Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

Urgenza della verità

English translation:

The quest for truth

Added to glossary by Anthony Green
Jun 23, 2010 07:59
13 yrs ago
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Italian term

Urgenza della verità

Italian to English Art/Literary Religion critique of Christian painter
This is the first phrase in a critique of the paintings of the Leccese painter Giuseppe Afrune. Unfortunately, there is no syntactic context.
Not being a Christian, but very spiritually minded, this is a rather challenging text for me!

I notice that "Urgenza della verità" gets 95,000 hits while the lieral translation "Urgency of truth" get just one!!!
What does this phrase actually mean in Italian and is there in fact an equivalent phrase in English?

ORIGINAL: "Gesù. ‘Il tuo volto, Signore, io cerco’
Urgenza della verità. Calore di un’accoglienza misteriosa, irripetibile, universalmente costituita, storicamente determinata, riconoscibile nell’unicità della persona del Figlio dell’Uomo.

TRANSLATION FIRST DRAFT
Jesus. ‘It is your face, Lord, I am looking for’

The urgency of truth. That warmth we feel, arising from a mysterious, unique, universal welcome, one that is historically determined, that we recognise exclusively in the person of the Son of Man.

Incidentally, I'd also be interested if you have any suggestions or comments on how I could improve the first draft of the translation

Proposed translations

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The desire for truth

I don't think "urgency" works too well in English. It sounds kinda traumatic - which is not the idea !
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : Or longing, or yearning.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to everyone for helping me to delve deeper into the question. In the end I used "the quest for truth", which is certainly not a literal translation, but hopefully will be closest to the overall meaning of the text."
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need of truth

What about this?

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In Italian "urgenza" also means "necessity, need".
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urgency for truth

http://www.google.it/search?q="urgency for truth"&hl=it&prmd...

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Walking with Death’s cloud hovering over me.
Raw.
No time for lies
Urgency for truth and meaning.

http://www.consciousleaving.com/2006/11/index.html

In time of crisis we see most clearly the need and the urgency for truth.
http://www.themindweb.com/downloads/BookOfTruth.pdf
Peer comment(s):

agree Constantinos Faridis (X)
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grazie
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exigence of truth/ priority of truth

your translation is acceptable. this is just another thought...

With a growing sense of urgency, we are working to bring the truth of the Catholic Church to as many souls as possible - as soon as possible.
http://www.keepthefaith.org/about.htm

"exigence of truth"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="exigence of truth"&aq=...

"priority of truth"
http://www.newadvent.org/utility/search.htm?safe=active&cx=0...
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urgency of the Truth

the earnest, pressing nature of the Good News that demands the attention of mankind, perhaps. HTH.

Hi Anthony, BTW, searching for the respective entire phrases on Google via IE gives me 13 results for the original phrase and 9 for this translation, so I'm not sure where your 95000 came from...
Note from asker:
How fascinating! Sometimes I superficially look at the number of hits and base my decisions on that: I just redid the search in Google using Chrome and got "About 99,600 results (0.12 seconds)". But in fact there were only two pages of results...
Peer comment(s):

agree P.L.F. Persio : excellent explanation (I love a bit of alliteration)
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eagerness for truth

I think it may work.
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