The act of translating. The comprehensive understanding. A translation of medieval texts. The translation by a novel of chivalry: Curial e Guelfa. Fundamental themes approached: Love, Death, Sublime. Translating is a feeling, feeling to explain.

The purpose is to present our proposal of translation of the humanist novel of chivalry from the fifteenth century Curial e Güelfa and discuss some of our crossroads, choices, and attempts to bring to the reader’s mind the culture of the past and keep it alive in his thoughts.

The text deals with imaginative hermeneutics as a method for the treatment of historical documents and does a distinction between historical past and practical past.