Adhortatio

Petrus de Pretio; Martina Pavoni

Adhortatio: critical edition based on the ms. Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 1268

Authors

Petrus de Pretio

Martina Pavoni

University of Basilicata

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6417-6107

Keywords:

Petrus de Pretio, Charles I of Anjou, Conradin of Hohenstaufen, Ars dictaminis

Synopsis

Series: Digital Humanities, 6

Language: Italian, Latin

ISBN: 978-88-31309-12-7

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27020

Abstract: Petrus de Pretio was a renowned notary and dictator at the court of emperor Frederick II of Swabia and his successors. The Adhortatio is his most important work, written after the battle of Tagliacozzo and the ferocious execution of the young Conradin of Swabia (1268), ordered by Charles I of Anjou, who in 1266 had already become lord of the Kingdom of Sicily (after the battle of Benevento, in 1266). With his passionate and refined exhortation, he incites the Marquis Federico di Meissen, nephew of Frederick II and closest relative of Corradino, to claim his rights over the Kingdom and to punish the infamy of Charles I of Anjou, who had committed an inadmissible crime, against the law and the religion. The edition is based on the ms. Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 1268, particularly reliable and datable between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.

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Author Biography

Martina Pavoni, University of Basilicata

Martina Pavoni earned the Diploma of post-graduate specialization in the study of medieval latin literature and philology at the International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture (S.I.S.M.E.L.), with a dissertation on the critical edition of the Carmina Ratisponensia (forthcoming). She is currently a PhD student in History, cultures and knowledge of Mediterranean Europe from antiquity to the contemporary age, at the University of Basilicata. Her research focuses on the dictaminaof Pietro da Prezza.