Cultures in Contact

Contents: Vittoria Intonti/Rosella Mallardi: Introduction - Vittoria Intonti: An Overview - Rosella Mallardi: I Promessi Sposi: The State of the Translations - Rosella Mallardi: The Translations of I Promessi Sposi into English and French: Inter-Textual Relations between Swan (1828), Rey-Dussueil (1828) and Gosselin's (1828) Translations - Rosella Mallardi: 'Multiple' Translation: Inter-Textual Relations between the English and American Translations, and the French Translations of I Promessi Sposi - Rosella Mallardi: Manzoni, a Writer in Search of an Italo-European Language: I Promessi Sposi and the 'Visibility' of its Early French (and English) Translators - Maria Cristina Consiglio: Reflections on Manzoni's Paratext and its Translation - Vittoria Intonti: Translating Lucia's 'addio, monti' - Maristella Gatto: 'For the love of Heaven!'. Translating Words and Phrases in Manzoni's 'Catholic' Novel - Margherita Ippolito: Irony in Nineteenth Century English Translations of I Promessi Sposi - Rosella Mallardi: Appendix A: The Main Variations between the Three Editions of I Promessi Sposi: Milan 1827, Paris 1827, Milan 1840 - Appendix B: Norton's 1834 Translation Lucia, The Betrothed, the English 1834 and 1844 Translations Compared with their Different Source Texts - Appendix C: Divergences between Norton's Lucia, The Betrothed, and the Twin English 1834 Version The Betrothed - Appendix D: Traces of Rey-Dussueil, Gosselin, de Montgrand and Swan's Versions in the Definitive Edition of I Promessi Sposi (Milan, 1840).

Vittoria Intonti, Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Bari, held courses on Literary Translation and American Literature. She was the Co-ordinator of Dottorato di Ricerca in Teoria e Prassi della traduzione at SAGEO Department, is a member of AIA, the Italian Association of English Studies, and of AISNA, the Italian Association of North American Studies. Her privileged research areas are English Renaissance theatre, Modernism, the short story and literary translation.
Rosella Mallardi is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bari. She is currently investigating the influences of photography on literature and culture in Europe and America during the 19th century.