Textual Criticism and Historical Dictionaries

Storie e linguaggi, 2019

Indice Le texte des Actes des Apôtres dans Editio Critica Maior (ECM); meilleur ou pire que NA28/UBS5? Bengt Alexanderson Panni, mantelli, stuoie e calzari: dalle glosse volgari dell’Arukh (sec. XI-XII) Luisa Ferretti Cuomo Ancora sulla data della prima e della seconda epistola di Dante. Questioni biografiche e di metodo Giuseppe Indizio Petrarca nella biblioteca di Spinoza Paolo Cherchi At the very beginning of the ‘modern’ editions of the Commedia: first integral collations by Vandelli for the “Dante del ’21” Marco Giola “Twittare allo specchio?” Analisi delle reazioni su Twitter della Destra radicale italiana intorno a un crimine d’odio Nikita Lobanov

Medieval Review, 2003

A tendency to go "back to basics" has become more and more pervasive in the last ten years of Renaissance and early modern studies. This tendency, perhaps the sign of a larger revisionist turn, manifests itself in two vast areas of interest: history and philology. Historians of the period have in the past decade become ever more interested in topics such as the history of the senses, of corporeality, and of material objects, thus revealing a concern with the primal and most immediate categories of perception and aesthetic appreciation of the world. But, philology has reawakened the sense that in order to understand a historical period

2005

Book Reviews 757 qr Questione di lingua: L'ideologia del dibattito sull'italiano nel Cinquecento. Caterina Mongiat Farina. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2014. 164 pp. €20.00. ISBN 978-88-8063-797-4. Reviewed by: Nicolino Applauso Loyola University Maryland

Roma: Vecchiarelli editore, 2005. 344 pages.

2024

The subject of this study is the Greek manuscript f. 72, No. 7, kept at the Institute of the Manuscript of the National V. Vernadsky Library of Ukraine in Kyiv. The use of paleographic, codicological, and comparative research methods makes it possible to determine that the manuscript was compiled in Italy in the second half of the 15th century and is a short version of the dictionary of Joannes Zonaras with 12,822 entries. The total number of words is about 50,000. Previously, the manuscript was kept in the Sinai monastery of St. Catherine in Kyiv. Similar dictionaries are found in a number of European countries.

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Quaerendo 43, Brill: Leiden, 61-82, 2013

The Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae is a collection of accounts on Italian history and antiquities that was published in Leiden at the beginning of the eighteenth century by the Dutch publisher Pieter van der Aa. This publication offers a splendid opportunity to shed light on the ‘behind the scenes’ dynamics of what turned out to be a rather cumbersome undertaking. Drawing on epistolary material, this paper investigates the obstacles that Van der Aa encountered in gathering the material and concentrates in particular on the involvement of the Italian scholars that the Dutch publisher contacted to obtain advice and sources. Inexplicably at first glance, they hold contradictory opinions about Van der Aa’s initiative, from praise to open opposition. The sources presented here demonstrate that this situation was caused by the existence of similar ongoing Italian projects in competition with the Dutch collection on Italian history and antiquities. Particularly telling is the attitude of the famous Italian historian Lodovico Antonio Muratori, who felt a growing antagonism towards Van der Aa’s project, since he matured his plans to publish the Rerum Italicarum scriptores that partially overlapped with the Thesaurus.