Omar Khayyám. Una strada verso l’unità dell ‘essere e del sentire. Dario Chioli. Prima edizione: 5/1/2001; Ultimo aggiornamento: 7/2/2022
Discussion and survey of Italian translations and translators of the Rubáiyat. Contains extensive bibliographic details.
Balkan Rubaiyat. The post-Ottoman polysystem between East and West. R. Mueller.
Paper, online available at Academia.edu, June 2014.
In the Balkans, two important national thinkers produced their own Rubaiyat translations. In 1920, Safvet-Beg Bašağić (1870-1934), Oriental scholar and father of Muslim nationalism in Bosnia, published the first translation of the acclaimed Rubaiyat in a South Slavic language. In 1926, Theofan Stylian Noli (1882-1965), ordained Orthodox priest, national intellectual and once-Prime Minister of Albania, published the first Albanian-language version of the Rubaiyat. What are we to make of the temporal and geographical convergence of these individuals and their text, their parallel projects of making a behemoth of modern world literature—itself situated in an unstable place between East and West—available to audiences in a newly post-Ottoman sphere?
Khayyam, Omar vii. Translations into Italian. Casari, Mario.
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online, May 2014.
The reception of Khayyam’s poetic work in Italy, as in the rest of Europe, was the result of the translation and rewriting of the English poet Edward FitzGerald (d. 1883) in the years 1859-79. In Italy the more scholarly approach to Khayyam’s work by a few dedicated Iranists proceeded at a fitful pace over many decades.
Les lectures de Khayyâm en France. Sarah Mirdâmâdi.
La Revue de Tehran (2010) 59 (Octobre)
Les célèbres Robâiyât de Khayyâm ont fait l’objet d’un très grand nombre de traductions en différentes langues occidentales. Si la première et la plus fameuse fut la traduction anglaise de Fitzgerald, à partir de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, plusieurs traductions françaises des Quatrains ne tardèrent pas à être publiées. Les fameux poèmes suscitèrent de nombreux débats concernant la personnalité de leur auteur : Khayyâm était-il un hédoniste ou même un ivrogne aux penchants nihilistes avide de profiter des jouissances de l’instant présent ?
Khayyam, Omar ix. Illustrations of English translations of the Rubaiyat. W.H. Martin, S. Mason.
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online, July 2009
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam contain some of the best-known verses in the world. The book is also one of the most frequently and widely illustrated of all literary works. The stimulus to illustrate Khayyam’s Rubaiyat came initially from outside Persia, in response to translations in the West.
Khayyam, Omar x. Musical works based on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. W.H. Martin, S. Mason.
Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, July 15 2009
The enduring popularity of the verses in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is reflected in the large number of musical works they have inspired. Not all the works were small-scale pieces. One of the best-known large-scale compositions is Sir Granville Bantock’s (1868-1946) ‘Omar Khayyam’ (1908-10) for soloists, chorus and orchestra. It is a three-part work, setting all the 101 quatrains from FitzGerald’s fifth edition.
Omar Khayyam en zijn Rubaiyat (bij wijze van inventaris). Willy Spillebeen.
Verslagen en mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde (2007), p. 191-209.