Introduction

Translating and distributing Italian religious literature in the ecclesiastical province of Cambrai (late 16th, early 17th century)

“…In this case he would be on a par with some French translators for whom translating was becoming a profession in its own right. 34 Yet, as the case of Antoine Gazet illustrates, printers were not the only ones who took the initiative to order new translations. Gazet was a physician from Airesur-la-Lys, a small town close to Saint-Omer, but was encouraged to spend his spare time translating by his elder brother Guillaume (1554-1612), an Arras priest known as a prolific author and translator himself.…”