Please translate this passage from Don Quijote
I'm reading Don Quijote in spanish and there's a passage from a book by Feliciano de Silva that I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding.
"La razón de la sinrazón que a mi razón se hace, de tal manera mi razón enflaquece, que con razón me quejo de la vuestra fermosura... los altos cielos que de vuestra divinidad divinamente con las estrellas os fortifican, y os hacen merecedora del merecimiento que merece la vuestra grandeza."
help would be much appreciated!
3 Answers
Hi! I'm sorry I'm reading this soooo late. The idea was to make the passage confusing and nonsense to mock the complicated and unnecessary rhetoric that was used by writers at that time. So this is a sort of 'poetic expression' but so weird and absurd that turns out to be really funny. Remember Don Quijote came up to mock the chivalry novels that were so popular then, so don't burn all your neurons trying to get something deep from this extract.
Did you just plug this into the translator? I can do that myself, I was kind of looking for an actual translation from someone who knows the language and can explain it in plain english.
This passage means:
The reason of the injustice that my reason is done, of such a way that my reason (blank) that with right i am complaining about (blank),... the high skies that of your divinity divinely with the stars they fortify, and make them worthy of the meritocracy that deserves our greatness."
For the two blanks i think u spelled the words wrong, so just double check them and translate them separately and just fill them in, that is the best i can do, hope it helps.
