[Speech by Mussolini, 9 May 1936] - 1936
Beniti Mussolini de instaurando Italorum imperio oratio is Pighi’s Latin translation of the speech held by Mussolini on 9 May 1936 to announce the conquest of Ethiopia and the establishment of the Italian empire in Oriental Africa. In the Latin foreword, Pighi explains his stylistic guidelines (drawing from Cicero and the language of laws and inscriptions). He also reveals one of the aims of his translation, i.e. to read it with his students (ut cum discipulis legerem). Luggin (2020) analyses Pighi’s translation and compares it to other Latin translations of the same speech, namely those of Nicola Festa and Luciano Miori.
Beniti
Mussolini de instaurando Italorum imperio oratio was
first published in the journal Aevum (Pighi 1936a) and then as
a separate booklet (Pighi 1936b).
Bibliography
Latin
texts
Mussolini, Benito. 1936a. Beniti
Mussolini de instaurando Italorum imperio oratio. Translated by Giovanni
Battista Pighi. Milano: Vita e Pensiero.
———. 1936b. ‘Beniti Mussolini de instaurando
Italorum imperio oratio’. Translated by Giovanni Battista Pighi. Aevum:
Rassegna di scienze storiche linguistiche e filologiche 10 (4):
449–52.
Secondary
sources
Luggin, Johanna. 2020. ‘Imperium iam
tandem Italiae restitutum est. Lateinische Übersetzungen der Reden
Mussolinis’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of
Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio
Sanzotta, 105–42. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven
University Press.
Nicolò Bettegazzi