L’edizione critica delle liriche medievali: considerazioni dall’Italia

• Main Author: Giuseppina Brunetti
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2012-09-01
• Series: Perspectives Médiévales
• Subjects: edition; lyric; philology
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/peme/1696

This article deals with the edition of medieval lyrical texts in Italy. Such a "nationwide" perspective allows us to evaluate the validity of the editorial methods and their interpretive paradigms (such as the "translachmannian" method). Examples of such an approach can be found in the critical experiments led by Pasquali, Debenedetti and Barbi, but also in those led by Contini, Segre, Roncaglia, Varvaro and Antonelli. However, textual criticism must go beyond these paradigms and adopt a philological, comparative viewpoint. As the reading of a text requires a historical interpretation, it can be argued that even though the text possesses variants, it has no variance — this mouvance having a tendency to "atomize" the text, without being hermeneutically efficient. The conclusion of the article consists in an example of the experimental edition of an ancient Italian text by Giacomino Pugliese.