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Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442.This third volume concludes the edition, the first to make the work available in English translation. It includes Bruni's Memoirs, an autobiographical account of the events of his lifetime, and cumulative indexes to the complete History.

Die kommentierte Ubersetzung hat das erste Ubersetzungstraktat der Neuzeit aus der Feder des italienischen Renaissancehumanisten Leonardo Bruni zum Gegenstand. Dieser relativ kurze, aber zentrale Traktat, der in der Form eines Briefes um 1424 verfasst wurde und unter dem Titel 'De interpretatione recta' beruhmt geworden ist, markiert in mehrfacher Hinsicht einen entscheidenden Einschnitt in der Geschichte der Ubersetzungstheorie und ist bislang noch nie ins Deutsche ubersetzt worden. Den Band erganzt die Ubersetzung einiger Ubersetzervorworte Brunis zu seinen Plato- und Aristotelesubersetzungen sowie ein Brief zum Ubersetzen an Niccolo Niccoli. Er beleuchtet den Wechsel vom Terminus 'translatio' zum Terminus 'traductio' und macht dies auch im Originaltext nachvollziehbar. Die ubersetzungshistorische und -theoretische Dimension wird deutlich durch die Situierung des Textes innerhalb eines globalen Ubergangsprozesses von vertikaler zu horizontaler Ubersetzung und ermoglicht es, Bruni als Begrunder neuzeitlicher Ubersetzungsreflexion zu wurdigen und seine Aktualitat fur die Ubersetzungspraxis bis ins 20. Jahrhundert zu erkennen.