Juan Luis Vives e a tradução da oratio do autor

Abstract

In De ratione dicendi, one of his most important works, Vives devotes its last chapter to a reflection on the art of translating. The Spanish humanist conceives translation as the transposition of meaning, wrapped, of course, in a form that reproduces or even recreates the grace of the original. The “sense-formal” translation is the only one that allows for greater “fidelity” to the original, the only one that strives to reproduce or imitate the original oratio, the main element that the translator must pursue.