Poetic tradition and the voice of the translator: The first verse translations of Dante’s Commedia

Abstract

This paper analyses and compares the variety of text types in the first verse translations of Dante’s Commedia: the Catalan translation by Andreu Febrer (1429), the Spanish translation by Pedro Fernández de Villegas (printed in 1515), and an anonymous French translation preserved in a manuscript dating from between 1491 and 1530. All these translations are the first verse translations of the work into their respective languages.

Keywords

• Dante’s Commedia
• Poetry translation
• Andreu Febrer
• Fernández de Villegas
• French 16th-century translations