IS THE SPLIT BETWEEN LITERAL AND FREE TRANSLATION OUT OF DATE? A CASE STUDY: CANTEMIR’S TRANSLATION FROM STIMULI VIRTUTUM, FRAENA PECCATORUM (I)

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the central issues of Cantemir's translation from Stimuli virtutum, fraena peccatorum: translatability and fidelity. Taking into account the special relation between the original version and the Romanian text, the concepts of free and literal translation become questionable and need to be reexamined.

Keywords

• Faithfulness
• verbum e verbo translation
• sensum pro sensu translation