Abstract
The first full translation of Orlando in Italian was published on 1 October 1933 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the prestigious Medusa collection, a series aimed at presenting “the great novelists of every country”1 to the Italian public. This claim was announced on each of its covers, including Orlando’s. What made the Italian translation of Orlando such a literary and economic success was not only the brilliance of the novel along with the editorial ambitions of Mondadori but also, as I shall show, the lexical expertise of its translator, Alessandra Scalero. In her translation Scalero was able to remain true to the spirit and the style of a subversive novel and what is more remarkable, she accomplished this feat in a climate of repressive censorship.
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Villa, S. (2010). Translating Orlando in 1930s Fascist Italy: Virginia Woolf, Arnoldo Mondadori, and Alessandra Scalero. In: Dubino, J. (eds) Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114791_14
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