonja 210–11

Briani, Girolamo 116

Briencour, Seigneur de 113

Briganti, Annibale 12

Brignon, Jean 15

Browne, Thomas 22

Brucker, Johann, Historia critica philosophiae 67

Bruni, Leonardo 12, 25, 26, 29, 35, 110, 125–6

Bryskett, Lodowick (Lodovico Bruschetto) 14, 33

Bucer, Martin 17

Buchanan, George 119

   De iure regni apud Scotos 117

Budden, John 109

Buddhism 49

Budny, Szymon 28

Buglio, Ludovico, SJ 39, 40, 45, 47–8, 48–9

Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress 23

Burke, Peter 150

Burmann, Peter, the Elder 68, 77

Burnet, Gilbert 14, 22, 73, 129

Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de 199–200

Busch, Wilhelm, Max und Moritz 68

Buys, Jan 15

Byrd, William 132

Byzantine Empire

   influence on Western science 185

   political decline 180, 191, 212


Caesar, C. Julius 127

Caffa, Carlo 133

Calvin, Jean 2, 10, 23, 28, 37, 72

Calvinists 17

Calvo, Ignacio 67

Cambini, Andrea 37

   History of the Turks 21

Camden, William 131–2, 138

Camões, Luis Vaz de 65

   Os Lusíadas 75

Campanella, Tommaso, Città del sole 76

Campion, Edmund 66

Campomanes, Count of 128–9

Canfield, Benedictus de (William Fitch) 95

Cappel, Guillaume 113

Caramuel y Lobkowicz, Juan 76

Carcavy, Pierre de 166, 174

Cardano, Girolamo 36

Carion, Johann 128, 132

Carleton, Sir Dudley 138

Carmichael, Gershom 107

Caroline, Queen, of England 131

Cartagena, Alonso de 29

Carter, Elizabeth 12–13

Carthusians of Cologne 90–1, 95, 99

cartography 201–5, 210–11, 216–17

   marine 196–8

Cary, Elizabeth 12

Cary, Henry see Monmouth

Cassini, Jean Dominique 190, 206

Castellion, Sébastien 28, 66

Castiglione, Baldassare, Il cortegiano 16, 19, 23, 24, 32, 33, 67, 79, 113

Castiglione, Giuseppe 42

Castracani, Castruccio 73

Catherine II (the Great) of Russia 15–16, 18

Catherine of Genoa 95

Catherine of Siena 90, 92, 95

Catholicism

   Hungarian approach/traditions 63–4

   Latin translations of texts 72–3

   role of translation in development 83–5

   see also clergy

Caxton, William 16, 19, 29

Cecil, William 131

Celebi Mehmed, Sultan 194

Celestina (play) 23

censorship 124, 135–6

   see also bowdlerization; Index of Forbidden Books

Ceriol, Federico Furió 24, 76, 113–14

Cervantes, Miguel de 2, 65, 75

   Don Quixote 10, 21, 67

Cezmi Effendi 206

Chapelain, Jean 31

Chapman, George 36

Chappelain, Geneviève 12

Chappuys, Gabriel 13

Charles I of England 108, 110, 131

Charles IX of France 131

Charles V, (Holy Roman) Emperor 17

Charles V of France 15

Charrier, Jean 110

Châtelet, Emilie, Marquise du 12

China/Chinese language 39–51

   accounts of visits to 75

   cultural influence of translations 49–51

   decline of interest in European texts 51

   European interest in 21, 51

   methods of translation into 39–40, 46–7

   missions to 9–10

   translations from 46

   units of book production 47

Chionades, Gregory (George) 181–2

Chomedey, Jérôme de 135

Choumnos (Byzantine official) 180

Christian Fathers, translations of 88–9, 95

Chrysokokkes, George 181, 182

Chrysokokkes, Michael/Manuel 183–4

Chrysoloras, Demetrius 185

Chrysoloras, Emanuel, Erotemata 92

Churchill, Winston 137

Cicero, M. Tullius 26, 28, 42, 115

Cieklinski, Piotr, Protrójny 33

Cisneros, García de 92, 94

Clairaut, Alexis 206

Clarendon, Lord 129

Clarke, Samuel 74, 176

classical literature/era

   cultural traditions 104–5, 115

   translations 19, 29–30, 40, 42–4, 65, 126, 163

‘classicizing’ 80

Clavius, Christophorus 41–2, 50

Clement VIII, Pope 119–20

clergy

   central role in text production/translation 69, 84–5

   as focus of scholarship 85

Clerke, Bartholomew 79

Clifford, Lady Anne 132

Climacus, John 92

Cognet, Louis 95

Cohen, Tobia 208

coinages see neologisms

Coke, Sir Edward 132

Collodi, Carlo, Pinocchio 68

Cologne see Carthusians of Cologne

colonial rule, translation under 29

Columbus, Christopher 197–8

Colyer, Justinus 205

comedy, problems of translating 7

commercialism, as motive for translation/publication 173, 176, 177–8

Commynes, Philippe de 12, 73, 129, 140

Concini, Bartolomeo 135

conduct books 76–7

Conegliano, Israel 208

confessional identity, importance of 53–4

Confucius 46, 77

constitution, theoretical studies 108–9

Contarini, Gasparo, De magistratibus et republica Venetorum 110–11

contraction (of translated texts) 31–2

Cook, Ann 12

Copernicus, Nicolaus 182

   influence of Eastern scientists 181, 182

   later writers’ developments of theory 179, 188–9

Corneille, Pierre 75

Corydaleus, Theophylos 187

Coste, Pierre 14, 121, 146

Cotterell, Charles 131

Counter-Reformation 16–17

Couplet, Philippe 46

Courtin, Antoine de 107

Cowley, Abraham 31

‘creative infidelity’ 150, 159

Cremonini, Cesare 187

Croce, Benedetto 25

Croll, Oswald 207

Cromwell, Oliver 117

Cromwell, Thomas 18

Crusades

   literature from conquereed lands 184–5

   works on/interest in 127, 130

Cudworth, Ralph, True Intellectual System of the Universe 77

‘cultural translation’ 8–10, 133

   availability 103

   relationship with linguistic 10

   scientific 163

Cumberland, Richard 107, 122, 123

Curione, Celio Secundo 70, 78, 135

Curtius, Qunitus 18

Curtius Rufus, Q. 127

Cyril, St, Archbishop of Great Moravia 61

Czech Brethren 56–7, 61

Czech (language)

   (religious) use in Slovakia 54–5, 56–7, 58–60, 61–2, 64

   translations into 23–4, 56–7


Dacier, Anne 12

Dacres, Edward 110, 113

Dale, Thomas 33

Dalhem, Josquin 167, 175

Damaskin, I. 213

Daniel, Fr, Cleandre et Eudoxus 72

Dante Alighieri 65, 169

   The Divine Comedy 75

Dariot, Claude 167

Darnton, Robert 102

Davila, Enrico Caterina, Civil Wars of France 130, 140

de Bry, Theodor/Johann Theodor 16, 19, 75, 77

De Dominis, Marco Antonio, dedication to History of the Council of Trent 137–8

de Rogeau, Marcus 138–9

de Tournes, Samuel 77, 171, 173, 178

de Veer, Effert 117

de Witt, Johann 171

decontextualization see recontextualization

Dee, John 172

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe 68

Dehergne, Joseph, SJ 44

Delacroix, Jacques-Vincent 142, 150–1, 155–9

   authorial/editorial persona 158–9

   comments on own work 152, 153, 157, 158–9

   governmental hostility to 158

Delind, Zuca 217

Della Casa, Giovanni, Il galateo 27

Della Porta, Giambattista 67

   Il astrologo 75

Denis the Carthusian (Denis Rijckel) 87

Dentrecolles, François-Xavier 41

Dering, Sir Edward 132

Dernschwam, Hans 200

des Essars, Herberay 111

Desaguliers, John 14

Descartes, René 77

   Géométrie 170–1, 178

Desmaizeaux, Pierre 14, 146

devotional texts

   centres of origin 86

   cultural context 99

   definition/range 85–6, 97–9

   means of transmission 97

   modern studies 97–100

   role in religious history 84

Diaz, Emmanuel 41, 45

dictionaries, bilingual 13–14

Dieu, Louis de 72

Diodati, Elio 70, 74, 174

Diodati, Jean 137–8, 139

Diodorus Siculus 127

Dionysius the Areopagite 89, 95

The Discussion of Panaghiostos with Azimyth 213

Dolce, Ludovico 113–14

Dolet, Etienne 16, 25

   La manière de bien traduire 25

Dolmatskii, Albert, Prince 215–16

Domenichi, Ludovico 110, 132

‘domestication’ 26–7, 29

   see also ‘foreignization’

Domestikos, Meletios 190

Doncker, Hendrick 216–17

Donne, John 34

Dorn, Gerard 172, 175

Douglas, Gavin 19, 29

Drake, Francis 23

Draskovich, János 112

Dryden, John 30–1, 34, 35, 67

   Absalom and Achitophel 75

   Ovid 25

Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, La semaine 67, 75, 76

Du Bellay, Joachim 25, 30–1, 169

Du Vergerre, Susanne 12

Duan Gun 43

Dulcken, Anton 69

Dunton, John 145

Dupuy, Pierre 138

D’Urfé, Honoré, L’Astrée 67

Durret, Nathalis 205–6

Dutch, translations from/into 23

Duvergier de Hauranne, Jean 96


Eastern European languages, translations from/into 23–4

Eborensis, Andreas 42

Ebreo, Leone 77

Ebubekir b. Behram üd-Dimashqi 205

Eckhart, Johannes, Meister 86, 87

Eco, Umberto 7

Eden, Richard 19

Edward IV of England 108–9

Effen, Justus van 149, 151, 152

elites, religious see clergy

Elizabeth I of England 12, 16, 18, 104, 116

Elsevier (publisher) 164, 174–5, 177

émigrés, role in translation 14–15

Emir Celebi (Seyyid Muhammed et-Tabib) 206–7

England, cultural/scientific importance 165

English, translations from/into 22–3

Enlightenment 37–8

Ens, Caspar 69

Epictetus 39–40, 42

Epiphany of Cyprus 213

Erasmus, Desiderius 10, 12, 20, 23, 87–9, 93

   impact on development of Protestantism 88

   Enchiridion militis christiani 32, 37, 93

   Institutio principis christiani 112

Euclid, Elementa 39, 47

Eugenikos, Marcos 184

Europe

   cultural transfers within 1, 10–11, 124

   political situation 103

European Community 1

European Science Foundation 1

Eusebius of Caesarea 127

Evans-Pritchard, Edward 8

Evats, W. 107

Even-Zohar, Itamar 2

Everart, Martin 115, 166

Exarch, Ioan, The Six Days 213


fashion, magazine coverage of 145

Fausto da Longiano, Sebastiano 112

Fazio, Bartolomeo 33

Fénelon, François 14, 18

   Télémaque 76

Fenton, Sir Geoffrey 26, 135–6

Feofan Prokopovich 72

Ferdinand I, (Holy Roman) Emperor 199

Ferguson, Adam, Essay on the History of Civil Society 38

Fernández, Alonso 32

Fernel, Jean 207

Ferus, Jiři 15

Ficino, Marsilio 89

fiction, translations of 75–6

Fielding, Henry 23

Fieschi, Count 33

Filmer, Sir Robert, Patriarcha 117–18

Filotei (monk) 212

Finé, Oronce 169

Fioravanti, Leonardo 165

Fischart, Johann 31, 32, 33, 36

FIT (Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs) 2–3

Fitch, William see Canfield, Benedictus de

Flacius, Matthias 28, 30

Florence (city-state) 110

Florio, John 2, 14, 116, 120

   translations of Montaigne 16, 25, 32, 33–4, 36–7

Fonkich, Boris L. 215

Fonseca, Daniel 208

Fonseca, Rodrigo 208

Forberger, Georg 131, 134–5, 172, 173

foreign language(s), adoption of 54

   see also Czech

‘foreignization’ 26, 34

   vs ‘domestication’ 80

Fortescue, John, De laudibus legum Angliae 108–9

Foucault, Michel 35

Fracastoro, Girolamo 207

Frachetta, Girolamo 116

France

   as devotional centre 95–7, 98

   periodicals 144–5, 155

Francis I of France 90, 131

Francis Xavier, St 72

Francke, August Hermann 73

François de Sales, St 72, 95–6

Fraunce, Abraham 33

Frederick II of Prussia 113

French, translations from/into 22

Fréron, Élie-Catherine 155–6

Frobisher, Martin 23

Froidmont, Libert 174

Froissart, Jean, Chroniques 67, 73, 127

Fronsperger, Leonard 216

Fuchs, Leonard 168

Furtado, Francisco 42–3


Gage, Thomas 22

Gagliardi, Achille, Brief Summary of Christian Perfection 86, 94, 96

Galilieo Galilei 10, 42, 74, 166, 170, 174–5, 176–7, 179

Galitzin, Prince 190

Garneau, Michel 33

Garzoni, Tomaso, La piazza universale 31

Gassendi, Pierre 211

Gazette 144

   foreign imitations 144–5

Gazette de Leyde 143

Gentile, Scipio 70

Gentili, Alberico 106

Gentillet, Innocent 76

George I of England 108–9

German(y)

   civic/religious uses 55, 56

   theoretical movements 35

   translations from/into 23, 56

Gerson, Jean 85, 86

Gesenius, Justus 134

Geuder, Jacob 80

Geuffroy, Antoine 80

Giannotti, Donato 76

Gibbon, Edward 130

Giolito, Gabriel 16, 132

Giovio, Paolo 79–80

   History of His Own Time 130, 132, 140

Giraldi, Giambattista Cinthio 33

Girard, Albert 171

Girard, Pascale 44

Glazemaker, Jan Hendriksz 13

Glyzounis, Emanuel 186–7

God, renderings of name 9–10, 29, 48

Goethe, Cornelia 149

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 68, 149

Gohorry, Jacques 32, 110

Golding, Arthur 131

Goldoni, Carlo, Pamela 154

Gordon, Thomas 123

Górnicki, Łukasz 33

Góslicki, Wawrzyniec Grzymała, De optimo senatore 114

Gottsched, Louise 12, 149, 154

Goulart, Simon 115

Goupyl, Jacques 166

Gracián, Jeronomo, Summary of the Virtues of St Joseph 86

Graeber, Wilhelm 2

Graevius, Johann Georg 19, 68, 71, 73, 77

Grafton, Anthony 102

Granada, Luís de 10, 12, 40, 85, 92, 95

Grantrye, Pierre de 167

Gray, Thomas, Elegy in a Country Churchyard 21, 67, 75

Greece

   political/social conditions under Ottomans 189

   scientific aspirations 191

Greek

   translations from see classical literature

   translations into 181–91

Greflingen, Georg 143

Gregory Nazianzus 88

Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron 155

Grotius (de Groot), Hugo 104, 106, 122, 169

   De jure belli et pacis 107, 123

Guarini, Giovanni Battista, Il pastor fido 21, 67

Guerre, Martin 66

Guevara, Antonio de, Reloj de príncipes 76, 111–12, 124

Guevara y Vasconcelos, Manuel de 128–9

Guiccardini, Francesco 20, 21, 23, 26, 38, 70, 76, 78, 113, 131, 133, 134

   Dialogo del reggimento del Firenze 110

   Storia d’Italia 125, 129, 131–2, 134–6, 137, 139, 140, 141

Guiccardini, Ludovico 21

Guillemeau, Jacques 167–8, 178

Gustav Adolf of Sweden 15–16, 18

Gyllengrip, Catharina 12

Gyllenstierna, Catharina/Maria 12


Haci Pasha (Celalüddin Hizir) 194, 206

Hagenaeus, Melchior 115

hagiographies see saints, lives of

Hakluyt, Richard 18, 19

Hall, Joseph 23

   Characters 27

Hamazaspean, Gabriel 112

Hamon, Joseph 199

Hamon, Moses 199

Han Lin 43

Hankins, James 110

Harphius (Hendrik Herp) 87, 90, 95

   The Mirror of Perfection 90

Harvey, Gabriel 102

Harvey, William 209

Hassard, Pierre 167

Hatton, Christopher 131, 132

Havercamp, Sigebert 69

Hayâtizâde Mustafa Feyzi 207–8

Haydocke, Richard 12

Hebrew, translations from 183–4

Helmont, Jan van 173

Henri III of France 177

Henry, Prince of Wales (son of James I) 118

Henry VIII of England 17–18

Herder, Johann Gottfried 35

Hermann, Philip 166

Hermans, Theo 2, 26, 28

Herp, Hendrik see Harphius

historical works (in translation) 73, 125–9

   areas of interest 128–9

   defined 125

   ‘export’/‘import’ languages 128, 130

   translators 132–3

history, ‘translation’ across 7–9

Hobbes, Thomas 22, 104, 106, 107–8, 122

   Leviathan 76

Hoby, Sir Thomas 19

Holberg, Ludvig 154–5

Holland, Philemon 132

Holmes, James 2

Holst, Pieter Volck 166

Homer, translations of 11, 35, 36

Hondius, Josse 202

Hooft, Pieter 126

Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus) 18, 25

horses, care of see veterinary science

Horta, García de 12

Hortensius, Martinus 167, 174

Hostovinus, Balthasar 15

Hotman, François, Francogallia 109

Hotman, Jean 120

Huarte de San Juan, Juan 69

Huguenots 14, 121, 146

Humboldt, Wilhelm 34–5

Hume, David 77

Hungary

   civic/social elite (Magyars) 58, 63

   ethnic/linguistic divisions 55, 57–8, 60

   legislation 55–6, 62

   literary imports 56

   political conditions 59

   religious divisions 52

   see also Slovakia

Hus, Jan/Hussites 52, 54, 60

Huser, Johannes 172, 173

Hüseyin bin Abdullah 196

Huyghens, Christiaan 18

hymns 59–60


iatrochemistry 207

Ibn Beithar 194

Ibn Khaldun 127

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 209–10

Ibn Yunus 206

Illuminism 92–4

‘imitation,’ theory/practice of 30–1

   debates on 153–9

Imperial Encyclopedia (Siku quanshu) 49–50

index entries 137, 139

Index of Forbidden Books 93, 113, 120, 128

   impact on translation/publication projects 177

   Russian Orthodox version 214

India, accounts of 75

Indikoplov, Kosmas 213

Innys, William/John 176

integrity, textual, religious importance 55–6, 57

intellectual property 33, 173

intention, importance of 16

interpreters 13, 14

   hereditary 13

inwerken, translation of term 93, 99–100

Isabella, Queen of Spain 91

Isengrin (publisher) 168

Islam see Muslim texts

Ismail, Halifezâde Cinarî, Effendi 206

Isselt, Michael 69

Italian, translations from/into 22–3, 73

Italy, visits to 104

Ivan III, Tsar 212


James I of England/VI of Scotland 12, 23, 104, 131

   Basilikon doron 118–21, 124

Japan, accounts of 75

Jardine, Lisa 102

Jerome, St 25, 28, 89

Jesuits 15, 17, 29, 39–51, 83–4, 99

   numbers/nationalities 44–5, 46

   role in Chinese missions/translations 44

   selection of texts 50

   timescale of translation production 45–6

Jews

   medical knowledge/texts 198–9

Jiménez (Ximenes) de Cisneros, Francisco, Cardinal 15, 91–2, 94

João IV of Portugal 76

John Chrysostom, St 213

John of the Cross, St 92, 94, 95

Johnson, Samuel, Dr 12, 154

Jones, William 115

Josephus, Flavius 126–7

Joubert, Laurent 168

Le journal encyclopédique 156

Le journal étranger 153–4

Journal des savants 144

   imitations 145

Jouvancy, Joseph de 72

Juan, Prince, of Spain 111

Justinus 127


Kadizâde-i Rumî (Sheikh Mehmed bin Mustafa) 193, 196

Kangxi, (Chinese) Emperor 42, 43

Kant, Immanuel 77

Karaites (Jewish sect) 183

Karl IX of Sweden 18

Kâtib Çelebi 201–4, 205, 210

Kavoutzes, Ioannes 183

Keller, Christoph 134

Kempis, Thomas 12

   Imitatio Christi (attrib.) 20, 85, 86–7

Kennet, Basil 107, 122, 123

Kerbekius, Antonius 69

Kirik of Novgorod 213

Klesch, Daniel 56

Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, Messiah 75

Koerbagh, Adriaan 9, 36

Kopievich, Ilya 18

Koran, translations of 27

Kralice Bible 58–9


La Beaumelle, Laurent de 150

La Chapelle, Seigneur de 76

La Fontaine, Jean de, Fables 75

La Grise, Berthault de 111

La Houssaye, Amelot de 113, 139

La Noue, François de 76

la Rivière, Étienne de 207

Lamoot, Jan 14

Languet, Hubert 117

Lansbergen, Jacob 174

Lansbergen, Philip 173–4, 179

Lansperger, Johannes Justus 91

Lapithe, George 185

Laredo, Bernardino de 92

Latin

   ‘competition’ with vernacular 167–73, 175–6

   as cultural lingua franca 54–5, 104–5, 168, 169–70

   as language of law 106

   as language of religion 55, 56, 84

Latin, translations from see classical literature

Latin, translations into 4, 19, 21, 65–80, 84, 174–5, 179

   choice of material 66–7

   chronology 68

   quantity 65–6

   selection of material 71–7

   source languages 69

   translation methods 78–80

   translators 69–70

   see also ‘classicizing’

Lauro, Pietro 132

Lauterbach, Conrad 126

Lauterbeke, George 109

law, works on 77, 106–9

Lazarillo de Tormes (anon.) 31

Le Ber, Charles 115

Le Courayer, Pierre-François 131, 139

Le Noble, Eustache 125

Leclerc, Jean 145

Lefèvre d’Étaples, Jacques 89–90

Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm 51, 77

Leichoudis, Ioannikos/Sofronios 190, 215

Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicolas 34

Leo Africanus 18

León, Luis de, La perfecta casada (The Perfect Wife) 98

Leunclavius, Johannes 80

Lewkenor, Lewes 111

Li Cibin 43

Li Zhizao 42, 43

libraries, contents of 131–2, 149

linguistic ability, role in European education 104

Lipsius, Justus 23

   Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae 115–16

literality, vs freedom 25, 26–30, 133

literary criticism 77

liturgy see prayers

Livy (T. Livius) 102

localization see transposition

Locke, John 10, 14, 18, 22, 23, 37–8, 145

   Concerning Human Understanding 27, 77, 121–2

   Two Treatises on Government 27, 76, 118

Lok, Ann 12

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo 12

Lomonosov, Mikhail 215

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Hiawatha 68

Longobardo, Niccolò 48

Lopes de Castanheda, Fernão, History of the Discovery of the New World 130, 140

Lorraine, Cardinal of 15

Louis XIII of France 114

Louis XIV of France 8, 76, 108, 144

Loyola, Ignatius, St 15, 83–4, 87, 94

Lubomirski, Stanislas 72

Lucae e Camerino, Johannes 183

Lucena, Juan de 33

Ludolph of Saxony, Life of Christ 83, 87, 92, 94

Ludwig, Prince of Anhalt 12

Luillier, François 211

Lukaris, Cyril, Patriarch 187

Lull, Raymond 92

Lumley, Jane 12

Luther, Martin 2, 23, 60, 88, 172

   as Bible translator 17, 28

   translations from 10, 17, 20, 23, 37, 72

   Little Catechism 53, 57

   Sendbrief von Dolmetschen (Epistle on Translation) 25

Lutheran Church 53–4, 56

   conflicts with Calvinism 57

   presence in Hungary/Slovakia 59–62, 63–4

   (supposed) links with Hussism 54, 60


Macault, Antoine 131

Machiavelli, Niccolò 21, 23, 70, 76, 134

   Arte della guerra 33

   Discorsi 32, 110

   Istorie Fiorentine 67, 128, 130, 131, 140

   Il principe 31, 76, 78, 104, 105–6, 110, 113

Maffei, Giovanni Pietro 22

Magalhães, Gabriel de 47–8

magazines see periodicals

Magnus, Olaus 132

Maignan, Eloi 168

Maimbourg, Louis 67, 128

   History of the Crusades 130, 140

Maire, Jean 178

Malebranche, Nicolas 77

Malvezzi, Virgilio 76

Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad 210

manuscripts 4, 15, 21–2, 34, 67, 126, 164

March, Ausias 75

Marcus Aurelius, (Roman) Emperor 111

Mardrus, Joseph Charles, Arabian Nights 150

Marguerite of Navarre 90

Mariana, Juan de 106

Marivaux, Pierre de 152

Marnix, Philip 131

Marshall, William 17–18

Marsilio of Padua 17

Martin, Henri-Jean 164

Martin, Jean 30

Martini, Martino 21

   De bello tartarico 129, 140

Mascardi, Agostino 33

Masník (Masnicius), Tobias 61

mathematics 186–7

Mavrocordato, Alexandre 209

Maximilian II, (Holy Roman) Emperor 177

Mazel, David 146

Medici, Lorenzo de' 116

medicine, works on 190, 194–5, 198–200, 206–10

   analogy with political theory 203–4

   see also veterinary science

medreses (Ottoman schools) 192, 193, 196, 200–1

Mehmed Ataullah, Tayyarzade 196

Mehmed Ihlasî, Sheikh 203

Mehmed II, Sultan 193, 195

Mehmed IV, Sultan 205, 207

Mehmed Rami Pasha 208

Mehmed Reis ibn Menemenli 198

Melanchthon, Philip 128

Ménage, Gilles 30

Mendoza, Juan González de 21

Mercado, Luis 208

Mercator, Gerhard 201, 202, 216

Le mercure galant 144, 145, 147

Mersenne, Marin 166

Merzifonlu Karamustafa Pasha 208

Methodius, St 61

Metochites (Byzantine official) 180

Meusevoet, Vincentius 13, 14

Mexia, Pedro, Historia Caesarea 67, 133

Micanzio, Fulgencio 137

Middle Ages 52, 86–7

   translation methods 26–7

   translation of texts from 127

Mikhail Feodorovich, Tsar 216

Milne, A. A., Winnie the Pooh, Latin version 19, 68

Milton, John 65, 67, 104

   Paradise Lost 21, 23, 75

Minadoi, Giovanni 80

Mirandola, Pico della 183

missionaries 9–10, 16–17, 29, 39–51, 99

misunderstanding, role of (mis)translation in 35–6

Mitros, Meletios, Bishop, ‘Epitome of Astronomy’ 188, 188–9

Molina, Luis de 106

Molinos, Miguel de 73

monarchy, theories of 109, 111–15, 124

Monardes, Nicolas 12, 207–8

Monmouth, Henry Cary, Earl of 111, 116, 133

Montaigne, Michel de 2, 121

   Essais 16, 21, 24, 25, 32, 33–4, 36–7

Montano, Benito Arias 66, 70

Montecuccoli, Raimondo de 76

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de 10

   L’esprit des lois 37

Montgomerie, The Cherry and the Plum 75

Moravia, Great 60–1, 63–4

More, Thomas

   Utopia 21, 37

Morin, Jean-Baptiste 174

Mornay, Philippe du Plessis 117

Mornet, Daniel 149

Moulin, Louis de 74

Moyriac de Mailla, J. A. M. de 127

Muhammad, the Prophet 193

Muhammed b. Mahmûd-i Sirvânî 194

Muhammed bin Cerkes 196

Muhammed bin Ya’kûb b. Ahi Huzzâm al-Huttalî 196

Mulcaster, Robert 108

Murad IV, Sultan 209

Murner, Thomas 22

Murphy, Arthur, The Orphan of China 154

Muslim texts/science

   role in Ottoman thought/education 192–3, 196, 200–1, 210

   Western translations 127

   see also Ottoman Empire

Mustafa III, Sultan 209

Müteferrika, Ibrahim 203

Mutius, Huldreich, De Germanorum origine 67

Myrepsos, Nicolas 207

The Mystery of Mysteries (anon.) 214


Nadal, Jerónimo 41

Nannini, Remigio 134

Napier, John 42

nationalism

   cultural 19, 169

   growth of 103

natural philosophy see science

Naudé, Gabriel 69, 77

   Considérations politiques sur les coups d’état 116

Nebrija, Antonio 70

Needham, Peter 68

negotiation, role in translation 9–10

Negri, Francesco 70

Nemchin, Nikolai 214

neologisms 36–7, 48–9, 78–80

Neri, Antonio, De arte vitraria 74

Netherlands

   cultural/scientific importance 164–6

   return of exiles 14–15

Newcastle, Duke of 73

newspapers see periodicals

Newton, Adam 78–9, 138

Newton, Isaac 10, 14, 33, 74

   Opticks 176

Nian Xiyao 42

Nicholas V, Pope 15

Nieremberg, Emmanuel 12

Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio 85, 99

Nieuhof, Jan 75

Nikon, Patriarch 216

nineteenth century, translation movements/theories 34–5

Nizamulmulk, Vizier 192

non-fiction, translation of 3, 11, 66–7

Norfolk, Duke of 131

North, Sir Thomas 2, 27, 112

Northampton, Elizabeth, Marchioness of 16

Norton, Thomas 28

Notaras, Chrysanthos 189–90

Notaras, Dositheos, Patriarch 190

Nouvelles de la république des lettres 145


Oldenburg, Henry 74

Origen, St 89

Ortega y Gasset, José 25

Ortelius, Abraham 201, 203, 216

Osman II, Sultan 196

Osuna, Francisco de 92

Ottoman Empire

   education system 185, 187, 189, 192–3 (see also medreses)

   rise in power 180

   scientific attainments 189

   Western accounts of 75, 76, 79–80

   Western influence on science/culture 192, 196–211

   Western physicians in 208


Padua (University) 199

   ‘school of’ 187–8, 191

Palissy, Bernard 36

Pallavicino, Sforza, Cardinal 137

Palthen, Zacharias 11, 173

Panneel, Michael 14

Papánek, Juraj 63

Papavasilopoulos, Anastasios 186, 187

   manuscripts of texts 186

Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim) 11, 73–4

   influence in East 207

   Latin translations 164, 166–7, 172–3, 175, 178

Paré, Ambroise 167–8, 170, 177, 178

Parry, Thomas 120

Parsons, Robert 119, 120

Paruta, Paolo, Della perfettione della vita politica 111

Pascal, Blaise 69

   Pensées 77

Patriotiske Tilskuer 153

Patrizzi, Francesco 77

patronage 15–16, 131

Paul, St, Letter to the Romans 89

Paul III, Pope 137

Paulos Aeginata 195

Paz, Octavio 8–9

The Pearl of the Gospel (anon.) 90, 95

Pedro IV of Aragon 184

Peiresc, Nicolas Claude 138, 211

Peletier du Mans, Jacques 25, 169

   Algèbre/De occulta parte numerorum 170

Pemberton, John 120

Pepys, Samuel 132

Perez, Miguel 85

periodicals

   book reviews 145–6

   borrowings from others 143–4

   criticisms of others 152

   development 143–6

   government sponsorship 144

   role in cultural exchange 144–6

   specialization 144–5

   women’s 145, 150, 153

   see also The Spectator

Perkins, William 17, 23, 27, 72

Perna, Pietro 136, 167, 172–3, 175, 177

Perne, Andrew 131–2

Persian, translations from 181–2

Peter I (the Great), Tsar 15–16, 18, 20, 215, 217

Petereius, Theodore 69

Petrarch 23

Philip II of Spain 73, 91

Philip IV of Spain 12, 21

Philip V of Spain 12

Phillip, William 18

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 145, 146, 171

philosophy, works on 77

Pibrac, Guy du Four, Seigneur de 67, 75

Piccolomini, Alessandro 166

Pieroni, Giovanni 174, 176, 177

Pindar 31

Pipino, Francesco 31, 32

Pirckheimer, Wilibald 88

Pîrî Reis 197–8

Pitiscus, Bartholomaeus 42

Plato 43–4

   Laws 109

   Republic 31

Plautus, T. Maccius, Trinummus 33

plays, translations of 32–3, 75

Plutarch 2, 115

Pocock, John 110, 133

poetry, translations of 75

Poirot, Louis de 41

Poland, political system 114

polemic 103

Poleni, Giovanni 191

‘policy,’ translatability of term 7–8

Polish, translations into 24

‘political economy of translation’ 22

political theory, works of

   context of creation 101–2

   distribution 102

   Eastern 203–4

   range of ideas 101

   translations into Latin 76

   transmission of ideas 102–3

   see also law; monarchy; ‘reason of state’; republicanism; resistance

Poliziano, Angelo 126

Polo, Gil, Diana 75–6

Polo, Marco 21, 31, 32

Polybius 12, 126, 127

Pope, Alexander 11, 12–13, 154

   Essay on Man 21, 75

Porcacchi, Tommaso 132

Pory, John 18

Postel, Guillaume 210

Pozzo, Andrea 42, 50

prayers, translations of 40–1

printers 16

   absence (from certain areas) 56

Proclus 182

Procopius 12, 125–6

propaganda

   translatability of term 8

   works of 76

Protestants/Protestantism

   appropriation of Catholic texts 136, 138–9

   texts translated into Latin 72

   translations of Catholic texts by 72–3, 77

   see also Calvinists; Lutheran Church; Reformation

Pseudo-Kallisphenos, Alexandria 213–14

publication, centres of 70–1, 72, 164

Pufendorf, Samuel 18

   De jure naturae et gentium 107, 121–3

   De officio hominis et civis 107

   Introduction (Einleitung) 129, 140

Pym, Anthony 2


Quevedo, Francisco de 76


Rabelais, François 23, 31, 32, 33, 36

Raleigh, Walter 23

Ramus, Peter, Geometriae libri XXVII 216

Ramusio, Giovanni Battista 19

Rawlinson, Richard 34

‘reason of state’, theoretical works on 115–17

re-Catholicization, Hungarian programme of 53–4, 55–6, 59, 62–3

recontextualization, processes of 10

Reformation 10, 37

   attitudes to Scriptures 52–3

   liturgical languages 55–6

refugees see émigrés

Regnault, Noël 33

religion

   controversies 96–7, 99, 124

   histories 130

   texts (and translations) 3, 16–17, 40–1, 61, 62–3, 71–3

   Wars of 95, 109

   see also Bible; Catholicism; devotional texts; God; missionaries; prayers; Protestants; saints, lives of

Renaissance 10, 37, 163

Renaudot, Théophraste 144

republicanism, theories of 110–11, 115

resistance, political theory of 117–18

Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi de, Cardinal 33

reviews see periodicals

Rhineland, religious traditions 86–91, 92–4

   links/clashes with Catholicism 90–1

Rho, Giacomo 42, 45

Ricci, Matteo 9, 15, 16, 39, 41–2, 45, 47, 48, 50

   Jiaoyou lun (De amicitia) 42

   Jiren shipian (Ten Essays from a Remarkable Man) 39–40

Richardson, Samuel 2, 23

   Pamela 34, 154

Richelieu, Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal 114, 205

Ricius, Johannes 79

Rijckel, Denis see Denis the Carthusian

Rivadeneira, Pedro de 15

   The Christian Prince (Tratado de la religíon y virtudes que debe tener el príncipe cristiano) 76, 112–13

Robertson, William 130

   History of America 128–9

Roche, Geneviève 2

Rohan, Henri de 76

Rojas, Fernando de, Celestina 75

Ronsard, Pierre 75

   Franciade 67

Roper, Margaret 12

Rosemond, Jean-Baptiste de 14

Rosenzweig, Franz 8

Roseo da Fabriano, Mambrino 112

Ross, Alexander 174

Rowling, J. K., Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Latin version 68

Royal Society 74, 166, 169, 170, 175–6

   see also Philosophical Transactions

royalty

   as patrons of translation 15–16

   as translators 12

Rudolph II, (Holy Roman) Emperor 177

Ruggieri, Michele 39

‘Rules of the Military, Artillery and Other Affairs’ 216

Russia

   educational projects 215

   literature 213–15

   political history 212, 215

   social/cultural development 214–17

   translation programmes 18–19, 190, 214–17

Ruysbroeck, Jan van 87, 90

   Spiritual Espousals 90, 95


Saadi 75

Saavedra, Diego de 76

Sabellico, Marco Antonio 22

Sabuncuoglu Sherefeddin 194–5

Sa’duddin bin Hasan Can 127

Saint-Evremond, Charles de Marquetel de 14

Sainte-Marthe, Scévole de 67

St Petersburg

   Academy 13, 18–19, 217

   Gazette 145

saints, lives of 41, 71, 86, 98

Sales, François de, St see François de Sales

Salih b. Nasrullah b. Sallum 206, 207, 208

Sallust (C. Sallustius Crispus) 115, 127

Sambiasi, Francesco 42–3

Sandé, Don Alvaro de 200

Sarpi, Paolo 20, 38, 128

   History of Benefices 130, 133, 140

   History of the Council of Trent 16, 17, 78–9, 125, 129, 131–2, 133, 136–9, 140

Savonarola, Girolamo 92

Saxo Grammaticus 127

Saxony, Elector of 131

   see also George I of England

Scalvo, Marco de 67

Scandinavia 24

   see also Sweden

Schall von Bell, Adam 42, 45

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von 68

Schirmbeck, Adam 69

Schlegel, August Wilhelm 8, 154–5

Schleiermacher, Friedrich 34–5

school textbooks 62–3, 186–7

Schooten, Franz van 170, 178

Schottius, Andreas 69

Schreck, Johann Terenz 42

Schroder, Eric 13, 18, 112, 120

Schwartz, Johann Ludwig 63

science

   transmission of information 163–4

scientific works 3, 163, 180–211

   most translated 165

   translation into Chinese 40, 41–2, 50

   translation into Latin 73–4

Scot, Reginald 36

Scott, Thomas 116

Scribanius, Carolus 67

scribes, responsibilities/freedoms of 34

Scupoli, Lorenzo, Il combattimento spirituale 72, 94, 95

Second Scholastic 106

Seklucjan, Jan 25

Selden, John 108

Seljukid beg Ilyas 194

Seneca, L. Annaeus 42

Sennert, Daniel 207

Serlio, Sebastiano 37

Settle, Elkanah, The Conquest of China 129

Severian of Gavala, Bishop 213

Severinus, Petrus 173

Seydî Ali Reis 195

Seyssel, Claude de 132

   The French Commonwealth 76

   La grande monarchie de France 109

Shakespeare, William 7, 24

   Hamlet 8

   Macbeth 104

   The Taming of the Shrew 24

Shams al-Din al-Bukhari 181–2

Shemseddin Itaqi 199, 209–10

Sherlock, William 122

Shute, John 37

Sidney, Algernon, Discourses Concerning Government 118

Sidney, Mary 12, 33

Sidney, Philip 23, 104

   A Defence of Poetry 21

Sigismund III of Sweden/Poland 120

Siku quanshu see Imperial Encyclopedia

Silhon, Jean de, Ministre d’état 114

Silvanus, Johannes 53

Sipayllówna, Maria 12

Skinner, Quentin 110

Skylitzes, Ioannis, ‘Introduction to the Cosmographical Sciences’ 188

Sleidan, Johann 12, 73, 128

   Commentaries 129, 140

   Four World Empires 130, 140

Slovakia/Slovak people

   ethnic identity 53, 59–60, 62

   exiles from 61

   ‘first state of’ 63

   language(s) 53, 54–6, 58, 59, 61–4 (see also Czech)

   religious identity/divisions 53–4, 59–60, 64

Smidt, Frans de 15

Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations 31–2, 38

Smith, Samuel 176

Smith, Sir Thomas, De republica Anglorum 109

Snellius, Willebrord 167

Solis, Antonio de, History of the Conquest of Mexico 130, 141

Sophocles, Electra 32–3

Sorbière, Samuel de 107

Soto, Domingo de 106

sound-approximation, as translation technique 48–9

Sousa, Perez de 116

Spain

   cultural hegemony within Europe 72, 106

   as devotional centre 91–4, 98

Spandugino, Theodoro 21

Spanish, translations from/into 23, 24

The Spectator 142

   appeal to readership 147–50

   authorial/editorial persona 152

   correspondence 153

   imitations 142, 148–53, 154–9

   influence of earlier trends 142, 146–7

   reliance on collaborators 152–3

   translations 148

speeches, collections of 133–4

Speidell, John, Geometrical Extraction 215–16

Spenser, Edmund 33

   The Shepherd’s Calendar 21, 75

Speroni, Sperone 169

Sporck, Eleonora von 12

Sprat, Thomas 74

Staden, Heinrich von 75

Standaert, Nicolas 39, 49–50

Stapleton, Sir Robert 131

Steele, Richard 142, 147–8, 151, 156, 157, 159

Steiner, George 8

Stevens, John, Capt. 133

Stevin, Simon 165, 167, 169, 171

Stillingfleet, Edward 14

Stoppani, Giovanni Niccolò 70

Stoudites, Damaskinos, Bishop 183

Strada, Famiano 128

   De bello belgico 130, 141

Suarez, Francisco 106

Suleiman I ‘the Magnificent’, Sultan 199

Surius, Laurence 90–1

Suso, Heinrich 87

Sweden, translation campaign 18, 19

Swieten, Gerard van 209

synopsis, translation by 40

syntax, reproduction of original 35

Szafarzyński, Jacob 15


Tacitus, P. Cornelius 126

Tasso, Torquato 19, 24, 33, 65, 70

   Aminta 75

   Gerusalemme liberata 20–1, 75

Tauler, Johannes 87

technical language, translation of 9

technology 74

Teelinck, Willem 15

Teglio, Silvestro 31, 70, 78

Temple, William 22

Tende, Gaspard de 30

   Règles de la traduction 25

Teresa of Avila, St 72, 92, 94, 95

Terracini, Benvenuto 8

Tezkireci Köse Ibrahim Effendi 205–6

Thompson, Emmanuel 120

Thott, Birgitte 12

Thucydides 127

Topal Recep Pasha 209

Toury, Gideon 2

Toxites, Michael 172

Traheron, William 133

Tranovský, Juraj 59

‘translatability’ 7

Translation Studies 2–3

translation(s)

   bibliography 100

   choice of material 20–1

   collaborative 11, 46–7, 205

   cultural impact 35–8, 99–100, 173–5, 192

   defined 67

   historical role 1–3

   ideological grounds for 173–5, 176, 178–9 (see also translators: motives)

   inaccurate 56, 93 (see also misunderstanding)

   programmes 16–19, 120–1

   (proposed) areas of study 99–100

   role in cultural exchange 10, 97, 98, 102–3

   second-hand 27

   target readership 21–2, 70–1, 72, 84, 102, 106, 131–2, 164

   terminology 25–6

   theories/methods 11, 24–35, 105–6, 124, 150

translators

   amateur 12

   anonymous/pseudonymous 69

   categories 11–16

   errors see misunderstanding translation(s): inaccurate

   improvements on original 30

   motives 105, 118, 121, 124, 148 (see also commercialism; translation(s): ideological grounds for)

   nationalities 70

   omissions see bowdlerization; contraction

   oral see interpreters

   professional 12–13, 132–3, 200, 201

   reversal of authorial intent 33, 38

   teams see translation(s): collaborative

   see also clergy; royalty; women

transposition (of action/settings) 32–3

travel

   books on 21, 74–5

   role in European education 103–4

Trediakovsky, Vasilij 13

Trenchard, John 123

Trent, Council of 62, 124

Tuck, Richard 113

Tuning, Jan 167

Turkish

   original works in 197–8, 209–10

   translations into 193–6, 200–6, 207–8, 209, 211

Turks/Turkey see Ottoman Empire

Turler, Johannes 79

Tyler, Margaret 12


Ulloa, Alfonso de 16, 132

Ulugh Beg 193, 206

Umur Beg 194

Union of Brothers 58

universities

   admissions policy 198–9

   linguistic preferences 175–6

‘untranslatability’ 25

Urquhart, Sir Thomas 32

Utraquists 56–7, 61


Vagnoni, Alfonso 42–3, 45

Valdés, Juan/Alfonso de 93

Valla, Lorenzo 17, 89, 126

Valverde de Hamusco, Juan 210

van den Bos, Lambert 133

Varenius, Bernhardus 18

Varthema, Ludovico de 21

Vasilii Shuiskii, Tsar 216

Vasilii the Great 213

Vaughn, William 116

Vazquez del Marmol, Juan 91

Venice (city-state) 202

   Greek community 185

   political treatises from/on 110–11

Venuti, Lawrence 2, 26

Verbiest, Ferdinand 43, 45, 190

Vergil, Polydore 22

   History of Inventors 129, 132, 141

vernaculars

   defined 67

   increase in use/prestige 168–70

   (studies of) translations between 3–4, 22–4, 84, 165–7

   see also Latin

Vesalius, Andreas 18

   De humani corporis fabrica 217

veterinary science 195–6

Vetter, Conrad 15

Vienne, Philibert de, Le philosophe de court 36

Vigenère, Blaise de 126

Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da 18

Villehardouin, Geoffroy de 126, 130

Vindiciae contra tyrannos (anon.) 105–6, 117

Virgil (P. Vergilius Maro) 18, 35

   Aeneid 19, 29

Vladimir, St 212–13

Vlahos, Gerasimos

   ‘Harmonia definitive entium’ 188

   translation of Hippocrates 190

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 51, 155–6

   Henriade 75

   L’orphelin de la Chine 154

Vondel, Joost van, Zungchin 129

Voragine, Jacob, Legenda aurea 83, 86, 94


Waesberge, Jan van 165, 176

Wagenaer, Lucas Jansz, Speculum nauticum 74

Waldergrave, William 118

Walford, Benjamin 176

Walker, William 117

Wallenstein, Albrecht von 73

Wallis, John 169

   Algebra 171, 175

Wanckel, Johannes 112

war(s)

   news reports 143

   see also names of conflicts

Waucquier, Mateo Martinez 69

Webster, Charles 164, 172

Wei Douxu 43

Weisse, Christian 13

Welsaer, Mark 74

Weyer, Johan 36

Wheler, Sir George 208

White Mountain, Battle of 59

Willymat, William 119

Władislaw (Ladislaus), Prince 72

Wolff, Christian, Cogitationes rationales 77

women

   as patrons of translation 16

   role in devotional life 99

   as translators 12–13

   see also periodicals

Wood, Anthony, History of Oxford 67

word-for-word see literality

Wysocki, Simon 15


Xenophon 127

Ximenes, Cardinal see Jiménez de Cisneros

Xu Guangqi, Paul 39, 41, 43, 47

Xu Zongze 39


Yaroslav the Wise 213

Yom-tob, Jacob ben David 184

Yushkevich, A. P. 216


Zhu Sihan 43

Žilina, Synod of 57, 58–9


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