Bhagavadgītā à Copacabana S.I. : littérature dévotionnelle traduite de la langue « indienne » au XVIe siècle
(2020) Les études classiques — Vol. 88, n° = Hommage au professeur Lambert Isebaert, p. p. 451-464 (2020)
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- (en) The paper “Bhagavadgītā in Copacabana S.I.: devotional literature translated from the ‘Indian’ language in the 16th century” deals with the beginnings of the Jesuit ‘missionary philology’ at the end of the 16th century, through, on the one – East Indian – side, the first references (starting in 1559) to manuscripts and textual contents of the Hindu Bhagavadgītā, and, on the other – West Indian – side, to a prayer miraculously revelated in the indigenous language by the Andean Virgin of Copacabana, whose Latin translation by the Jesuit poet and rhetorician Francesco Benci (1589) enjoyed some success in the XVIIth century, notably translated into Polish by the poet Stanisław Grochowski in 1611. The book of the latter, Cudowne wiersze z indyjskiego języka (“Wonderful verses from the Indian language”), a collection of various devotional poems in addition to the one which provides its title, was unfortunately sometimes presented as a translation... of the Bhagavadgītā.
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Vielle, C. (2020). Bhagavadgītā à Copacabana S.I. : littérature dévotionnelle traduite de la langue « indienne » au XVIe siècle. Les études classiques, 88(= Hommage au professeur Lambert Isebaert), p. 451-464. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/23682 (Original work published 2020)