O plágio retraduzido: o caso de Tarchetti e Venuti

Abstract

In this article, we revisit the question of the Mary Shelley’s fantastic tale “The mortal immortal” (1833), translated into Italian by the scapigliato writer Ugo Tarchetti, who assumed the work as his in both editions: the 1865 one, whose title was “Il mortale immortale (dall’inglese)” and the 1868 one, named “L’elixir dell’immortalità (imitazione dall’inglese)” in the Italian magazines Rivista Minima and Emporio Pittoresco. We aim to reflect on why Tarchetti had such attitude and why Lawrence Venuti retranslated the text that was originally in English into English.