"My Own Worst Enemy": Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy

This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early Latin translations and commentaries initially tran...

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Main Author: Brazeau, Bryan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Iter Press 2018
In: Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2018, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 9-42
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBJ Italy
NBE Anthropology
TB Antiquity
VA Philosophy
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