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Copyright (c) 2025 Redazione http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Il lessico italoromanzo del diritto commerciale in prospettiva onomasiologica. Materiali preparatori allo «Historical Lexicon of Commercial Law. Italian, Latin, German»
The ERC-2020-CoG project MICOLL-Migrating Commercial Law and Language. Rethinking Lex Mercatoria (11th-17th Century) aims to analyse the terminology of European commercial law used during the medieval and early modern periods through the development of an IT tool called Historical Lexicon of Commercial Law. Italian, Latin, German (HLCL). This contribution presents the main features of the resource and provides an onomasiological glossary of commercial law terminology used in the Italo-Romance vernaculars between the 11th and 16th centuries.
Copyright (c) 2025 Davide Basaldella http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Recensione a «Contrainte créatice. La fortune littéraire de la sextine dans le temps et dans l’espace», Textes réunis par Luca Barbieri et Marion Uhlig avec la collaboration de David Moos et Pauline Quarroz, Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2023 («Quaderni di Stilistica e metrica italiana», 12), xv + 299 pp.
Copyright (c) 2025 Stefano Resconi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Recensione a «Le Roman de Troie en prose. Version du manuscrit Royal 20.D.I de la British Library de Londres (Prose 5)», éditée par Luca Barbieri, Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2023, XXII + 997 pp.
Copyright (c) 2025 Luca Di Sabatino http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Un semisconosciuto postillato castigliano delle Prose di Bembo
After analyzing a series of marginalia, some of them unpublished, of the princeps of Bembo’s Prose and its contemporary counterfeit edition, the essay deals with a copy preserved at the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla in Madrid (BH.FLL.10531). This copy has more than 700 reading notes, mostly in Castilian, written in Salamanca by a scholar by January 1, 1537. Therefore, it is a document of exceptional value for the study of the Spanish Renaissance in its literary and linguistic aspects. For this reason, its marginal notes have been completely transcribed, along with the passage of the Prose each of them refers to.
Copyright (c) 2025 Matteo Milani, Carlo Pulsoni, Luigi Giuliani http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Copyright (c) 2025 Giulio Cura Curà http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
«Sententie bellissime delli libri di Seneca». Un florilegio (pseudo)senecano nella Firenze tra Tre e Quattrocento
The paper analyzes the fortunes of Seneca’s traditions per excerpta in Florence between the late 14th and early 15th centuries. In particular, it focuses on the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 2618 (Florilegio Riccardiano), which contains an extensive florilegium of excerpts and proverbs from Senecan (or pseudo-Senecan works). Its contents are notable for the presence of a vernacular translation (volgarizzamento) per excerpta of the De clementia. It finds precise parallels in a second (and different) excerpted version, transmitted by the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 1691. The final section focuses instead on a manuscript (also composed of Senecan works) of great importance in 15th-century Florence (Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II.III.326), in which we have a series of unique translations of a wide constellation of Senecan texts (such as the De paupertate).
Copyright (c) 2025 Giulio Vaccaro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
«Molti e varii ragionamenti». L' "ellisse narrativa" di Nastagio degli Onesti («Decameron» V 8)
The essay aims to study the Boccaccian novella of Nastagio degli Onesti (Decameron V 8), especially examining the value of the sources, the structure of the story, the relationship between the ideology of the author and that of his time, the overall meaning of the text and the issue of parody. In addition, the author presents a new edition of the text.
Copyright (c) 2025 Alfonso D'Agostino http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Watriquet de Couvin: dal trattato alla scuola, dal «clerc» al «maître»
This study proposes a new critical edition of the Dit de l’escole d’amours by Watriquet de Couvin, exploring its role within the medieval didactic tradition. This text diverges from the traités d’amour in verse of the late 13th century, aiming at building a lyric-argumentative text with an edifying purpose. Through intertextual dialogue with Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose, Watriquet shapes a discourse on love as a vehicle for ethical and moral transmission.
Copyright (c) 2025 Valeria Russo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
«Des tresces» e «Berenger au lonc cul»: due fonti per la novella VII 8 del «Decameron»?
This study aims at finding the sources that inspired tale VII, 8 of the Decameron, that is to say two fabliaux by Garin: Des tresces and Berengier au lonc cul. The main focus of this paper is to understand how and why Boccaccio rewrote and adapted the two Old French short stories to his own poetics and audience. As a matter of fact, Des tresces was employed as the narrative core of Boccaccio’s tale, whereas Berengier au lonc cul provided the fundamental theme that was added to the main theme of Day VII.
Copyright (c) 2025 Laura Bonanno http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Dal «Comentum» al «Commento». Il volgarizzamento delle chiose petrine all’«Inferno» tràdito dal ms. Ashburnham App. Dantesca 2
The essay is based on the study of the only integral vulgarization known today of the first draft of Pietro Alighieri’s Comentum, conveyed by the ms. Ashburnham Appendice Dantesca 2 of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence. In particular, the analysis focuses on the commentary of the Inferno, whose relationship with the Latin source is investigated for the first time. Starting from a selection of glosses considered exemplary, an attempt is made to identify in which branch of the Latin tradition the source of the codex lies. Then, the main types of changes made on the text and perhaps mediated by the model are presented. In conclusion, a possible contamination of the vulgarization through the use of the two later drafts is evaluated.
Copyright (c) 2024 Bruna Lorenzin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Per un’edizione critica del «Dit de l’unicorne et du serpent»
The aim of this essay is to (re)bring to light a short allegorical tale that, like most short texts of an unidentified nature, has been included in the vast and heterogeneous 'genre' of the dit. Although not a well-known work to date, the (Dit) de l'unicorne et du serpent presents itself as an interesting narrative that lends itself to both literary and specifically ecdotal reflections. The text that has come down to us is the result of a re-elaboration of an ancient legend that, proposing the topos of the tree of life, has been transposed in various ways in the different types of texts in which it appears, produced at different historical moments and in different geographical areas. Transmitted by no less than 18 codices, the anonymous tale in scripta piccarda presents an unstable mise en écrit, characterised by a rich variety of lectio.
Copyright (c) 2024 Sabrina Galano http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Copyright (c) 2024 La Redazione http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Paremiologia e retorica epistolare: il proverbio nel «Salut d’amor» provenzale e francese
The perusal of the texts that make up the corpus of troubadour love letters or salutz d’amor reconstructed to date documents how the use of proverbs and sententious expressions is firmly established in the tradition of the genre, although it has remained a little or not at all studied aspect until now. The paper proposes a preliminary investigation into the use of communis sententia according to the rules of the ars dictaminis produced between the 12th and 13th centuries, the erudite background of the Provençal genre (§ 1), with particular attention to the manuals and models of love epistolography (§ 1.1); it then provides a structured census of proverbs and sententiae in Occitan saluts (§ 4), analysing their formal characteristics, rhetorical connotation, and themes, between popular register and courtly source (§§ 2, 2.1, 2.2). The investigation is then extended to the corpus of French saluts (§ 3), in which the epistolographic model seems to disarticulate and with it also structures, thematic-rhetorical invariants and stylistic features typical of the salut, which appear less binding, in favour of a widespread adaptation to the narrative model, prevailing over the epistolary one. The evident reduction in the number of sententious and proverbial expressions in the French tradition of the salut can therefore be explained as an effect of the weakening of the stylistic-rhetorical markers of the epistle.
Copyright (c) 2024 Speranza Cerullo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Recensione a Dafnifilo, «Canzoniere», a c. di Benedetta Aldinucci, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2023, XXXVI + 96 pp. + 2 tavv. («Temi e Testi», 234)
Copyright (c) 2025 Jacopo Tinti http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Ancora sulla dialettica testo-testimone: il «Libro di sentenze», e i detti dei filosofi, nel manoscritto Siena BC I VI 5 (= S2)
On the one hand, the paper investigates the contents of a vast and garbled section of the multi-text MS Siena BC I VI 5. On the other hand, it focuses on one of the texts in that section, the Libro di sentenze, by way of comparing it with the rest of the manuscript tradition, consisting of a total of five witnesses. Given the variability of the presence of the witnesses for each paragraph, even the operation of approaching the archetype which is possible through textual criticism leads to a fragmented reconstruction that varies throughout the text.
Copyright (c) 2024 Paolo Divizia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Varianti testuali di «Pescatore»: da Marco Negri a Pierangelo Bertoli (e oltre)
The article proposes the examination of the textual variants of Pescatore, a musical piece composed in 1980 by Marco Negri in collaboration with Pierangelo Bertoli and brought to success by Pierangelo Bertoli himself in a duet with Fiorella Man-noia, from its genesis to the rewritings and revivals of the subsequent decades.
Copyright (c) 2024 Matteo Milani http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
«Lo ferm voler» e il ritmo del décasyllabe
The contribution traces the history of the musical editions of Lo ferm voler by Arnaut Daniel (pc 29.14) and, with specific reference to the décasyllabe, proposes an essential theory of rhythm, reconsiders the hypothesis on the origin of the verse and offers a model of rhythmic reconstruction.
Copyright (c) 2024 Davide Daolmi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
The paper adds a new witness to the tradition of two previously publisheed frottole from the fourteenth century. After providing a description of the manuscript, it proceeds to integrate the witness within the already examined tradition in order to update the stemma codicum and the critical apparatus.
Copyright (c) 2025 Raffaele Cesaro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
«Liber septem philosophorum». Versione latina L del «Libro dei Sette Savî»
The essay publishes a critical edition of the Latin L version of the Book of the Seven Sages, belonging to the ancient Italian branch of the legend, together with the versions signed C (northern) and M (Venetian). The edition is based on the three known manuscripts (a Londoner, a Viennese and a Wrocław codex), while the previous text (Mussafia 1867) limited itself to a critical transcription of the Vienna text.
Copyright (c) 2024 Alfonso D'Agostino http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
In margine al «Lazarillo de Tormes»: la formazione dell’antieroe
The contribution aims to highlight some aspects of Lazarillo de Tormes: the weight of the previous literary elements, Spanish and foreign; the parodic reference to some principles by Francesco Guicciardini; the circular structure of the story.
Copyright (c) 2024 Giulio Cura Curà http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Recensione a Anna Gabriella Chisena, «Le “prime” stelle di Dante: astronomia e astrologia fra "Vita Nova" e "Convivio"», Ravenna, Longo, 2024, 312 pp.
Copyright (c) 2025 Donato Pirovano http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Il progetto European Ars Nova e i testi poetici in volgare. Caratteristiche della tradizione e soluzioni editoriali
The European Ars Nova project aims to produce a critical edition of just over 1000 Italian, French, and Latin texts set to music, dating between the 14th and 15th centuries. In the first part, the article analyzes the characteristics of the tradition of this repertoire, marked by witnesses with and without musical settings and by a distinctive relationship between the authorship of the composer and that of the author of the text. In the second part, the general editorial criteria adopted in the project are illustrated.
Copyright (c) 2024 Davide Checchi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Recensione a Gianni Pittiglio, «La "Commedia" dei dettagli. “Storie seconde” e deroghe iconografiche del poema dantesco tra XIV e XV secolo», Roma, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2023, X + 468 pp.
Book review: Gianni Pittiglio, La «Commedia» dei dettagli. “Storie seconde” e deroghe iconografiche del poema dantesco tra XIV e XV secolo, Roma, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2023, X + 468 pp.
Copyright (c) 2024 Donato Pirovano http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Annotazioni sul «Buef d’Aigremont» (prologo del «Renaut de Montauban») nel ms. Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, fr. Z. 16 (= 229)
Abstract: The manuscript V16 (Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, fr. Z 16) contains a Franco-Italian version of Renaut de Montauban that Ferdinand Castets, Karl Triebel, Karl Kaiser, Ernst Geipel, and Jacques Thomas have considered innovative compared to the other twelve versions in verse, particularly regarding the prologue called Buef d’Aigremont. To verify this claimed innovation, the versions of ms. L edited by Castets (1909) and ms. D published by Thomas (1989) are systematically compared with the text of V16. From this analysis, which intersects both the synopsis of the laisses and the contents, there would be a significant reassessment of the originality of V16. However, this reevaluation does not affect the hope of Günter Holtus and Peter Wunderli that the only version of Renaut de Montauban produced in Italy might finally see the light in a critical edition. Keywords: Renaut de Montauban, Franco-Italian epics, prologue, macrovariance.
Copyright (c) 2024 Antonella Negri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Recensione a Paola Nasti, «I morsi della carità. Dante e la "Bibbia"», Ravenna, Giorgio Pozzi Editore, 2024, 408 pp.
Book review: Paola Nasti, I morsi della carità. Dante e la «Bibbia», Ravenna, Giorgio Pozzi Editore, 2024, 408 pp.
Diorama lessicale d’un volgarizzatore dugentesco: il caso dei «Fiori di filosafi»
The essay studies, through a series of examples, the lexicon of the Fiori e vita di filosafi e d’altri savi e d’imperadori, a Florentine translation from the early 1270s of some passages from the Flores historiarum by Adam of Clermont, compendium of the Speculum historiale by Vincent of Beauvais. On the one hand, the way of translating is examined, both from a stylistic point of view and in relation to the implicit communal ideology of the translator; on the other hand, a series of terms are proposed that are relevant for semantic aspects or because the Fiori di filosafi represent the first attestation in the history of the Italian language.
Gnomic and paremiac fragments of the ''senno del ditto Dante'' in the Tuscan collections of short stories of the 14th-15th centuries
The enduring influence of Dante and his literary oeuvre is palpable not only within the pinnacle of Italian literature’s most esteemed and refined genres but also within ostensibly lesser-regarded forms, such as short stories. This essay endeavors to explore the manifestation of Dante’s presence among Tuscan short story authors spanning the 14th to 15th centuries. Special emphasis will be placed on the gnomic and paremiac use of quotations derived from the Alighieri’s works.
Copyright (c) 2024 Nicola Esposito http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0