Prolegomena to the new edition of Francesco da Buti’s commentary on Dante’s Commedia. Purgatorio

Tardelli, C. (2019) Prolegomena to the new edition of Francesco da Buti’s commentary on Dante’s Commedia. Purgatorio. Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (14). pp. 95-116. ISSN 1573-3084 (Unpublished)

Abstract/Summary

In this article I discuss the relationships between the extant manuscript tradition of Francesco da Buti’s commentary on Dante’s Purgatorio. My argument shows that the constitutio textus cannot be arrived at in a mechanical way, owing to the numerous contaminations and interpolations. I thus offer some general methodological reflections on how to critically edit a long prose text whose MSS tradition is densely contaminated. With this in mind I make the case that the most appropriate way to approach the making of the edition is to base the text on a single authoritative manuscript.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/79241
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > Italian
Publisher	Rodopi
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