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Persian Words of Wisdom Travel to the West

Seventeenth-Century European Translations of Saʿdi’s Gulistan

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Elio Brancaforte Tulane University, New Orleans, Vereinigte Staaten ebranca@tulane.edu

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18 Jul 2017
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This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s Gulistan (1258 ad) into European languages: André du Ryer’s French version (1634), the Latin translation of Georgius Gentius (1651) and the German editions of Friedrich Ochsenbach (1636) and Adam Olearius (1654). The Gulistan – which consists of short, moralistic tales, aphorisms, proverbs, and Sufic lore – helped introduce Persian thought to the early modern European public (and later influenced Goethe’s West-östlicher Diwan as well as Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes).

Title:
Persian Words of Wisdom Travel to the West
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/18796583-04503006
Language:
English
Pages:
450–472
Keywords:
translation; du Ryer; Gentius; Olearius
In:
Daphnis
In:
Volume 45: Issue 3-4
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1879-6583
Print ISSN:
0300-693X
Subjects:
Literature, Arts & Science, Literature and Cultural Studies, German, Early Modern History, History, Art History, Art History, Book History

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