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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. VI. Continuazione del Roman de Guiron

A cura di Marco Veneziale

HB pp. XVI-530, € 80,00

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2020
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978-88-8450-982-6
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978-88-8450-988-8
 
 

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The present volume offers the critical edition of a text belonging to the Cycle of Guiron le Courtois, published for the first time under the title of Continuation of the ‘Roman de Guiron’. From a narrative standpoint, the continuation follows the second branche of the cycle, i.e. the Roman de Guiron, at the end of which all the best knights of the realm are either imprisoned or somehow unable to perform any chivalrous enterprise. The Continuation narrates the adventures of young Arthur, who leaves the court to go in search of king Meliadus; adventure after adventure, he discovers the true meaning of the life of a knight-errant, and learns the principles of chivalric courtesy. The Continuation is preserved in its entirety in two manuscript witnesses of Italian provenance, and partially in several other French manuscripts. The introduction discusses the position of the text in the narrative context of the Guiron Cycle, highlighting the main connections between the Continuation and its previous sections. A comprehensive study on the manuscript tradition of the Continuation and on its diffusion outlines the literary success of this work, also illustrated through the scrutiny of some texts that were inspired by it. The codicological, linguistic and stemmatic analysis of the manuscripts demonstrates that the Continuation of the ‘Roman de Guiron’ is the oldest and the most authoritative amongst all the supplements to the three main branches of the Cycle.
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