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Simone Marchesi, Vernacular Edens: Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2025, pp. 238

by Fabian Alfie (Author)
4 Pages
Open Access
Journal: Mediaevistik Volume 39 Issue 1 Publication Year 2026 pp. 475 - 478

Summary

The latest monograph by Simone Marchesi, Vernacular Edens: Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions, is a far-ranging and highly subtle study of medieval European literature. Marchesi is a Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University, whose principal work is focused on Dante and Giovanni Boccaccio. His previous book was Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics (University of Toronto, 2011), which explored the impact of the Church Father on the author of the Divine Comedy.

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Pages
4
DOI
10.3726/med.2026.01.135
Open Access
CC-BY
Publication date
2026 (August)
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Fabian Alfie (Author)

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Title: Simone Marchesi, Vernacular Edens: Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2025, pp. 238