Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. The Misfortune of a Translation 3
5. 2. The Material Text: Three States, One Edition, a History Book 24
6. 3. “What Everybody Wishes for and Keeps Silent”: Analysis of the Context Through the Paratext 43
7. 4. “And He Translated the Alcorano in the Vulgar Tongue”: Giovanni Battista Castrodardo, Translator of the Alcorano di Macometto 71
8. 5. The Iberian and Italian Mi‘rāǧ by Giovanni Battista Castrodardo: An Unknown Dante Scholar and Muhammad’s Ascension into Heaven 93
9. 6. The Religion of the Italians, or Purgatory and the Qur’an: A Belief and a Place Between Robert of Ketton and Roberto Bellarmino 115
10. 7. Scribendae Historiae Gratia: The Oration of Sergius the Monk to the Prophet Muhammad 136
11. 8. Reading and Rewriting the Alcorano di Macometto: Francesco Sansovino Between the Historie Universali and the Selve 159
12. 9. A Cheese Maker from Lucca and a Miller from Friuli 169
13. 10. The Fortune of the Alcorano di Macometto and a Conclusion 185
14. Appendix 201
15. Notes 209
16. Bibliography 237
17. Index of Names 287
18. Acknowledgments 295