1973, ISBN: 9780822932505

University, of Pittsburgh Press, 700 p. Leinen / Cloth. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradi… Mehr…

University, of Pittsburgh Press, 700 p. Leinen / Cloth. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht berieben und bestoßen, sonst guter Zustand / Binding slightly rubbed and scuffed, otherwise in good condition. - This English edition of Antonello Gerbi?s masterpiece is the delayed sequel to suggestions that began to be heard as soon as the original version of the work was published in Italy in 1955. Reviewers and readers on both sides of the Atlantic expressed the hope that a work dealing with such a fundamental aspect of American civilization might someday become available in English. When I was asked to prepare such a translation I was delighted and flattered, and my subsequent experience confirmed my initial feeling that it was indeed a rare privilege. Not the least of the pleasures it afforded me was the chance to meet the author and spend some time in his company. From the beginning Dr. Gerbi has followed the preparation of the English edition of his work with lively interest and has been unstinting in his advice and help. The result has been a close and entirely harmonious collaboration, which has contributed more than any other factor, I feel, to the successful completion of the project. I am happy to have this chance to thank Dr. Gerbi for his hospitality, courtesy, and patience throughout this period. Every task of translation has its problems, large and small. The most important of these, in my opinion, is the translator?s need to recognize that his work must of necessity fall short of perfection. Each language is a unique and separate entity and the very process of translation is in itself a change in expression, quite apart from any alterations in con- notative value that may, or seemingly must, result from the translation. The degree of imperfection, the ?imprecision factor,? varies with the nature of the text. In a scientific text it may be minimal; in a text where the author?s style is an issue it must, regrettably, be somewhat greater. Dr. Gerbi is above all a fine stylist, as more than one reviewer has pointed out. His lightness of touch in dealing with the most abstruse subjects is something quite literally inimitable. In such a case the translator must recognize the limitations inherent in the nature of his undertaking, and attempt the possible; he must endeavor to do justice to each single allusion, suggestion, and innuendo, to say no more than the author says, and no less; and to say it in the way the author says it. [...] ISBN 9780822932505Kulturgeschichte 1973, [PU: University of Pittsburgh Press]<