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Les traductions d'Angelo Clareno

Angelo Clareno traducteur : le projet TRANSMAR

Armelle Le Huërou

Abstracts

The TRANSMAR project ("Angelo Clareno (ca. 1260–1337) as a Marginal Translator of the Greek Fathers: Circulation of Texts and People in Europe before Humanism"), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (No. 101105680) and based at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, aims to explore a neglected dimension of medieval intellectual history: the transmission of Greek patristic texts into Latin before the rise of Humanism.

At the heart of this investigation lies the dissident Franciscan friar Angelo Clareno (ca. 1260–1337). Rather than openly challenging ecclesiastical authority, Clareno pursued alternative spiritual paths to those officially sanctioned by the Church hierarchy. Well before Greek studies became widespread in the Latin West, he undertook the translation of several major works from the Eastern Christian tradition into Latin, many of them previously unknown in the Latin world. Some of these translations remained confined to Italy, while others, such as his version of the Scala Paradisi corpus, circulated more broadly throughout Europe, influencing various spiritual and intellectual traditions.

The TRANSMAR project seeks to reconstruct the trajectories of these texts and to analyse the networks of production, circulation, and reception – including the translator himself, scribes, readers, and communities – that contributed to their preservation and dissemination.

The project’s findings are presented here in the form of analytical summaries dedicated to each translated author, except for Athanasius of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa, whose Latin versions of the Letter to Marcellinus and On the Diapsalma are always transmitted together. Each translated text, including those within a corpus – such as the Ascetica of Basil of Caesarea or the Scala Paradisi of John Climacus – is subject to individual analysis. Each translation is accompanied by a detailed identification, including: the reference to the original Greek text (CPG number, with a link to the Pinakes database), the Greek manuscript(s) used (if identifiable), the list of Latin manuscript witnesses, the attested Latin titles, the incipit and explicit, information regarding the date and place of the translation (when available), as well as any other relevant codicological or contextual information.

This approach aims to establish a descriptive record for each translation, enabling cross-comparison and fostering a deeper understanding of the dynamics of textual circulation.

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Armelle Le Huërou, “Angelo Clareno traducteur : le projet TRANSMAR”Oliviana [Online], 8 | 2025, Online since 26 November 2025, connection on 22 January 2026. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/oliviana/2074

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