Il lessico di Ausiàs March: problemi di traduzione

The paper aims to underline the difficulties inherent in translating a poet such as Ausiàs March. All those who have endeavored to translate March in a modern language are well aware of the danger of betraying the original text. Translators have to face potential pitfalls like the often obscure syntax of March's poems, their semantic density, their comparison-based structure, and their liberal usage of specialized languages (legal, medical, nautical, etc.). On the basis of the work that was carried out for IVITRA, my paper intends to offer a survey of the typology of the problems in translating March.