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Giusto d'Urgell

Explanatio in Cantica Canticorum. Un vescovo esegeta nel regno visigoto

A cura di Rossana Guglielmetti. Con un saggio di Luigi G. G. Ricci

PB pp. CCXXXII-220, € 68,00

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2011
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978-88-8450-361-9
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Among the very first complete analyses of the Song of Songs in Latin, Giusto d'Urgell's commentary provides an important episode in the history of the work's exegesis: many authors, including Gregory and Bede, were familiar with and inspired by it. No less interesting is the evidence the work offers us of Iberian ecclesiastical life of the period: the perception of imminent threat that permeates the entire text, the theological engagement in doctrinal conflicts with Arianism, and the call to internal reform. Luigi Ricci's essay enhances, in addition, the volume's importance as a linguistic and stylistic document within the context of literary production in the early Visigoth period. This is the first critical edition, based on an examination of the entire manuscript and print traditions (including several cases of indirect transmission,) and is accompanied by a commentary which aims to place the text in relation to preceding Greek and Western exegetical literature.
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