Culturemes and plurilingual worlds in a splendid recent historical novel: Il sorriso di Caterina, madre di Leonardo by Carlo Vecce

The paper suggests some Romanian solutions in translating the 15th-century realia belonging to the flourishing world of navigation, sea trade, Florentine and Venetian banking and manufacturing and so many other specific terminologies that the Neapolitan Professor Carlo Vecce offers us while reconstructing the biography of Caterina, the mysterious woman who gave birth to the genius of the Renaissance. (Surâsul Caterinei, mama lui Leonardo da Vinci, traducere de Oana Sălișteanu, Humanitas Fiction, 2024).