Italienisch: ciarlatano da piazzaEnglisch translation: mountebank 
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| Glossareintrag (aus Frage unten abgeleitet) | | Italienisch Begriff oder Satz: | ciarlatano da piazza | | Englisch Übersetzung: | mountebank | | Eingetragen von: | Pauley |
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Geschichte | | Italienisch Begriff oder Satz: ciarlatano da piazza | ...praticata dagli empirici o dai ciarlatani da piazza...
Contesto: si parla della pratica dell'odontoiatria nel XVI secolo.
(street-)fair charlatan? (street-)fair quack?
Ho pensato alle due soluzioni elencate, ma forse esiste un'altra espressione idiomatica che non conosco o qualche altra soluzione che renda meglio il concetto.
Grazie in anticipo per gli eventuali suggerimenti/commenti.
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| | | mountebank | Erklärung:
www.answers.com/topic/mountebank
n.
A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
A flamboyant charlatan.
http://dictionary.die.net/mountebank
Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco;
montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount,
and 4th Bank.]
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and
vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable
remedies; a quack doctor.
Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
physician. --Whitlock.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-12-30 08:03:49 GMT)
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you've also got your famous "snake oil peddler". |
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 Pauley
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| Hinweis von Fragesteller an den AntwortendenGrazie infinite! I wouldn't have come up with this in a million years!
Also many thanks to Rachel for the exhaustive reference. Buon anno!
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| quack
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I agree with you on quack. The problem is translating 'da piazza', which results in a somewhat unnatural-sounding (street-)fair. I would sidestep the issue by just using quack without any qualification - it's well known that 16th-century quacks worked in the street. If you really feel it needs specifying, you could add a relative phrase, such as 'who set up stalls in the street'. Hope that helps
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Fragesteller: Molte grazie Simon, ho molto apprezzato! Buon anno!
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| mountebank
Erklärung:
www.answers.com/topic/mountebank
n.
A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
A flamboyant charlatan.
http://dictionary.die.net/mountebank
Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco;
montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount,
and 4th Bank.]
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and
vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable
remedies; a quack doctor.
Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
physician. --Whitlock.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2007-12-30 08:03:49 GMT)
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you've also got your famous "snake oil peddler".
| Pauley
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| Hinweis von Fragesteller an den AntwortendenGrazie infinite! I wouldn't have come up with this in a million years!
Also many thanks to Rachel for the exhaustive reference. Buon anno! |
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