L’HOMBRE CORDIAL, PRODUCTO AMERICANO DI RUY RIBEIRO COUTO NELLA MEDIAZIONE TRADUTTIVA DI ALFONSO REYES

Abstract One of the most significant political archetypes of Latin American history, the homem cordial (cordial man) theorized by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda in Raízes do Brasil (1936) and for a long time considered politically incorrect in his own country, arrived in Italy thanks to Cesare Rivelli’s translation published by the Bocca Brothers in 1954. But there would be, instead, in the Italian context very few signs of interest in the other homem cordial, the one theorized a few years earlier in a short article written by the Brazilian Ruy Ribeiro Couto, and transmitted internationally by ...