Among the many sources used by Boccaccio in his scholarly work Genealogia deorum gentilium, there are also the Homeric poems, made available to the author thanks to Leonzio Pilato’s Latin translation. What is interesting is that besides the Latin text of Iliad and Odyssey, he makes use also of Leonzio’s glosses written in the margins of his autograph manuscripts. In the wake of Agostino Pertusi’s pioneering study, this paper traces a link between Leonzio’s glosses on the Odyssey (Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. IX 29) and many passages of the Genealogia where Leonzio is quoted as a source. The analysis is structured in three parts, i.e. the quotation of Boccaccio’s passage, the text of the source and a detailed commentary on its use.
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Chapter Title
«Leontius dicit»: l’utilizzo delle glosse a Omero nella Genealogia di Boccaccio
Authors
Chiara Ceccarelli
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-510-3.04
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Publication Year
2021
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Book Title
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2020
Book Subtitle
Atti del Seminario internazionale di studi (Certaldo Alta, Casa di Giovanni Boccaccio, 10-11 settembre 2020)
Editors
Giovanna Frosini
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Number of Pages
196
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-510-3
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-509-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-510-3
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-512-7
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919