id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 8g84mk63v9c Adam Foley Homer's Winged Words and Humanist Latinity: The Task of Translating Homer in the Italian Renaissance 1904 .txt text/plain 326 11 49 In addition to translation practice, humanists also began to develop increasingly more sophisticated ways of thinking about the task of the translator and thus did much to advance the field of translation theory. Many humanists of the day and scholars thereafter held Homeric translations up to these standards and judged them a failure. cache/8g84mk63v9c.txt txt/8g84mk63v9c.txt