The troubadours and Italy. A repertory of troubadour poems concerning the history of Italy

Publisher: FedOA Press - Federico II Open Access University Press 

Series: Miscellaneous

Language: Multilanguage

Abstract: L’Italia dei trovatori is a digital repertory of troubadour poems related to the history of Italy (12th-14th centuries). Published in open access on the Rialto (Computerized repertory of ancient troubadour and Occitan literature), it operates a complete revision of the corpus published in 1931 by Vincenzo De Bartholomaeis under the title Poesie provenzali storiche relative alla storia d’Italia and includes about 250 lyrical compositions containing explicit or implicit references to events, people and places relating to Italy. The texts are presented in new editions, specially produced by the research team, or in existing editions that are considered reliable and conform to modern philological standards. Each composition is accompanied by a prose translation into Italian and a philological-literary commentary; the new editions also include a critical apparatus and a philological note on the manuscript tradition. Finally, all the texts of the repertory are framed from a historiographical point of view thanks to a special commentary called ‘Historical Circumstances’, in which all the elements useful to date and locate them are discussed, and the main historical themes touched upon are illustrated. The repertory can be consulted according to various parameters: in addition to the classic alphabetical indexes by author and composition, there is a geo-graphic index, which organises the texts according to the main political-territorial realities of late medieval Italy, a prosopographical index, which groups together the texts relating to figures of exceptional importance for Italian history, and a thematic index, which highlights the main historiographical nuclei recorded in the corpus.