Leopardi e os paratextos às traduções poéticas: crítica, história e teoria

Abstract

Primarily known for being the poet of Canti and the prosaist of Operette Morali, Giacomo Leopardi is an author with an heterogeneous profi le, as he was also an essayist, critic, theoretician, translator, and author of a vast epistolary. Through his own practice in the case of several Greek and Latin authors, Leopardi refl ected on translation. The purpose of this article is to present and analyze the poet’s main ideas about translation as contained in these prefaces.