this paper presents the first results of a research which aims at redefining the ancient tradition of petrarch’s ‘rerum vulgarium fragmenta’ through the intersection of the data gathered from a palaeographic-codicological examination of the manuscripts and by a philological analysis of their text. We reviewed the catalographic resources to establish a first group of about 30 manuscripts produced within the first decade of the 14th century. among these, we focused on two copies of the “unformed” tradition of the ‘canzoniere’: the laur. strozzi 178 and pluteo 41 15. the latter was written by antonio da cortona – a famous copyist of the ‘divina commedia’ – and it is particularly interesting, since its order of the poems does not match with any forms of the ‘Fragmenta’, and it also contains some petrarch’s “rime disperse” and even some poems of his correspondents. moreover, the laurentian manuscript shows many readings that may date back to an earlier stage of composition compared to the chigiano l V 176 (written by Boccaccio in 1365 or so), or alternatively witness a different “tradition” from the vulgate. some significant marginal notes suggest that this peculiar collection of poems was put together, shortly after petrarch’s death, by one of his ‘amateurs’ related to the Visconti court – an environment which was strongly interested in petrarchan literary production and books
Intorno alla precoce fortuna trecentesca del Canzoniere: il ms. 41.15 della Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana di Firenze e il suo copista
PULSONI, Carlo
2013
Abstract
this paper presents the first results of a research which aims at redefining the ancient tradition of petrarch’s ‘rerum vulgarium fragmenta’ through the intersection of the data gathered from a palaeographic-codicological examination of the manuscripts and by a philological analysis of their text. We reviewed the catalographic resources to establish a first group of about 30 manuscripts produced within the first decade of the 14th century. among these, we focused on two copies of the “unformed” tradition of the ‘canzoniere’: the laur. strozzi 178 and pluteo 41 15. the latter was written by antonio da cortona – a famous copyist of the ‘divina commedia’ – and it is particularly interesting, since its order of the poems does not match with any forms of the ‘Fragmenta’, and it also contains some petrarch’s “rime disperse” and even some poems of his correspondents. moreover, the laurentian manuscript shows many readings that may date back to an earlier stage of composition compared to the chigiano l V 176 (written by Boccaccio in 1365 or so), or alternatively witness a different “tradition” from the vulgate. some significant marginal notes suggest that this peculiar collection of poems was put together, shortly after petrarch’s death, by one of his ‘amateurs’ related to the Visconti court – an environment which was strongly interested in petrarchan literary production and booksI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
