Hacia el traductor de La Zucca del Doni en Spañol

The Spanish translation of A. F. Doni’Zucca (1551) was published just four months after the Italian editio princeps by the same printer; at that time the interest on books in the Spanish language or translated from Spanish was in fact very high in Venice. For this reason, it is quite rare that a translator remained anonymous, and particularly in this case, as he shows a strong personality, emerging from the pages of his dedication to G. A. Dovizi and from the translation itself; besides, a clear (and modern) idea of how to proceed springs out from his comments about translation. In this context, it is our pourpose to approach a portrait of this anonymous translator, following the traces that he left in the dedication and in part in the translation, but also collecting some extra-textual data, such as the identity of the abbot to which the text is dedicated. It will emerge the figure of a cultivated person, with a deep knowledge of the Holy Scripture and a strong sense of religion.