«Apuntaciones sacadas de los “Idilios” de Gessner». Study and edition of an unpublished translation by Cándido María Trigueros

Abstract

This paper presents a study and edition of Apuntaciones sacadas de los Idilios de Gessner, a manuscript by Cándido María Trigueros kept today by the Spanish National Library. The manuscript introduces the first ever published translation of the Swiss author’s idylls to Spanish. Developed through the French edition made by Michael Huber in 1762, this translation reveals the avant-garde interest shown by the academic in the German pastoral poetry that would later gain great success during the final decades of the 18th century. As such, this paper contributes to the Toledan’s corpus and adds the manuscript to the broad list of works translated and imitated by the philosopher-poet.