Lucia Castaldi Ed (2 results)

Hardcover. Cloth, dw, VG.

Firenze, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023. X,778 pp. Orig. hardcover (beige cloth with brown lettering on spine), d./j. 8vo. (Millennio medievale. Strumenti e studi, 49).The eighth volume of the project "The Transmission of Medieval Latin Texts - Mediaeval Latin Texts and Their Transmission (Te.Tra.)" is entirely dedicated to anonymous and pseudepigraphic works. The essays presented concern the following literary genres: Accessus, Ars dictandi, Ars poetica, Bestiaria, Chronographia et computus, Exempla, Fabulae, Grammatica, Hagiographia, Historia, Itineraria, Lexica et glossaria, Medicina, Philosophia, Prophetiae, Scripta alchemica, Sermones et homiliae. Each article presents an exhaustive study of the manuscript transmission of the work and of the philological-transmissional problems, providing a specimen of the literary genre to which it belongs. Since anonymity and pseudepigraphy are closely linked, due to the absence of authority, to the phenomena of interpolation, the proposed articles provide a starting framework for understanding the alteration to which anonymous and pseudepigraphic works have been subjected. - Text largely in Latin, part in English. - The publisher's official new price for this single volume is 120,--.…