At the threshold of historiography. : Manuscript miscellany as a form of historical writing in medieval Southern Italy

The article discusses selected forms of interventions around and into the historical texts assembled in three miscellanies from the 14th century (BAV, Vat. lat. 5001; Paris, BnF, fr. 688, and Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII.C.9). Three aspects of editorial agency of their designers are of particular interest. First, the selection of pre-existing works according to certain thematic threads. Second, presenting the miscellany to a target audience. The destination other than private may be hypothesized from the paratext or near-contemporary evidence of use. Third, the modifications of the original paratextual apparatus and also the very content of the received texts. It is argued that in virtue of the variety and scale of those interventions, the three miscellanies verge on historical writings.Non peer reviewe

Le vie dell\u2019antico sono infinite? Appunti sulle fonti archeologiche negli elementi decorativi di Santa Maria presso San Satiro a Milano

A partire dal ricchissimo corpus di disegni dall\u2019Antico di et\ue0 umanistica e da una serie di vestigia antiche, il saggio individua i possibili modelli antiquari introdotti nei dettagli decorativi della chiesa milanese di Santa Maria Presso San Satiro e nei pregevoli capitelli figurati della Sacrestia, progettata da Bramante. Da questa analisi affiorano importanti (ed inedite) relazioni tra Milano, Urbino, Roma e Padova, utili a valutare la circolazione delle fonti antiche tra la fine del XV e l\u2019inizio del XVI secolo

Spina e rosa: il volgarizzamento italiano del Compendium theologicae veritatis di Ugo Ripelin di Strasburgo OP

Hugo Ripelin of Strasburg’s Compendium theologicae veritatis was an extremely popular work of theological instruction in the Late Middle Ages. An Italian version of its third and fifth book, dealing with the vices and the virtues, is headed Spina e Rosa. This vernacular treatise had also remarkable success, especially during the 15th century. The paper presents its manuscript tradition, which amounts to 20 copies. Whereas most of them are of Northern Italian origin, the oldest ms. and some other testimonies as well, come from Central- Southern Italy, leaving open the question about the origin of the text. Yet, the content and provenience of the mss. confirm that Spina e Rosa, written during the 14th century, belongs entirely to the contemporary culture of religious volgarizzamenti as established by the Tuscan Dominicans. Furthermore, it can be shown that this vernacular version of the Compendium was widespread among Franciscan and Augustine Friars

Chapter Lo “studium” e la biblioteca di Santa Maria Novella nel Duecento e nei primi anni del Trecento (con una postilla sul Boezio di Trevet)

Building on recent scholarship, this article sketches the development of the Florentine studium of Santa Maria Novella in the thirteenth century, before it became a studium generale between 1305 and 1311. The catalogue of Santa Maria Novella’s library and the information regarding works which were conceived there are collected and analysed to outline the core of the ancient library. The first quire of the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. G 3.451 (cc. 1-8) constitutes a notable case study for the learning interests of Dominican friars. Finally, this article discusses the controversial letter written by Nicholas Trevet to the dedicatee of his commentary on Boethius’ Consolatio Philosophiae and re-assesses its disputed connec- tion with the Florentine environment

Ricezione dell’esegesi patristica nella tradizione slava: osservazioni in margine ai testi sull’albero della Croce

Church Fathers Exegesis in Slavic Christian Tradition: some remarks about the Holy Cross files. The paper focuses on the reception of exegetical writings of the Church Fathers in Slavic mediaeval society. At first, a classification of literary genres and hermeneutical methodologies – both allegorical and historical – is provided. Moreover, different types of biblical commentary developed in the Greek tradition are analysed in order to establish which of them were subsequently passed down to the Slavic tradition. The article infers that σχόλια, ὑποµνήµατα, ἐρωταποκρίσεις and Pentateuch and/or Octateuch commentaries in a pericope-by-pericope or verse-by-verse basis spread across the Slavic Christian communities. The main achievement of this research is the identification of the Slavic Paleja as a commentary of catena type. It was translated from Greek but underwent to different redactions in Slavonic during a long perio

Primi prolegomeni per l''editio princeps' dell'epitome erodianea Περὶ πνευ- μάτων ('de spiritibus') di Teodoreto Grammatico

Il contributo dà conto della storia degli studî condotti nel corso del secolo XIX sul testo dell’epitome erodianea Περὶ πνευμάτων di Teodoreto Grammatico in vista della mai realizzata ‘editio princeps’ e presenta alcuni manoscritti finora non presi in considerazione. Tenta quindi di stringere quanto più possibile la forbice cronologica entro la quale collocare la composizione dell’opera. Presenta l’edizione delle prime due parti del trattato (un epigramma di dedica e una trattazione fonofisiologica) e fornisce alcuni criterî guida per una futura edizione delle due parti rimanenti. Da ultimo ilustra per esempî il fondamentale contributo che da Teodoreto può giungere per la ricostruzione del libro XX della Καθολικὴ προσῳδία di Elio Erodiano.This paper gives information about the studies dedicated by various scholars during the XIX century to the epitome from Herodian Περὶ πνευμάτων by a Theodoretus grammaticus in sight of the till now never achieved ‘editio princeps’, then presents a couple of new manuscripts, not taked into accunt. It intends then to grestrict as much as possible the chronological gap in which the composition of the treatise has to be placed. A critical edition of the first two parts of the work follows (a dedication epigram and a phonophysiological treatise), then it supplies some general ctiteria in sight of a future critical edition of the whole text. In the last part it demonstrates the contribution that comes from Theodoretus for the reconstruction of book XX of Aelius Herodianus’ Καθολικὴ προσῳδία