La Lingua della Tirannia

Discover The Language of Tyranny: a revolutionary doctoral work that reveals how religious power is constructed and perpetuated through linguistic and institutional manipulation. A unique journey through philology, history, and power, grounded in academic research without precedent in the Italian landscape.

Since my original research was conducted in English, a friend asked me to produce a Serbian version for him. This brought me up against the same obstacles that scholars and scribes have faced for millennia: translation is never a simple transfer of words, but a direct encounter with cultural barriers that are sometimes impenetrable. The only advantage I could draw upon was my own viewpoint—the closest possible to the original truth—while letting the devil hide in the details.

Faced with these difficulties, I decided to adopt a new approach: starting from the sources in my possession, I sought out parallel scholars and researchers in the language into which I intended to translate,