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Gianfranco Contini

Frammenti di Filologia romanza. Scritti di ecdotica e linguistica (1932-1989)

A cura di Giancarlo Breschi

HB pp. XVIII-677; 678-1498, € 170,00

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2007
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978-88-8450-218-6
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In the introduction to his Breviario di Ecdotica (1986), Gianfranco Contini recalls the proposal, made first by De Luca, then Mattioli, to collect his 'technical writings' and reveals that early on he had chosen the title of the hypothetical collection: Fragments of Romance Philology. Entrusted to Giancarlo Breschi and assembled after the maestro's death (1990), the collection was late in coming, due to a variety of editorial difficulties. It now sees the light of day under the auspices of the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, which houses Contini's library and archive, and represents a summa of the ecdotic and linguistic work of the great philologist, embracing the almost sixty years of his scholarly and related activities in the field of philology. Around ninety essays, divided into 7 sections (Ecdotics, Medieval Latin Philology, Italian Philology, Provençal Philology, French and Franco-Italian philology, Linguistics, and Lexical Entries): the theoretical foundations of 'neo-Lachmannism', sample applications on St. Alexis, philological aids for the Poets of the Duecento, lectures and reviews on the great authors of the Italian Middle Ages (Bonvesin, Guittone, Jacopone, Cecco, Petrarch, Boccaccio), editions of Provençal troubadours (Bertran Carbonel, Peire Cardenal) and didactic texts, the discovery of unpublished Italian and French manuscripts, debate on Franco-Italian, and Lombard dialectology, new etymologies, structural linguistics applied to Tuscan and Castilian. A collection enriched by some unpublished items from the Archive to underscore Contini's decisive contribution to twentieth century philology.
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