Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiators

1. Introduction: Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiation
Dario Tessicini

2. Three Monks and a Philosopher: Religious Men Travelling and Translating in Medieval Serbia
Tatjana Đurin

3. Patterns of Translation: Contacts and Linguistic Variety in Italian Late Medieval Diplomacy (ca. 1380–1520)
Isabella Lazzarini

4. Becoming a Classic: Benedetto Varchi’s Boezio (1551) and ‘The Language of Florence’
Dario Brancato

5. ‘Leo Africanus’ and His Worlds of Translation
Natalie Zemon Davis

6. A Servant of Two Masters: The Translator Michel Angelo Corai as a Tuscan Diplomat (1599–1609)
Federico M. Federici

7. Translation and Adaptation in Original Composition: Lodowick Bryskett’s Use of His Sources in A Discourse of Civill Life (1606)
Sergio Portelli

8. Revisiting Malinche: A Study of Her Role as an Interpreter
María Laura Spoturno

9. The Political and Diplomatic Significance of Interpreters/Translators in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Taiwan
Pin-Ling Chang

10. Hegel and the Latin Bhagavadgītā (1823): A Critique of Understanding and Translating the Foreign
Madhuvanti Chintamani Karyekar

11. Translating Modern Fiction into Persian: A Snowball Story
Mohammad Emami

12. Translating Aboriginal Siberian and Circumpolar Cultures in Russia
Veronica Razumovskaya

Keywords: Linguistics, Translation, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation Studies, Communication Studies