The German translation of Antonio Santacroce’s La segreteria di Apollo and the contribution of the Georg Muller publisher in Frankfurt to the reception of Italian literature in Germany in the 18th century

Abstract

The publisher Georg Müller in Frankfurt put out eighteen books between 1660 and 1663. Eight were translations from Italian, three of which were Italian literary texts translated by Johann Makle: Boccaccio’s Labirinto d’amore (otherwise known as Corbaccio), Antonio Santacroce’s Segreteria di Apollo and Arcangela Tarabotti’s Semplicità ingannata. The contribution will analyze these translations focusing especially on adaptation for a German Lutheran public and searching for a possible editorial project in Müller’s catalogue.

Keywords

• Traduzione tedesca
• Johann Makle
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Antonio Santacroce
• Arcangela Tarabott