Introduction to an edited volume on the interlingual translation of figurative language. The 30 chapters of the volume were first presented at an international conference held at the University of Bologna in December 2012 and have been selected through a double peer-reviewed process. Written in either English or Italian, the different contributions of this volume investigate the topic from a wide range of approaches and through several possible language pairs. Chapters by: Umberto Eco, Gerard Steen, Zoltan Kovecses, Christina Schaffner, Patricia Godbout, Stefano Arduini, Franco Nasi and several others. Book editors: Donna R. Miller & Enrico Monti