Candido ossia l'ottimismo di Voltaire
Authors of source text
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Contributions
- Gaetano Marré
- translator
- Stamperia francese e italiana degli amici della libertà
- publisher
Related resources
- is translation of
- Candide ou l'optimisme traduit de l'allemand du M. le docteur Ralph translation has translation
- has paratext
- Candido ossia l'ottimismo di Voltaire paratext
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Notes
Marré translated Voltaire's prose into verse (octaves). 2 vols. A free translation that expands and syntheses the source text. French loanwords and a "frenchified" syntax signal Marré's opposition to the ideology of linguistic purism. The translation exaggerates the grotesque aspects of e.g. the battle scenes and the Lisbon earthquake, and the overall tone is closer to the mock-heroic epics of the Italian Renaissance than to Voltaire's stylised satire. Voltaire's text is "updated" with more marked anticlerical and anti-colonial critiques, and a more explicitly moralistic and didactic expose of of human vices. "Marré riduce l'amaro esistenziale, il filosofico attraverso un verseggiare volutamente scherzoso [...] Voltaire pensa all'uomo in qualsiasi latitudine, Marré ai Pangloss genovesi, indaffarati nella politica. Nasce da qui il tono scanzonato, comico-grottesco fra scatti e randellate moralistiche, a cui perviene il traduttore" (Edoardo Villa, Genova letterata e giacobina, p. 84).
Electronic locator for vol. 2: https://books.google.co.uk/books id=PipV8Gce5MkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false