FPG (Greve/Grove)'s Translations:
Dante's Vita Nuova
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| Author: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Title: Aus Dantes Vita Nuova [manuscript]: Sonnet I / Dante, XLI. Sonnet II / Dante, III. Sonnet III / Dante IX. Sonnet IV / Dante, XXI. Sonnet V / Dante, XXXIII. Sonnet VI / Dante, XXXV / [translator, Felix Paul Greve ; Facsimile e-Edition prepared by Gany Divay]. -- Published: [Munich, 1902]. Description: 8 p. -- Series: Divay research document collection ; Mss 12, Box 1 Annotation: Six sonnets from Dante's Vita Nuova. Translated by Greve in this order: XLI, III, IX, XXI, XXXVIII, XXXV. Five use the Petrarchan- [2x4, 2x3 vs], one the Shakespearian [3x4, 1x2 vs] sonnet-form. For Greve's mss sonnets from the Stefan-George-Archiv, Stuttgart, followed by the Italian & German parallel versions, see the Facsimile e-Edition: I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- VI. In a letter to Karl Wolfskehl, 27.1.1902, Greve dates the translation of these sonnets back to 1898, which makes them his earliest known translation. -- Phc obtained in early May 1990 from Dr. Ute Oelmann, Stefan George Archiv, Stuttgart. Subjects: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Translations, German Sources. Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1909 - Knowledge - Translating. Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 - Career in translating and interpreting. Canadian literature - German authors - Biography - Sources Translators - Germany - Munich & Berlin. German literature - Italian influences. |
