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The Venetian Qur'an : A Renaissance Companion to Islam /

An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tommasino, Pier Mattia (Autor)
Otros Autores: Notini, Sylvia (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Colección:Material Texts
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Misfortune of a Translation
  • 2. The Material Text: Three States, One Edition, a History Book
  • 3. "What Everybody Wishes for and Keeps Silent": Analysis of the Context Through the Paratext
  • 4. "And He Translated the Alcorano in the Vulgar Tongue": Giovanni Battista Castrodardo, Translator of the Alcorano di Macometto
  • 5. The Iberian and Italian Mi'rāǧ by Giovanni Battista Castrodardo: An Unknown Dante Scholar and Muhammad's Ascension into Heaven
  • 6. The Religion of the Italians, or Purgatory and the Qur'an: A Belief and a Place Between Robert of Ketton and Roberto Bellarmino
  • 7. Scribendae Historiae Gratia: The Oration of Sergius the Monk to the Prophet Muhammad
  • 8. Reading and Rewriting the Alcorano di Macometto: Francesco Sansovino Between the Historie Universali and the Selve
  • 9. A Cheese Maker from Lucca and a Miller from Friuli
  • 10. The Fortune of the Alcorano di Macometto and a Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Acknowledgments