Il volgarizzamento delle favole di Galfredo dette di Esopo: testo di lingua, Vol. 1

Title

en_US Il volgarizzamento delle favole di Galfredo dette di Esopo: testo di lingua, Vol. 1

en_US Scelta di Curiosità Litterarie Inedite o Rare dal Secolo XIII al XVII, Dispensa LXXV

Description

en_US Language note: Italian

en_US Original language: lat

en_US Gaetano Ghivizzani

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T19:58:51Z

en_US 2009-08

en_US 1866

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:58:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1866

Abstract

en_US Here is a strange, delicate, unlikely, wonderful find. How likely is it that I find in a Stuttgart bookshop one of 202 copies of an obscure 1866 Bologna publication on an Italian popularization of medieval fables? This first volume of two lacks its outer cover, but each of its twelve signatures is intact. The collection in which it appears is itself curious: Scelta di Curiosità Litterarie Inedite o Rare dal Secolo XIII al XVII, Dispensa LXXV. (Volume II is Dispensa LXXVI). Some of this volume's pages are uncut. This first volume is an historical study of the origins and development of Italian fable. There is a summary or overview, though without page numbers, starting on IX. (Its 217 pages are numbered with Roman numerals.) This volume has 57 chapters, moving from the history of fable to consideration particularly, I gather, of the sources of Italian popularizations of Aesop. Final sections cover the manuscripts and books of Italian popularizations of Aesop and tables showing the correspondence of the fables of Galfredo (sometimes Gauffredo) with the fables of other collations. The last section seems to be a dictionary of unusual vocabulary -- or unusually used vocabulary -- found in Galfredo's texts. The big question for me, with no Italian, is whether Galfredo (Geoffrey?) is Walter of England or an Italian derivative of Walter. I tend to the latter opinion: this book is about an Italian prose version of the Anonymous Neveleti (Walter of England), whose texts are given in the second volume. This volume is not numbered, as the second volume is (#105 of 202 copies printed). I notice on Italian Wikipedia that there are three different studies in the 1860's, including this one, on the popularization (volgarizzamento) of Aesopic fable. The subject was apparently in the air.

Identifier

en_US 6725 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82038

Language

en_US ita

Publisher

en_US Gaetano Romagnoli

en_US Bologna

Subject

en_US PA3855.I8 G45 1866

en_US Aesop

Type

en_US Book, Whole