Interpreting the Commentary Tradition to the Comedy

Parker, Deborah

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“…On the early commentary tradition, see Dionisotti 1965, Mazzoni 1965, Sandkühler 1967, Jenaro-MacLennan 1974, Vallone 1981, Minnis and Scott 1988Hollander 1994, Parker 1997, BaraÒski 2001, Bellomo 2004, Gilson 2005, Franceschini 2008 Mazzucchi 2011, and Nasti and Rossignoli 2013.…”

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Prolegomena to the New Edition of Francesco da Buti’s Commentary on Dante’s Commedia. Purgatorio

Tardelli¹

2019

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In this article I discuss the relationships between the extant manuscript tradition of Francesco da Buti's commentary on Dante's Purgatorio. My argument shows that the constitutio textus cannot be arrived at in a mechanical way, owing to the numerous contaminations and interpolations. I thus o er some general methodological reflections on how to critically edit a long prose text whose MSS tradition is densely contaminated. With this in mind I make the case that the most appropriate way to approach the making of the edition is to base the text on a single authoritative manuscript. VARIANTS 14 (2019) lished, is to provide a reliable and accurate text, expurgated of errors, equipped with an apparatus which critically justifies the editor's textual choices, and furnished with an apparatus fontium. 2 This article is thus a preparatory study to the new critical edition, which will soon be published by Salerno Editrice (Rome) as part of the series 'Edizione Nazionale dei Commenti danteschi' in several volumes. The main aim is to investigate the manuscript tradition of the Purgatorio's section of Francesco da Buti's commentary. Since Buti's commentary on the Commedia is a particularly long text (over one million words) it has seemed appropriate to o er separate preparatory studies for each canticle. 3 After a brief introduction on Buti himself and on the genesis and fortune of his Dante commentary, I intend to discuss in these Prolegomena the relationships between the extant manuscript tradition of the Purgatorio section. In doing so, I will show that the constitutio textus cannot be arrived at in a mechanical way, owing to the numerous contaminations and interpolations. I will thus o er some general methodological reflections on how to critically edit a long prose text whose MSS tradition is contaminated. As a result of this discussion, I will argue that the most appropriate way to approach the making of the edition is to base its text on a single authoritative manuscript (i.c. MS N).

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Prolegomena to the New Edition of Francesco da Buti’s Commentary on Dante’s Commedia. Purgatorio

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“…The commentary tradition is of central importance to both our understanding of Dante's Commedia and medieval interpretative reading practices. As Dante had already applied the process of commentary to his own works Convivio and Vita Nuova in a form of self-exegesis (Botterill, 2005), it was a natural progression for his readers to do the same with the Commedia, a poem which Deborah Parker (1997) notes was relatively inaccessible even to a contemporary audience because of its range of ancient and theological references. This interpretative practice resulted in a huge canon of work in the century following Dante's death.…”

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2022

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This report critiques the system known as Dante Lab by accessessing the record of l’Ottimo Commento’s commentary on Dante’s Purgatorio. Dante Lab provid- ed users with a variety of options that allowed for increasing engagement with the record, the depths of which is only apparent when looking into the design and assumptions of the system. The presentation of the record is done without any interpretative work, which is left to the user to abstract. It was found that the Dante Lab database is accessible and understandable to a range of users, from novices to Dante Scholars, and extensively improves on its predecessor system, the Dante Dartmouth Project (DDP).

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Interpreting the Commentary Tradition to the Comedy

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Prolegomena to the New Edition of Francesco da Buti’s Commentary on Dante’s Commedia. Purgatorio

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