A tradução na poesia trovadoresca galego-portuguesa em antologias: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The present work aims to reflect and analyze the way of presentation and organization of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry in two anthologies: Cantigas de Trovadores Medievais em Português Moderno (1953), organized by Brazilian teacher Cleonice Berardinelli and published by Organizações Simões, from Rio de Janeiro; and Cantares dos Trovadores Galego-Portugueses (1998), organized by the Portuguese poet and critic Natália Correia and published by Estampa, from Lisbon. What both anthologies have in common is the fact that the organizers of the works chose to present, alongside the original poems, a translation into modern Portuguese, in order to make more accessible reading and understanding the poems – written in medieval language, Galician-Portuguese. So, to fulfill our objective, we focused on the presentations given in the prefaces of the anthologies, as well as the translations of the troubadour songs, analyzed in comparison with the original composition. With this, we intend to reflect on the motivations, as well as the translation methods of the organizers; We also attempted to analyze whether the presentation of the anthologies in bilingual form proved to be truly satisfactory and whether it made reading and understanding the medieval texts, presented in comparison with the translations into modern Portuguese, more accessible.