“My Own Worst Enemy”: Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy

By Bryan Brazeau

This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early…

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Version 1.0 - published on 22 Apr 2025

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