Giannozzo Manetti's New Testament
Author | : Annet den Haan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004324374 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004324372 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Download or read book Giannozzo Manetti's New Testament written by Annet den Haan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Giannozzo Manetti’s New Testament Annet den Haan analyses the Latin translation of the Greek New Testament made by the fifteenth-century humanist Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459). The book includes the first edition of Manetti’s text. Manetti’s translation was the first since Jerome’s Vulgate, and it predates Erasmus’ Novum Instrumentum by half a century. Written at the Vatican court in the 1450s, it is a unique example of humanist philology applied to the sacred text in the pre-Reformation era. Den Haan argues that Manetti’s translation was influenced by Valla’s Annotationes, and compares Manetti’s translation method with his treatise on correct translation, Apologeticus (1458).