“Mais où sont les proverbes d’antan?” From "Dialogus creaturarum" to its French translations (1482-1550 ca)
Abstract
Composed in Italy in the 14th Century, the Dialogus creaturarum was translated three times into French: twice in prose towards the end of the 15th Century, once in verse around 1540. In this collection of 122 fables, proverbs play a major role: not only do they summarize the moral of each apologue, but they mark its internal structure, clearly bipartite between delectare and docere. This article attempts to compare the treatment of the proverbs in these translations, with particular attention to the last one, where the embedding of distiches in a text organized in stanzas sometimes leads to their loss.
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