Maria Antonietta Ferro

LEGAL AND LITERARY TRANSLATIONS

A world of words

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I TURNED MY PASSION INTO MY PROFESSION

“Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture”.
Anthony Burgess

About me
I am an Italian native speaking “official translator” for English, Spanish, French and German. Court Certified since 1995 (Court of Lucca, under no. 399).

My skills
Legal translation is my forte, but I am also specializing in commercial, advertising and marketing translations. In 2006 I obtained the diploma of Professional Master in literary translation and text editing at Siena University.
Services I offer
Translations and Court certified (sworn) translations. My customers are law firms, notaries, companies, and private citizens. Literary translation for Publishers.

Publications
Le asseverazioni in Italia, Filodiritto Editore, Bologna.

Vademecum for sworn translators

A guideline for translators willing to enrol in the Board of Court Experts in Italy.

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Webinar The sworn translator

How the Vademecum can be implemented in the practice.

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My blog

 

“Legal translation and its neighbourhood”
Technical news, digressions and fun facts: the everyday life of a translator.

 

“My literary blog Holanuevomondo”
A window on the literature of Dominican Republic.

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TESTIMONIALS

 

What does it mean to translate? The first and reassuring answer should be: to say the same thing in another language. Except that, in the first place we experience numerous problems in establishing what “to say the same thing” truly means, and we do not know it exactly because of all those operations that we call paraphrases, definition, explanation, or rephrasing, not to mention the alleged synonymic substitution.
In the second place, we experience numerous problems because we do not know what the “thing” is when we are faced with a text requiring translation. Finally, in some circumstances, one wonder even what “to say” means.

Umberto Eco