A Less Than Discreet Copyist

Dating to the last quarter of the 15th century, the ms. Milan, Civic Historical Archive and Trivulziana Library, 85 conveys a lesson from Ser Giovanni’s Pecorone which well reflects what Edgar Morin happily defined in 1962 as l’esprit du temps. The discussion will analyze the linguistic facies that the copyist gives to his text, as well as the numerous subtractions and additions capable, potentially, of telling us a lot about the culture within which this book project was born and formed.

Nicola Esposito is Teaching Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests range between the Tuscan novels of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries (with particular attention paid to Giovanni Boccaccio, ser Giovanni, Franco Sacchetti and Giovanni Sercambi) and the textual philology of late medieval Italian. Among his most recent publications are: The manuscript tradition of the ‘Pecorone’ by ser Giovanni, Italia Medioevale e Umanistica, 64, 2023; On the status of the ballads of the ‘Decameron’: between courtly culture and chivalric fascinations, L’Ellisse. Studies – Historians of Italian Literature, XVIII/I, 2023, pp. 7-20. Join us on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET.

Speakers:
Nicola Esposito, Mattia Boccuti, Salvatore Arcidiacono, Ryan Pepin, Sara Ravani, and Giovanni Lupinu.

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