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Laura Ingallinella
I work on late medieval and Renaissance Italy. My primary interests lie in transregional processes of identity-making via literacy, manuscripts, and translation. Right now, I am working on two books: "The Fraudulent Muse: Gender and Literary Forgery in Renaissance Italy" and "Nations of the Book: Transcultural Textualities in Early Renaissance Italy." More recently, I have also started working on intersectional formations of gender and race in Renaissance Italian theater, from tragedia regolare to commedia dell'arte.
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Since 2013, the LAI (Legenda Aurea in Italiano,) project is occupying a team of scholars who aim to prepare a critical edition of the most important Old Italian translation of Iacopo da Varazze’s Golden Legend, a fourteenth-century Florentine text. The existing version, published by Arrigo Levasti in the years 1924-1926, is unreliable and based on a single ms., the Riccardiano (1254). This article offers a sample of the forthcoming critical edition, based on a new census of the ms. tradition: a selection of ten chapters preceded by an exposition of the criteria for the edition and of the results achieved until now.
as demonstrated by a structural comparison with other medieval vernacular translations of the "Vitae Patrum", this fragment represents a very small part of a seemingly much longer text, which could be paralleled to the well-known Tuscan volgarizzamento by Domenico Cavalca, the Vite dei Santi Padri. a piece of evidence from an inventory of the monastery of San martino delle Scale seems to confirm that this translation circulated in Benedictine monasteries in late 14th century.
ENG: This contribution examines an unpublished legendary translated into Tuscan vernacular by Giovanni Cherichi «cittadino fiorentino», dated to the mid-fifteenth century (Firenze, Bibl. Riccardiana 1390). In a brief prologue, Cherichi informs the reader that he translated this collection of 31 vitae from a codex entitled «la storia aurea», written partly in French and partly in Latin, and that his source was French. After ruling out the possibility of a direct dependence of the translation from Iacopo da Varazze’s Legenda aurea, we identify the sources of the collection in the tradition of French collections of saints’ lives, previously studied by Paul Meyer and, more recently, by Jean-Pierre Perrot. In particular, it is shown that the direct source of the first section of Cherichi’s «libro» (I-XVII) is the most ancient group of lives of the French legendaries, the so-called «légendier A»; this section appears to be related to the Franco-Italian branch of the tradition.
ENG: The Quaedam Profetia, a poem witnessed by a single manuscript (Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III”, V. C. 22, cc. 167r-168v), is one of the few recorded documents in verses written in Sicilian and dating back to the 14th century. A passionate discussion on whether editors should preserve or amend the largely recurring rhyme imperfections and syllabic variations (hypermetric and hypometric hemistichs) has taken place among scholars, and is now accounted with reference to the history of Sicilian philology. This contribution aims to demonstrate through updated metricological tools that such «imperfections» are systematic and, most likely, original. Finally, an analysis of the diffusion of the metric form of the Profetia (quatrain of alexandrines with internal rhyme) is provided, thus allowing to reconsider the proximity of this poem to a well-defined group of texts such as its unicity.
[The PDF contains a preview; if you wish to read this essay, don't hesitate to message me or get more information about the volume at: http://www.arborsapientiae.com/libro/20900/que-ben-devetz-conoisser-la-plus-fina-per-margherita-spampinato-a-cura-di-mario-pagano-biblioteca-di-sinestesie-62.html]
Since 2013, the LAI (Legenda Aurea in Italiano,) project is occupying a team of scholars who aim to prepare a critical edition of the most important Old Italian translation of Iacopo da Varazze’s Golden Legend, a fourteenth-century Florentine text. The existing version, published by Arrigo Levasti in the years 1924-1926, is unreliable and based on a single ms., the Riccardiano (1254). This article offers a sample of the forthcoming critical edition, based on a new census of the ms. tradition: a selection of ten chapters preceded by an exposition of the criteria for the edition and of the results achieved until now.
as demonstrated by a structural comparison with other medieval vernacular translations of the "Vitae Patrum", this fragment represents a very small part of a seemingly much longer text, which could be paralleled to the well-known Tuscan volgarizzamento by Domenico Cavalca, the Vite dei Santi Padri. a piece of evidence from an inventory of the monastery of San martino delle Scale seems to confirm that this translation circulated in Benedictine monasteries in late 14th century.
ENG: This contribution examines an unpublished legendary translated into Tuscan vernacular by Giovanni Cherichi «cittadino fiorentino», dated to the mid-fifteenth century (Firenze, Bibl. Riccardiana 1390). In a brief prologue, Cherichi informs the reader that he translated this collection of 31 vitae from a codex entitled «la storia aurea», written partly in French and partly in Latin, and that his source was French. After ruling out the possibility of a direct dependence of the translation from Iacopo da Varazze’s Legenda aurea, we identify the sources of the collection in the tradition of French collections of saints’ lives, previously studied by Paul Meyer and, more recently, by Jean-Pierre Perrot. In particular, it is shown that the direct source of the first section of Cherichi’s «libro» (I-XVII) is the most ancient group of lives of the French legendaries, the so-called «légendier A»; this section appears to be related to the Franco-Italian branch of the tradition.
ENG: The Quaedam Profetia, a poem witnessed by a single manuscript (Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III”, V. C. 22, cc. 167r-168v), is one of the few recorded documents in verses written in Sicilian and dating back to the 14th century. A passionate discussion on whether editors should preserve or amend the largely recurring rhyme imperfections and syllabic variations (hypermetric and hypometric hemistichs) has taken place among scholars, and is now accounted with reference to the history of Sicilian philology. This contribution aims to demonstrate through updated metricological tools that such «imperfections» are systematic and, most likely, original. Finally, an analysis of the diffusion of the metric form of the Profetia (quatrain of alexandrines with internal rhyme) is provided, thus allowing to reconsider the proximity of this poem to a well-defined group of texts such as its unicity.
Available online here: https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/un-mooring-race-in-sicilian-folklore-the-tradition-of-testa-di-moro-878a9e8cbe20
Available online at: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2022/12/27/what-a-wikipedia-assignment-looks-like-day-to-day/