O zibaldone di pensieri de Leopardi e a experiência do traduzir

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to comment upon some choices of the Brazilian translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri (1817-1832). Started in 2010 and currently in progress at the Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in partnership with the Faculdade de Letras of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, this translation is part of macro project consisting in the translation of Leopardi’s full work in Brazil, supported byf CNPq and by the Centro di Studi Nazionali Leopardiani. Zibaldone di pensieri embodies much of Leopardi’s critical fortune, but the translation is aimed at a wider audience, especially the CPLP – Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa. The translation is commented in light of our translating experience, including some reflections regarding the title, how the reader is addressed, proper names, syntax, and punctuation, relying on the theoretical horizon proposed by Leopardi himself, by Torop, Meshonnic, Berman, and others.