Pedro Pablo de Ribera: Le Glorie immortali (1609) Studio, edizione filologica e note

• Autores: Clarissa Maria Leone
• Directores de la Tesis: Júlia Benavent (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat de València ( España ) en 2022
• Idioma: español
• Número de páginas: 540
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  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: RODERIC
• Resumen

  • The purpose of this research is the elaboration of the philological edition of Le Glorie immortali de' trionfi et heroiche imprese d'ottocento quarantacinque donne illustri antiche, e moderne, dotate di conditioni, e scienze segnalate, written by Pedro Pablo de Ribera, the canon regular of the Lateran originating from Valencia, and published in Venice (1609) by the typographer Evangelista Deuchino. The text was printed in 1609 and belongs to the tradition of bibliographies dedicated to women, a catalogue of 845 women biographies who distinguished themselves throughout history, from the Antiquity to the Modern Age, for their talents, their qualities and their abilities in various fields (writing, poetry, good government, nobility of mind). The book by Pedro Pablo de Ribera, initially conceived to address a specific woman, the one who would approach the Christian world, a modest and humble girl whose main virtues were shyness and shame, later extended to a much wider target group, introduced a model for women readers, religious and lay, belonging to different social classes. In fact, biographies of biblical characters (Sara, Rebecca, Bathsheba, Susanna, Ester), martyrs and saints, are not the only ones to be found within the text. There are also biographies of women from the classical age who constitute an example of chaste and faithful love together with women from medieval and modern times who represent true primary models inspired by their own existence. The aim of this research is to elaborate the edition of the Ribera work, a text that fills a gap in the studies on women's catalogs from the early seventeenth century, printed according to the new sensibility derived from the Council of Trent. The research will insert the Ribera catalog in the tradition started by Plutarch on the life of virtuous women, and will study the relationship with previous texts by great authors such as Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Filippo Foresti, Juan Pérez de Moya. It will pay special attention to the structure and the content of a work that aspired to be proclaimed the most complete up to the moment of its publication. Therefore, this project is willing to deepen the study of women who lived in a society always dominated by cultural machismo and wants to develop the following objectives: give back to the 17th century text a philologically correct look through the study of the text and the comparison with the main sources, including it in a precise historical, cultural and political context: the time of the Counter-Reformation; search for historical and biographical information about the author, today historiographically unknown; study female repertoires and biographies of exemplary women, paying special attention to the role that the protagonists play in the society of the time.