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To: gao seng who wrote (209639)	12/13/2001 2:18:12 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

And then there's the Italian translation! A further and perhaps equal mystery is the fact that since 1797 the Barlow translation has been trustfully and universally accepted as the just equivalent of the Arabic. Its text was not only formally proclaimed as such but has been continuously printed and reprinted as such . . . . The Italian translation of the Arabic text . . . presents its own linguistic difficulties . . . it is none the less in essence a reasonable translation of the Arabic. Indeed, allowing for the crudeness of the original Arabic and the changes which always result from a retranslation, it may be said . . . that the Barlow translation . . . was extremely erroneousÍ; but nothing indicating that the Italian translation was even consulted has been found, and it does not appear that it was ever before 1930 put into Englishî (p. 384).