Primi appunti sulle rubriche della _Commedia_
The essay seeks to investigate the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscript tradition of the _Divine Comedy_'s vernacular and Latin rubrics. Despite its hermeneutic relevance and its importance for the study of the early reception of Dante’s poem, such a paratextual feature has been long disregarded by critics. Taking advantage of the devices developed by the Neolachmannian philology, the study aims to provide a first approach to this incredibly complex and fluid tradition. Seventy codices have been taken into account and extensively collated, thus allowing to trace twenty-six manuscripts back to a single archetype omega (which arguably predates many types of rubrics attested in the surviving witnesses).