L. Sterns Newburg has this to say about the new Tasso book:
An
impressive piece of scholarship, and a valuable practical document for
those interested in the great Italian poet, Torquato Tasso. This is a
translation of Tasso's Il Creato Mundo, and the translators have been
faithful - I want to say "lovingly faithful" - to the spirit and the
words of the original. Tasso's original is in some ways an eccentric
performance, so this translation presented numerous technical
challenges, most of which have been surmounted.
The most
difficult part of Tasso to recreate in English is the music of the
original Italian. Any translation from a Romance language to English
that somehow recreates such music engaged in a species of legerdemain,
and inevitably, it results in subtle departures from sense of the
original. The translators did not attempt to recreate Tasso's music.
Tasso
cannot, perhaps, really speak to us in English, but the able
translators have given us something far superior to a mere crib.
Bravissimo!
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