Abstract

The essay provides a preliminary investigation into the manuscript tradition of Antonio Pucci’s Centiloquio. After an initial section dedicated to summarizing the most recent philological acquisitions concerning the text of the Florentine poet, the contribution presents a description of the manuscripts of the work, whose total number has now increased from three to four codexes, following the discovery of a new one previously considered lost. The results of the collatio are then discussed, and an attempt is made to reconstruct the genealogical relationships between the manuscripts, supported by a cataloging of guide-errors. In its last part, the paper addresses some methodological issues concerning the most appropriate editorial strategies to be applied in constitutio textus.