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French: Madame Dacier, Anne Le Fèvre
DACIER, ANNE-LEFÈVRE. - French writer, b. at Saumur in March 1654, d. at Paris on 17 Aug. 1720. Among the many translations from Greek and Latin, notable was her prose translation, faithful and ponderous, of the two Homeric poems (1711-14). On the basis of her translation of the Iliad, A. Houdar La Motte remade one of his own, in verse, in 12 cantos, adapted to the taste of the century (1714).
From this arose a literary war: in defense of Homer, which Mme D. undertook with especially ethical arguments in Des causes de la corruption du goût (1715), La Motte responded, supported by numerous critics, from N. C. Trublet to Terrasson (whose Dissertation critique sur l'Iliade is from 1715), to the Jesuit J. Hardouin (Apologie d'Homère, 1716), to Duclos. Mme D. had converted to Catholicism in 1685.
Bibliography2 worksC. A. de Sainte-Beuve, M.me D., in Nouveaux lundis, 3rd ed., IX, Paris 1870, pp. 473-513; P. Mazon, M.me D. et les traducteurs d'Homère en F
BIBL.: C. A. de Sainte-Beuve, M.me D., in Nouveaux lundis, 3rd ed., IX, Paris 1870, pp. 473-513; P. Mazon, M.me D. et les traducteurs d'Homère en France, Oxford 1936.
Scudieri, Ruggieri Jole. “Dacier, anne-lefèvre.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1106. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/dacier-anne-lefevre.
MLA
Scudieri, Ruggieri Jole. “Dacier, anne-lefèvre.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1106. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/dacier-anne-lefevre.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_dacier_anne_lefevre,
author = {Scudieri, Ruggieri Jole},
title = {Dacier, anne-lefèvre},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {1106},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/dacier-anne-lefevre}
}
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