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Il Ciclo di Guiron le Courtois. Romanzi in prosa del secolo XIII. Edizione critica diretta da Lino Leonardi e Richard Trachsler. IV. Roman de Guiron. Parte prima

A cura di Claudio Lagomarsini

HB pp. XVI-897, € 110,00

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2020
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978-88-8450-969-7
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The title Roman de Guiron identifies the second branche of the Cycle of Guiron le courtois, a colossal complex of French romances in prose composed between 1235 and 1240. The cycle, copied throughout the centuries and appreciated by many generations of readers – including important figures such as Frederick II and Ludovico Ariosto, for whom it served as a source of inspiration for the Orlando furioso – is published in its entirety for the first time by the «Gruppo Guiron». The present volume contains the critical edition of the first half of the Roman de Guiron (§ 1-970): in this romance, Guiron le Courtois makes his first appearance in the Arthurian world; Guiron is a brave knight, absent from the French prose romances of the twelfth century due to a long captivity. At the beginning of the story, Guiron and his loyal companion, Danain the Red, take part in a tournament, accompanied by Danain’s beautiful wife. Another participant, Lac, is captivated by her beauty, and decides to defy her armed guards and kidnap her; Guiron, however, is made aware of Lac’s plan and sets off to prevent his attack. An ambitious and very complex plot unravels from this tangle of opposing desires, involving an impressive number of duels, trials, imprisonments, adventures and many retrospective narrations – a fundamental structural element of the romance – that go back to the age of Uther Pendragon, father of king Arthur. The critical text, built on the basis of a solid stemma according to a new conception of the relationship between content and language, is accompanied by a systematic apparatus of the variants, a commentary and a glossary. The introduction provides an overview of the main literary aspects concerning the first half of the romance, and discusses the most relevant issues related to the tradition and the transmission of the text.
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