Textual Transmission between Babylonia and Susa: A New Solar Omen Compendium

2006 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Rutz
Keyword(s):  
Textual Transmission

Critical philology and Dante’s Commedia: A couple of thoughts and a few examples

2021 ◽  
pp. 001458582110225
Author(s):  
Paolo Trovato
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Torquato Tasso ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Textual Editing ◽  
Textual Transmission ◽  
Pietro Aretino

Not only literary students, but also well-known scholars share the idea that the reconstruction of a text is a routine job which leaves little room for creativity. After some 40 years during which I have edited or prepared the edition of works of Machiavelli ( Discorso intorno alla nostra lingua), Pietro Aretino ( Cortegiana) and Torquato Tasso ( Aminta), and 17 years devoted to the textual transmission and the text of Dante’s  Commedia, I think that, except for the first phases of the job, textual editing requires almost constant critical thought and interpretation. I shall present a little series of examples, mostly from Dante’s Commedia, with cases ranging from decisions in the realm of accidentals to rather complicated choices among competing substantial readings and to the risky enterprise of emendation against all the witnesses of the work. While these examples can give an idea of the novelty of some solutions of my forthcoming edition (the introduction and  Inferno will appear in the summer of 2021), in my view, they seem to confirm the opinion of the great classical philologist Giorgio Pasquali, for whom textual criticism isn’t mechanical; it is methodical.

Sidney’s Legal Patronage and the International Protestant Cause

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1298-1350
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Sir Philip Sidney ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Legal Argument ◽  
Textual Transmission

AbstractThis study brings to light a legal treatise from the mid-1580s on diplomatic and royal immunities and the authority of magistrates. Comparison of extant manuscript copies elucidates the work’s authorship by John Hammond, its commission by Sir Philip Sidney, its legal argument, and its textual transmission to those who orchestrated the treason trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1586. Documentary evidence from 1584 to 1585 aligns Sidney with Elizabeth I’s Scottish policy, not directly with the campaign against Mary Stuart. When Sidney commissioned Hammond’s treatise, this study argues, he aimed primarily to prepare himself for anticipated service as a foreign magistrate.

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