On sekizinci yüzyılda İtalyan teknik literatürü, Giovanni Polini'nin bilimsel düşüncesi ve aydınlanma

Translating a text written in the technical Italian language of the eighteenth century, the time of Enlightenment, into contemporary English involves twofold process,i.e. interlingual translation, when it occurs between two languages, and the intralingual translation, when it occurs in the same language; the translation becomes harder when the language is subjected to changes over the centuries. On this purpose, the thesis puts three languages and cultures in confrontation: old Italian, modern Italian and modern English involving, therefore, both interlingual translation, between two languages, and the intralingual translation, only in one language. Taking into consideration the above-mentioned construct, the current thesis aims at exploring and discussing the strategies used in translating Le Memorie Istoriche della Gran Cupola Vaticana (the Historical Memories of the great Dome of the Vatican Temple) of Giovanni Poleni, from the eighteenth century Italian Language into modern English. The attention of my thesis was on the first part of the text which was translated in a literary mode according to Chesterman's theory. Thus, functionality of the target text and the loyalty towards the source text, two important considerations taken in the translated text, are employed as an empirical data to explain to which extent the text adapts to the reader of contemporary English language maintaining the ideas and the style of the source text. Therefore, the present study analyzes the extratextual and intratextual factors which have determined the translation. The intratextual factors serve to exert strategies according to Christiane Nord's translation oriented text analysis, which underlines the importance of the communicative function as prior to the semantic and syntactic features; and at the same time refers to Hans Vermeer's Skopos theory according to which the aim or skopos determines the product, which is the translation. The extratextual analysis contextualizes the sender and the text in a historical and cultural background; whereas the intratextual factors analyze the subject matter, the form, the lexical features and the syntactic structures of the ST.