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Talk:Fiore de'i Liberi
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Work | Author(s) | Source | License |
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Illustrations (Getty) | J. Paul Getty Museum | Digital images courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program | |
Illustrations (Morgan) | Morgan Library & Museum | Princeton Institute of Christian Art | |
Illustrations (Novati) | Francesco Novati | Flos Dvellatorvm in Armis, sine Armis, Eqvester, Pedester | |
Illustrations (Paris) | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Gallica | |
Translation | Colin Hatcher | Private communication | |
Translation | Michael Chidester | Wiktenauer | |
Translation | Kendra Brown and Rebecca Garber | Cambridge HEMA Society | |
Morgan Version | Michael Chidester | Index:Trattato della scherma (MS M.383) | |
Getty Version | Michael Chidester | Index:Fior di Battaglia (MS Ludwig XV 13) | |
Pisani Dossi Version | Michael Chidester | Index:Flos Duellatorum (Pisani Dossi MS) | |
Paris Version | Kendra Brown and Rebecca Garber | Index:Florius de Arte Luctandi (MS Latin 11269) | |
San Daniele del Friuli Version | Luigi Zanutto | Index:Fior di Battaglia (MS XXIV) |
Translation Notes (Paris)
For a longer discussion of the process of creating this translation, see Kendra Brown et al.'s article [Florius de Arte Luctandi: Challenges and Discoveries in a Contemporary Latin Translation of Fiore dei Liberi http://hroarr.com/florius-de-arte-luctandi-challenges-and-discoveries-in-a-contemporary-latin-translation-of-fiore-dei-liberi/].
We would like to state from the outset that the translation offered here should not be considered complete or final. Instead we offer it in the spirit of collaboration, with which it was composed, to the wider pool of knowledge in hopes that this will lead to improvements and fruitful discussion. Therefore, this introduction serves both as a brief record of our difficulties with the text, as a springboard to some of our questions, and as an invitation to improve the translation.
There are already two print translations extant. Charlélie Berthaut’s initial transcription and translation into French (to be included in a forthcoming publication)[1] was unfortunately based on poorer quality scans, which prevented him from identifying many of the later edits/erasures to the text, although Emmeline Baudet’s 2013 French thesis, transcription, and translation takes a much more detailed approach, addressing interlineal and marginal notes.[2] The more recent Italian translation by Francesco Lodà in 2014 took advantage of the higher-resolution scans that we also used.[3] The Lodà transcription is of excellent quality and highly recommended. Due to these publications, an English translation seemed overdue.
The text is difficult. At 44 folia, we anticipated a project that would cover a semester at our weekly meetings. Instead, the first complete draft took close to two years. The reasons for this are numerous, and largely given above. In addition, while it would have been easy to rely on the Pisani Dossi Ms. to guide the translation process, we discovered early on that even though the two manuscripts often showed considerable overlap in word choice, arranging the text of Florius to match the Pisani Dossi would be entirely ungrammatical more often than not. Instead, the Latin was first translated in isolation, and only after this step was the Pisani Dossi consulted to see if it suggested alternative valid readings.
After all that time, this translation is still a work in progress, and we openly invite others to collaborate with us in this endeavor. We freely acknowledge the limits of our expertise, and hope that others will contribute theirs to ultimately yield a high-quality, fluent, English translation, as well as an accurate transcription of the Florius.
References
- ↑ Berthaut, Charlélie. “Florius, de Arte Luctandi - MS Latin 11269 - trancription & traduction.” Pôle d’Etude d’Arts Martiaux Historiques Européens, 2013. http://peamhe.wordpress.com/articles/traduction-du-florius-de-arte-luctandi/. Accessed 2015-11-23.
- ↑ Baudet, Emmeline. Édition du Florius, de arte luctandi, BNF lat. 11269 (Master’s thesis). Paris: Université Paris Sorbonne IV, 2013. http://www.academia.edu/5420225/%C3%89dition_et_analyse_du_Florius_de_Arte_Luctandi_BNF_Lat._11269. Accessed 2015-11-23.
- ↑ Lodà, Francesco. Florius. De arte luctandi. Traduzione e cura del testo di Francesco Lodà. Rome: Bonanno Editore, 2014.