Even a squiggle isn’t immune to the corruption inherent in transliteration.  Here's our pictorial study of how Laurence Sterne's elegant and eloquent squiggle (d)evolved through various editions of Tristram Shandy.  We call it "Lost in Transliteration."

"[There's] only a very fine line between the ability to concentrate intelligently on an objective and an unhealthy obsession." —Amanda Quick, The Perfect Poison (2009)

"There's a fine line between networking and not working." —June Conley

Not the more hostile Italian? Translator / Traitor?

Good point!  By the way, I agree with Umberto Eco, who called translation "admirable treason."