Prolegomena to the New Edition of Francesco da Buti’s Commentary on Dante’s Commedia. Purgatorio

• Claudia Tardelli ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Reading

     University of Reading

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Variants, ISSN 1573-3084, Nº. 14, 2019, págs. 95-116
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.