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Volgarizzamenti italiani del De dictis et factis Alfonsi regis del Panormita
No full textAntonio Beccadelli (called il Panormita) was the author of the De dictis et factis Alfonsi regis, a particularly important work for the cultural renewal centered on Alfonso the Magnanimous’s court in Naples. The large number of manuscripts, printed editions, and early translations of the De dictis attests to its widespread dissemination. This article examines two Italian translations of the De dictis from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Beinecke ms. 588, and Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III”, ms. V. F. 36
“Itala fata” e “fata libelli”. Spunti interpretativi sui frammenti del Planctus Italie di Eustachio da Matera, fonte di Boccaccio e Collenuccio
No full textThe article collects and examines the tradition of all the fragments of the lost poem Planctus Italie by Eustachius of Matera. The author wrote his work in 1270, when he was in exile after the battle of Tagliacozzo (1268). The Planctus was divided at least in 5 books, and had perhaps an annalistic structure. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Planctus had quite a good fortune, and was mentioned by Paulus Perusinus and Boccaccio; it was still used by Pandolfo Collenuccio at the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the seventeenth century, instead, the text went lost, and the scholars cited it only indirectly
Annales Cavenses
No full textThe so-called Annales Cavenses are not originally conceived as an independent work, because their com-pilation depends, in a symbiotic way, on preexisting chronological tables; nevertheless, they are an important source for the history of Southern Italy. With their unique and sometimes ingenious system of marginal an-notations, they provide, initially, only a list of emperors or events, such as eclipses, election of abbots, deaths of local lords. However, as we go forward over the years and we approach the time of their compiler, or compilers, the simple catalogue comprehends longer and more structured information, showing also the ideo-logical leaning and the culture of the author. Some particular information, however, could be so compromis-ing that the next compiler was forced to correct or erase what had been written earlier. Annales Cavenses, in short, represent an eloquent example of the most characteristic products of medieval historiography
Ancora sullo Studium di Napoli in epoca sveva: una nuova lettera sulla morte di Giacomo Baldovini
No full textIn queste pagine viene presentata ed edita una consolatio per la morte del famoso giurista Giacomo Baldovini († 1235). Una simile consolatio, già edita, è trasmessa dall’epistolario di Pier della Vigna, ma questa è esplicitamente attribuita a Taddeo da Sessa, giudice della Magna Curia. L’epistola dimostra buona perizia retorica e segue i topoi del genere letterario, ma la sua particolare importanza è connessa con la personalità dell’elogiato e con l’identità dell’autore: questo è l’unico testo sicuramente scritto da Taddeo.
This paper presents a new edition and discussion of a consolatio for the death of the famous jurist Iacobus Balduini († 1235). A similar consolatio from the letters of Petrus de Vinea has already been published; however, the example presented in this paper is explicitly attributed to Thaddeus de Suessa, judge of the Magna Curia. This epistle shows good rhetoric skill and follows the topoi of the literary genre, but its particular importance lies in the connection with Iacobus and the identity of the author: this is the only surviving text that can be attributed with certainty to Thaddeus
Un capitolo della fortuna delle "Decades" di Biondo Flavio: da Pio II a Giovanni Albino
No full textL’articolo concentra l’attenzione sul contenuto del ms. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 11 324, descritto dal catalogo come «Albini Lucani excerpta ex Blondi decadibus». Ma il codice non contiene gli excerpta delle Historiae ab inclinatione Romano rum imperii di Biondo Flavio, bensí una sintesi della Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi di papa Pio II. L’autore Giovanni Albino Lucano, storiografo e curatore della biblioteca dei re aragonesi di Napoli, nella dedica al re Alfonso II non fa alcuna menzione del testo di Pio II da lui usato. L’epitome offre una curiosa attestazione indiretta della fortuna di Biondo Flavio, il quale intrattenne diverse relazioni con la corte napoletana di Alfonso il Magnanimo.This article focuses on the contents of MS Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 11324, described in the catalogue as «Albini Lucani excerpta ex Blondi decadibus». But the MS does not contain the excerpts of the ‘Historiae ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii’ of Biondo Flavio, but a summary of the ‘Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi’ by Pope Pius II. The author, Giovanni Albino Lucano, historian and librarian for the Aragonese kings of Naples, makes no mention in his preface of the work by Pius II which he had used. The epitome is a curious indirect proof of the influence of Biondo Flavio, who had various contacts with the Neapolitan court of Alfonso il Magnanimo
Da Valla a Facio, dalla prassi alla teorizzazione retorica della scrittura storica
Full text linkAt the end of the fifteenth century, in the Aragonese court of Naples, the reflections about the writing of history produced precise rhetorical laws, summarized in the Actius by Giovanni Pontano, but those reflections started up in 1447, with an inflamed controversy among two of the most important humanists of that time: Lorenzo Valla and Bartolomeo Facio. That controversy presented many innovative elements in the invention of political strategies and in the definition of rhetorical rules: the description of contemporaneity and the reorganization of memory found legitimacy through a new professional attention to the analysis of sources and to the use of rhetorical form. About these problems, latin antiquity did not offer specific theoretical models, which were instead adapted from the judicial oratory. In short, the connection between the description of the contemporary, the rhetorical reflection, the need to celebrate and legitimate the royal majesty found a very fertile field in the court of Naples. The discipline of historical writing found there a privileged space: there the historians were well paid, there they were professionally recognized and, subsequently, there they invented a precise regulation of arguments, forms and methods in the historical writing.Le riflessioni sulla scrittura della storia elaborate alla corte aragonese di Napoli giunsero, alla fine del XV secolo, alla definizione di precise leggi retoriche con l’Actius di Giovanni Pontano, ma presero avvio nel 1447, con una infiammata polemica che vide contrapposti due tra i maggiori umanisti dell’epoca, Lorenzo Valla e Bartolomeo Facio. Quella polemica presentava molti elementi innovativi, sia dal punto di vista della strategia politica, sia da quello schiettamente retorico: la descrizione della contemporaneità e la riorganizzazione della memoria cercavano legittimazione attraverso una inedita regolamentazione professionale dell’analisi delle fonti e della forma retorica, per la quale non esistevano nell’Antichità latina modelli teorici specifici, adattati, invece, dall’oratoria giudiziaria. Insomma, la connessione tra descrizione della contemporaneità, riflessione retorica, esigenza di celebrazione e legittimazione della maestà regia trovò alla corte di Napoli un campo assai fecondo. Fu lì che trovò privilegiato spazio quel disciplinamento della scrittura storica che, ampiamente retribuita, portò al suo riconoscimento professionale e, successivamente, alla definizione di un preciso disciplinamento di argomenti, di forme e di metodi
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