The paper examines some critical aspects of the manuscript tradition of Boccaccio’s Corbaccio, starting from the results of the very few studies on the subject. Besides proposing an updated list of all the 79 available manuscripts that hand down the work, whose yet we don’t have any critical edition, he then demonstrates, through a number of examples, the benefits of widening perspective to the codes of the non-α family, but also of a comprehensive reconsideration of the status of α itself. In the absence of a solid classification of the whole manuscript tradition, the “traditional” hypothesis that the α2 group (and in particular the Mannelli codex) represents an advanced redaction of Boccaccio’s «umile trattato» risks to be too conditioning if assumed at such a preliminary stage.
Scuola Superiore Meridionale di Napoli, Italy
Chapter Title
Per l’edizione del Corbaccio: preliminari allo studio della tradizione
Authors
Lorenzo Giglio
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-668-1.02
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2022
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Book Title
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2021
Book Subtitle
Atti del Seminario internazionale di studi (Certaldo Alta, Casa di Giovanni Boccaccio, 9-10 settembre 2021)
Editors
Monica Berté
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
200
Publication Year
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-668-1
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-667-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-668-1
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919