Storia della letteratura italiana (1959) is a widely known historical survey of Italian literature, and its author, Attilio Momigliano, an equally well-known scholar in this field and the writer of numerous studies and textbooks. The Slovene translation was produced by Bogomil Fatur, a minor Slovene poet and a ‘hyperprolific’ translator. This study of his translation forms part of a larger descriptive project that aims to (1) find out which principles underlie translations from Italian into Slovene of texts about literary history; and (2) to define potentially problematic areas in this field.