Giovan Girolamo Carli, a Sienese scholar (1719-1786), focused on the language of the Letters, usually considered a secondary aspect compared to their historical and theological value. Probably pushed by an anonimous client, Carli was planning to publish the first critical edition of the Letters, strictly philological, supported by insights on the life of the Blessed and a dictionary. His manuscript drafts, even incomplete, are however a precious source for reconstructing the original documents tradition, since he directly consulted and compared different and authoritative copies. Carli's purpose was to celebrate a fellow citizen, but also to prove the Sienese linguistic primacy instead of the Florentine one – as in art historiography –, and propose an authentic style against the contemporary mediocrity.
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Chapter Title
Le Lettere del beato Colombini come esempio di dialetto senese secondo Giovan Girolamo Carli
Authors
Elisa Bruttini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-228-7.24
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
Le vestigia dei gesuati
Book Subtitle
L’eredità culturale del Colombini e dei suoi seguaci
Editors
Isabella Gagliardi
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Number of Pages
384
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-228-7
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-227-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-228-7
Series Title
Fragmentaria. Studi di storia culturale e antropologia religiosa
Series ISSN
2975-1217
Series E-ISSN
2975-1225