{"id":10620,"date":"2016-10-21T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T19:57:22","slug":"aut-prodesse-aut-delectare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/21\/aut-prodesse-aut-delectare\/","title":{"rendered":"Aut prodesse aut delectare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This coming year of 2017 marks the 250th anniversary of the start of one of the most ambitious publishing projects ever undertaken in eighteenth-century Italy, the\u00a0Ornithologia methodice digesta<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>of Salverio Manetti.<\/p>\n

As in many contemporary works, the text of the lavishly illustrated volumes is bilingual, the inner of the two columns on each page in Italian, the outer in Latin, such that on each opening the vernacular is flanked by the eternal language of western scholarship.<\/p>\n

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The two texts are very nearly the same\u00a0— but not quite identical. Manetti appears to have been\u00a0aware that his two audiences, the vernacular and the erudite, brought different expectations to the\u00a0text, an awareness made almost explicit in one of the few variant readings introduced by the translator.<\/p>\n

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In his introductory note, the author alerts Latin readers to his having provided\u00a0in each volume but the last<\/p>\n

a text that will teach the reader more and more about this field of knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The translation adds something: all of the volumes but the index contain<\/p>\n

an instructive and entertaining text,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“un instruttivo e dilettevol discorso.”<\/p>\n

Manetti and his publishers were covering their commercial bases.<\/p>\n

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This coming year of 2017 marks the 250th anniversary of the start of one of the most ambitious publishing projects ever undertaken in eighteenth-century Italy, the\u00a0Ornithologia methodice digesta\u00a0of Salverio Manetti. As in many contemporary works, the text of the lavishly illustrated volumes is bilingual, the inner of the two columns on each page in Italian, … <\/p>\n

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