Come annunciato dalla HarperCollins, lo scorso 13 settembre è stata pubblicata la traduzione in latino di The Hobbit: Hobbitv Ille.
'Ottima per gli studenti che imparano il latino, ma anche per gli appassionati
che vogliono cimentarsi nel ritrovare i loro passaggi preferiti", la traduzione, di Mark Walker, vede anche le poesie e i
versi, resi con
metrica classica latina.
Sicueramente, un libro che non può mancare in una collezione che si rispetti.
Hobbitvs Ille
di J.R.R. Tolkien
Traduzione in latino di Mark Walker
HarperCollins, Londra, pp. 320
1° edizione 2012
Illustrazione di copertina di J.R.R. Tolkien
Rilegato con sovraccoperta
Note
HOBBITVS ILLE
aut illuc atque cursus retrorsum in foramine terrae habitabat
hobbitus: nec foedum, sordidum madidumque foranem, ne extremis lumbricorum
atque odore caenoso impletum, nec etiam foramen aridum, inane, harenosum, in
quo nihil erat ad considendum aut edendum aptum; immo foramen-hobbitum, ergo
commodum.
‘In a hole in
the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the
ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing
in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.’
in foramine terrae habitabat
hobbitus.
(‘In a hole in
the ground there lived a hobbit.’)
The Hobbit, published 75 years go, has become one of the world’s most popular classic stories, appealing to adults as much as to the children for whom J.R.R. Tolkien first a wrote the book. Translated worldwide into more than 60 modern languages, now Hobbitus Ille is finally published in Latin, and will be of interest to all those who are studying the language, whether at school or at a higher level.
In the great
tradition of publishing famous children’s books in Latin, professional
classicist and lifelong Tolkien fan Mark Walker provides a deft translation of
the entire book. His attention to detail, including transforming Tolkien’s
songs into a variety of classical and rhythmic Latin metres, will fascinate and
entertain all Latinist, who are rarely given such an opportunity to read Latin
simply for the pleasure of reading.
