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The critical edition of Dante’s Commedia: exemplary or unique case?
Abstract
Discussing the solutions offered by various recent editions (Sanguineti, Inglese, Tonelli-Trovato), this essay examines characteristic aspects of the text (very high number of witnesses, conceptual quality) and more general methodological problems (contamination, evaluation of late witnesses, elimination of superfluous witnesses).
Keywords
- Dante
- Commedia
- Textual criticism
- Contaminatio
- Recent manuscripts
