“An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song” : : Italian Translations of Hebrew Literature in the Early Modern Period / / Alessandro Guetta.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 72
• VerfasserIn: Guetta, Alessandro,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 72.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Notes: This volume presents dozens of classical Hebrew texts translated into literary Italian. It is the first study of an almost ignored corpus, showing the degree of cultural and linguistic integration of the Jews of Italy long before the German Haskala.
• Other title: Italian Translations of Hebrew Literature in the Early Modern Period
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004515376
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alessandro Guetta.

This volume presents the culmination of research on an almost ignored literary corpus: the translations into literary Italian of classical Hebrew texts made by Jews between 1550 and 1650. It includes dozens of poetical and philosophical texts and wisdom literature as well as dictionaries and biblical translations produced in what their authors viewed as a national tongue, common to Christians and Jews. In so doing, the authors/translators explicitly left behind the so-called Judeo-Italian. These texts, many of them being published for the first time, are studied in the context of intellectual and literary history. The book is an original contribution showing that the linguistic acculturation of German Jews in the late 18th century occurred in Italy 150 years earlier.