Lettere sugli Scritti e sul Carattere di G. G. Rousseau della Baronessa di Stael Holstein. Tradotte dal Francese. Con un discorso del Traduttore sullo stesso argomento
Authors of source text
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël-Holstein
Contributions
- Giovanni Tamassia
- translator
- Dalla Stamperia Landi (Landi)
- publisher
Related resources
- is translation of
- Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.J. Rousseau has translation
Summary (extracted citations)
+ Translator's 6-page preface (to be entered) Its translation is prefaced by a lengthy discourse in which Tamassia delivers his own opinions on Rousseau, whom he calls a modern-day Prometheus “The translator, C.-G. Tamassia, judges certain opinions of Mme de Stael to be rather liberal; but he comments on her with enthusiasm in the preface". See Charles Dejob, 'Madame de Staël et l'Italie: Avec une Bibliographie de l'influence Française en Italie, de 1796 à 1814, Vol.1' (1890), pp.203ff. Il Traduttore, pp. 5-10; segue il testo delle Lettere della Staél, pp. 11-137 (di cui Prefazione / della Baronessa di Stael [sic] / alla prima edizione, pp. 11-12; Seconda prefazione / nel 1814., pp. 13-18 e alcune note a firma: Il Traduttore, pp. 21 ne 24 n); Della / eloquenza / di Gian Giacomo Rousseau. / Discorso del C. Giovanni Τamasia [sic, da correggere in: Tamassia, secondo l'errata-corrige finale] con le parti: Prefazione, pp. 141-149; Della / eloquenza / di Gian-Giacomo Rousseau, pp. 150-181, Nota, pp. 182-192 (con la lettera —· data in italiano — del Rousseau al Malesherbes, da Montmorency, del 26 gennaio 1762). (Errata-corrige), p. [193].
Notes
Includes Mme de Stael's new preface to the 1814 reissue.
The curious choice of Mendrisio for the place of printing was probably due to Rousseau’s controversial status in Italy. While Mendrisio is in Switzerland, it lies just a few miles from the Italian border. Rousseau faced strong opposition from the conservative establishment in Italy, and alongside other authors of the French enlightenment, his works were immediately placed on the Index, so with a few exceptions he was not widely translated in Italy until the 19th century.
See Charles Dejob, 'Madame de Staël et l'Italie: Avec une Bibliographie de l'influence Française en Italie, de 1796 à 1814, Vol.1' (1890, Armand Colin).