La ‘New Philology’ nella prospettiva italiana

Vàrvaro, Alberto; Gleßgen, Martin-Dietrich; Lebsanft, Franz

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“…I thus intend to contribute to the development of a less conventional and more thorough debate on the role of intercomprehension in Italy's linguistic history, along the lines that Maiden (2002), Varvaro (2004aVarvaro ( , 2004bVarvaro ( , 2010 and Vincent (2006Vincent ( , 2010 have prefigured in their research. While the existing histories of the Italian language thoroughly elucidate the top-down process of selection, codification and dissemination of a single model (i.e.…”

Section: Italo-romance Intercomprehension: Towards a Deeper Historica...mentioning

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Opinions about perceived linguistic intelligibility in late-medieval Italy

Carlucci

2020

RRO

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Abstract This article contributes to the historical study of intercomprehension between speakers of closely related languages by focusing on Italy in the period up to the mid-fifteenth century. After a brief introduction to the topic, the second section will be devoted to methodological questions, including certain differences between research based on experimental testing and research based on historical evidence. The third section of the article reports opinions by medieval speakers about the intelligibility of different Italo-Romance varieties, and then compares them to opinions about genealogically and/or geographically more distant languages. While the dominant view among experts on Italy’s linguistic history is that speakers were trapped within mutually unintelligible vernaculars, this review of the extant evidence suggests a greater degree of intercomprehension than is usually supposed.

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Opinions about perceived linguistic intelligibility in late-medieval Italy

Carlucci

2020

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Prolegomena a una nuova edizione critica delle opere volgari di Bonvesin da la Riva

Wilhelm

2023

Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie

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Our perception of the vernacular works of Bonvesin da la Riva is still largely shaped by the editions of Gianfranco Contini (1941 and 1960). A reassessment of Bonvesin in terms of language and literary history can only start from a reflection on the textual basis of his works. The high quality of the Berlin manuscript (ca. 1300), which contains about half of Bonvesin’s oeuvre, is undisputed. However, the “retranslation” of the texts contained exclusively in later manuscripts which converts them into the form of the codex optimus, as still practised by Gökçen (2001), seems unacceptable today. Rather, the aim should be to identify different linguistic, stylistic and textual tendencies of the individual works by making recourse to the entire textual tradition. In this context, the assumption of an absolutely regular metrical form of the alexandrine, which has been advocated since Salvioni and Contini, is becoming increasingly questionable. It is suggested that Bonvesin’s poetry should be considered in the light of the tradition of anisosyllabism, which was well attested in the 13th century. The hypothesis of a “dialectal authenticity” of Bonvesin’s language is also problematic. Rather, an edition must preserve the constitutive polymorphism of the medieval scripta. Overall, the aim must be to recognise the distinctive personality of the medieval poet in the heterogeneity and variability of the surviving texts, beyond anachronistic expectations of a “classic”.

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La ‘New Philology’ nella prospettiva italiana

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Opinions about perceived linguistic intelligibility in late-medieval Italy

Opinions about perceived linguistic intelligibility in late-medieval Italy

Prolegomena a una nuova edizione critica delle opere volgari di Bonvesin da la Riva

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