Když dva dělají totéž: dvakrát dva překlady téhož textu do češtiny v 16. století

• Authors: Ondřej Koupil

Title variants

EN

When two do the same thing: two times two translations of the same text into Czech in the 16th century

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses translations of Ep. 5,27 by Marsilius Ficinus (Veritas de institutione principis): the work of an anonymous translator (perhaps Ř. Hrubý) and a later translation by O. Velenský. The article also analyses translations of Historia Bohemica by Aeneas Silvius (Konáč, 1510; Adam, 1585). The first Ficinus translation simplifies the ancient realia, avoids Latin infinitive constructions and translates some words with two expressions (multiplication). Velenský imitates Latin grammar in Czech. Konáč adheres to the verbum e verbo method, but substitutes words considered critical by Utraquist readers. Adam translates faithfully, but like the first translator of Ficinus, he uses multiplication and explicates within the translation. The translation style for the more literarily challenging texts was influenced by the translators’/publishers’ estimation of the readers’ skills.

Keywords

CS

Daniel Adam z Veleslavína; Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Marsilio Ficino; Mikuláš Konáč z Hodiškova; Oldřich Velenský; translatologie

EN

Daniel Adam of Veleslavín; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini; Marsilius Ficinus; Mikuláš Konáč of Hodiškov; Oldřich Velenský; translation studies

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 395-428
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ondřej Koupil

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic