An approach to the nineteenth century interest about wine growing: considerations about the translation into French of Simón Clemente y Rubio’s Ensayo sobre las variedades de la vid común que vegetan en Andalucía in France

Abstract

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Spanish science has been characterized as a dependent science of the researches and scientific discoveries in Europe, especially those proceeding from France, one of the most prominent countries in the continent at the cultural and scientific level. In this context, the needs to have access to these discoveries and researches provoked an augmentation of the translation in Spain. Nevertheless, some treatises originally written in Spanish acquired relevance and prestige in Europe, among which it is found Simón de Rojas Clemente y Rubio’s Ensayo sobre las variedades de la vid común que vegetan en Andalucía. This paper focuses the reception and the translation of this book in France, having into account the interest of enology as an emergent science during the nineteenth century.