The Venetian Qur’an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam

Abstract

1st edition. Preface -- The misfortune of a translation -- The material text : three states, one edition, a history book -- "What everybody wishes for and keeps silent" : analysis of the context through the paratext -- "And he translated the Alcorano in the vulgar tongue" : Giovanni Battista Castrodardo, Translator of the Alcorano di Macometto -- The Iberian and Italian Mi'rāǧ by Giovanni Battista Castrodardo : an unknown Dante scholar and Muhammad's ascension into Heaven -- The religion of the Italians, or Purgatory and the Qur'an : a belief and a place between Robert of Ketton and Roberto Bellarmino -- Scribendae Historiae Gratia : the oration of Sergius the Monk to the Prophet Muhammad -- Reading and rewriting the Alcorano di Macometto : Francesco Sansovino between the Historie Universali and the Selve -- A cheese maker from Lucca and a miller from Friuli -- The fortune of the Alcorano di Macometto and a conclusion -- Appendix.