The translation of the guide of giovanni plana’s mechanical calendar: a case of tourist communication in the chapel of merchants, traders and bankers.

The main purpose of this thesis is to provide a translation into English of the guide of Giovanni A. A. Plana‟s Universal Mechanical Calendar (housed in the Chapel of Merchants, Traders and Bankers in Turin) and a new version of the leaflet, and its translation, about the Chapel in which the Calendar is housed. In order to accomplish this purpose several questions will be posed on the nature of the text, on the role of churches in tourism and on the communication strategies needed to communicate efficiently in this context. A comparison between churches and museums will be made in order to determine whether the communication strategies designed for museum texts can be used to rewrite the leaflet and to improve the translation of the guide. Some of the main problems of translation in the tourism field will be addressed. Moreover, the translation into a language that is not the mother tongue of the translator and the role of English as a lingua franca will be discussed.