The role of Italian vernacular varieties in the history of communication in the Mediterranean world has only occasionally been investigated (see Baglioni 2010). In this research are brought to... Show moreThe role of Italian vernacular varieties in the history of communication in the Mediterranean world has only occasionally been investigated (see Baglioni 2010). In this research are brought to attention some letters exchanged between the States General of the United Provinces and the Ottoman Empire between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They contribute to framing the spread of the Venetian variety as a lingua franca in diplomatic correspondence between the Mediterranean and Northern European worlds. Show less
Authorial variants in Annibal Caro’s Apologia · The collation of 20 copies, traditionally indicated for the scrutiny of an edition like this consisting of a thousand copies, proved to be... Show moreAuthorial variants in Annibal Caro’s Apologia · The collation of 20 copies, traditionally indicated for the scrutiny of an edition like this consisting of a thousand copies, proved to be insufficient to clearly reconstruct the printing phases of this princeps. It shows a complex situation attested today by the collation of 84 copies (almost a quarter of those emerging from catalogs in Italy and abroad), which reveals the importance that this text has played for Caro during the note controversy with Ludovico Castelvetro: the reconstruction of the material genesis of the Apologia offers one of the best examples of personal promotion implemented through the press within the so called “questione della lingua”.Therefore, this contribution presents a privileged philological case, because it is rich in information, in which the typologies of textual variations and the possible linguistic, stylistic, content and mechanical motivations claim the consideration of multiple material aspects, even paper and watermarks, and illustrate the importance of collating surviving copies and the need to conduct it extensively and systematically if we want to offer to the public today a work realized during the period of manual printing. Show less
