Papers presented at a colloquium held in Rome, Italy, in July, 2017. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Problems mainly Propertian: Francesco Sperulo and Renaissance commentary / Paul Gwynne. Lorenzo Amato -- La tradizione latina di Galeno e il De farmaciis / Stefania Fortuna -- Recovering 'ancient' gynaecology: the humanist rediscovery of the eleventh-century gynaecological corpus / Monica H. Green -- Una trasmissione complessa da rivedere: appunti sul corpus di scritti di Giovanni di Saint-Amand / Iolanda Ventura -- The transmission of medical knowledge in script and print / Vivian Nutton -- Middle Welsh texts on the virtues of the Mass in their European context / Elena Parina and Maria Volkonskaya -- Copyists and redactors: towards a prolegomenon to the editio princeps of Peregrinatio Antiochie per Vrbanum papam facta / Samu Niskanen -- Saved in translation: vernacular translations from Paris, BNF, fr. 688, as witnesses of lost texts, manuscripts and readings / Jakub Kujawiński -- Revisione d'autore o intervento ideologico? A proposito del De expeditione in Turcos di Biondo Flavio / Concetta Bianca -- The reception of humanist historiography in Venice: simultaneous copying of the De gestis, moribus et nobilitate civitatis Venetiarum by Lorenzo de' Monaci at the beginning of the sixteenth century / Miika Kuha -- From prison to print: Johannes Messenius' Scondia illustrata as a co-product of early modern prison writing / Susanna Niiranen -- De la glose à la parenthèse: traduire Végèce en français au XVIe siècle / Joëlle Ducos -- Le serie di madrigali alla Strozzi: una prima ricognizione e analisi socio-culturale di un genere poetico granducale / Lorenzo Amato -- Problems mainly Propertian: Francesco Sperulo and Renaissance commentary / Paul Gwynne.
Summary:
"What were people really reading at the end of the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance? The nineteenth century saw the rapid development of textual criticism for establishing the 'best' and 'most authentic' forms of both Ancient and Mediaeval texts thanks to the method perfected by Karl Lachmann, who based himself on the insights gained during the eighteenth century. Lachmann's method has been further refined by later philologists, with, most interestingly, the use of computers in establishing the mutual relations of manuscript witnesses since the last decades of the twentieth century. However, the interest in what form the texts, both Ancient and Mediaeval, were actually circulating in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, has been slow to emerge as an area of scholarly interest. In other words: what did the readers actually get in front of their eyes, and acted upon as, say, doctors, historians, theologians between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries? This volume explores the Late Medieval and Renaissance transmission of texts of different genres, languages and periods from the book historical point of view, taking into consideration not only the textual but also the material aspect of the traditions."-- Provided by publisher.
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