Notes on the history and vocabulary of “Vorontsov’s translation” of Beccaria’s treatise
DOI
10.30842/26583755202212
Gherbezza E.
Notes on the history and vocabulary of “Vorontsov’s translation” of Beccaria’s treatise
SHLL, Vol. 5. 2022
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215–230
Abstract
This paper is devoted to the so‑called “Vorontsov’s translation” of Beccaria’s treatise “On Crimes and Punishments”, which is still in the archive of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. On the basis of textual analysis the author identified the source text and then examines the language of “Vorontsov’s translation” in comparison with other translations of Beccaria’s treatise of the early 19th century. The translator is identified as Ivan Tatishchev, who worked on translations from French, German and English at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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