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Riverbero semantico e polisemia: qualche idea intorno a una visione semplice
ITALIANO: Partendo da interrogativi nati dal laboratorio di medievista, si considera di superare la spaccatura demarcativa tra significante e significato in una visione del campo semantico come campo ontologico. La criticità del tradurre alcune fonti medievali scritte in latino pone più ampiamente il problema del passaggio da un mondo aperto alla polisemia a quello attuale. Perciò, intendendo la polisemia come realtà e non come surplus espressivo, si sceglie di abbandonare la traduzione univoca per tentare altre vie che permettano di cogliere gli echi di una polisemia sostanziale: essi formano ciò che si prospetta
come riverbero semantico. Da qui una prova sperimentale di traduzioni polisemiche, con esempi da passi medievali tratti da un racconto 'visionario' di Pietro il Venerabile e da scritti di san Colombano. / ENGLISH: Starting from researches in the field of medieval history, this essay reflects upon the need to step beyond the great divide between signifier and signified. This goal is reached by
considering the semantic field as an ontologic field. The difficulties in translating medieval texts written in latin challenge the historian to face the problem of the passage
from a medieval world open to polisemy to present day world.This polisemy is here considered non simply as a mere surplus of expression, but as a reality of perception; therefore, this paper suggests to abandon the translation of a word for another and to take the risk of find different ways of representing the polisemy of medieval texts introducing the concept of semantic reverberation and the experiment of polisemic translations of some passage from medieval sources by Peter the Venerable and St. Columban
"Non c’è Dio": semantica di un misero
Moving towards the medieval intelligence of imagines one meets the polysemic character of in-sipiens, framed in the initial letter of Psalm 52 between XIII and XV centuries and in the tarots card the Fool. This fool is ‘senseless’ at various levels and experiences a semantic and narrative density, both textual and iconographic. All those nuances of meaning are not alien at all to the observer interacting with this figura, really and deeply a miser: a real presence resuming ad unumthe dramatic reality of denying the human accomplishment according to the harmony given by God to the created world