Re:A No-Nonsense Machiavelli
by automatwon on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:50AM
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One sentence in particular from his opening dedication to ... reads as both guidance and encouragement for all future translators:
"I haven’t aimed for a fancy style or padded the book out with long sentences or pompous, pretentious words, or any of the irrelevant flourishes and attractions so many writers use; I didn’t want it to please for anything but the range and seriousness of its subject matter."
"I haven’t aimed for a fancy style or padded the book out with long sentences or pompous, pretentious words, or any of the irrelevant flourishes and attractions so many writers use; I didn’t want it to please for anything but the range and seriousness of its subject matter."
For me, this article was the opposite.