‘I Give You Back Plutarch in Latin’: Guarino Veronese’s Version of Plutarch’s Dion (1414) and Early Humanist Translation

Abstract

"Guarino’s translation is in many ways a product of early fifteenth-century human- ism. He aims at a translation which would effectively import the Greek original into Latin humanist culture, by producing a text adapted to the linguistic, literary and stylistic decorum of that culture, or...by furnishing the Greek subject of the work ‘with Latin literary culture’."