tradittore

Updated: May 1, 2025

The Italian saying, "traduttore, tradittore," is the expression of a fact too seldom recognized, especially by those whose business it is to interpret, so to speak, one people to another.

Stanley Shaw - William of Germany

Provincialisms abound, hence the history of the author and the environment in which he was reared should be taken into account, for sometimes there are phrases that are unintelligible without a knowledge of the writer's early surroundings. Translations as a rule should be consulted only with allowance, for to the best of them the Italian saying "Traduttore, tradittore" is applicable.

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier - Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico; I. Bibliographic Introduction: Papers of the School of American Archaeology, No. 13