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ISSN 2604-7438 · University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries · 34 articles in the index
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Tradició textual i edició de l’Encomi d’Helena gorgià traduït per Vicent Mariner d’Alagó (1639) / Textual Tradition and Edition of Gorgias's Encomium of Helen Translated by Vicent Mariner d'Alagó (1639)
The Valencian scholar Vicent Mariner d’Alagó was probably librarian of El Escorial when he decided to translate the commentators on Euclid, especially Proclus, along with a few related short works by Marinus of Neapolis (1638–39). He compiled these works into a volume, which he sent to the Sicilian…
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En defensa de l’esmena (amb exemples de la poesia catalana medieval) // In Defense of the Emendation (with Examples from Medieval Catalan Poetry)
This note proposes fresh emendations to a score of passages by several medieval Catalan poets (Bernat de So, Pere March, Andreu Febrer, Jordi de Sant Jordi, Lluís Icard, Ausiàs March, and Jaume March Jr.). Each emendation is discussed in detail. The collection is intended not merely as a survey of…
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Benito Arias Montano, Benet Girgós and the poem De sacrarum litterarum studio
In this article, I study the relationship between the distinguished humanist Benito Arias Montano and the little-known Catalan Benet Girgós, secretary to the Spanish embassy in Rome. First, I summarize the available information on Girgós’s biography and give an overview of his friendship with Arias…
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Edición crítica de La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión. Por otro nombre: Peste del Puerto // A Critical Edition of La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión. Por otro nombre: Peste del Puerto
Study and critical edition of La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión. Por otro nombre: Peste del Puerto, a satirical pamphlet published at the end of the seventeenth century and until now practically ignored by Cervantine criticism. Attributed to the pseudonym Ramoles Drangomon, the…
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A Fifteenth-Century Warmian Reworking of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine
This article examines a reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s Liber sine nomine transmitted in a group of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscripts of German provenance—namely, Gdańsk, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1947; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1260; and Munich, Bayerische…
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Aprendre a escriure amb Ciceró: un exemple de pràctica epistolar del segle xv // Learning to Write with Cicero: An Example of Fifteenth-Century Epistolary Practice
Among the manuscripts from the archive of the Hospital de la Santa Creu held in the Biblioteca de Catalunya, volume AH 952/10 contains a copy of documents related to the executorship of Estefania Carròs i de Mur, who died in Barcelona in 1511. At the end of the fifteenth century, someone wrote a…
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Una mención oculta de la historia de Flores y Blancaflor en el «Poema de Alfonso Onceno» // A Hidden Allusion to the Story of Floire and Blancheflor in the "Poema de Alfonso Onceno"
The Poema de Alfonso Onceno (1348), which recounts the life and exploits of King Alfonso XI of Castile, contains several comparisons of participants in the Battle of Río Salado (1340) to Carolingian heroes. Among them, there is a mysterious reference to a “King Fieles” of “Anglia” that does not…
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En el origen y la difusión europea del Te Lutherum damnamus, parodia antiluterana de la primera mitad del siglo XVI // The Origin and European Dissemination of Te Lutherum damnamus, an Anti-Lutheran Parody from the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
This paper traces the history of an anti-Lutheran parody of the Te Deum laudamus hymn, which could have been composed a few years before 1530, probably in Italy, and which had a wide diffusion throughout Europe. A hitherto unknown testimony, preserved in the Archivo Municipal de Burgos, is…
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Anotaciones marginales a un poema de Antonio de Nebrija // Marginalia to a Poem by Antonio de Nebrija
This paper examines Latin marginalia found in an elegiac poem composed by Antonio de Nebrija as a paratext to his edition of Prudentius, printed by Arnao Guillén de Brocar (Logroño, 1512). Additionally, this paper aims to make known a valuable copy of the edition that is kept in the Biblioteca…
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¿Una Dafne mirrina? Apuntes para una trama textual ovidiana hoy perdida // A Myrrhy Daphne? Notes on a Lost Ovidian Textual Weft
This article compares three passages of two Catalan recreations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses dating to the fifteenth century: the translation Transformacions by Francesc Alegre and the Lamentacions by Joan Roís de Corella. Our comparison allows us to propose the hypothetical reconstruction of a third…
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Tres cartas del príncipe Baltasar Carlos a Sor María de Ágreda // Three Letters from Prince Baltasar Carlos to Sor María de Ágreda
The letters examined in this note are three of the few known documents signed by Prince Baltasar Carlos during his short life (1629–1646). Like the other members of his family, the Prince corresponded with the well-known nun Sor María de Ágreda; however, only his letters remain. These are important…
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The Hand of Luis Pedrol in Madrid, BNE, MS 2985
This note identifies the hand of Luis Pedrol in Barcelona, Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó, Col·leccions, Autògrafs, II, A, 14 with two of the scripts of Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, MS 2985.
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A Newly Discovered Fragmentary Troubadour Songbook (Barcelona, Arxiu de la Catedral, Miscel·lània, 23/1-12)
A previously unknown fragmentary songbook at the Archives of Barcelona Cathedral (Barcelona, Arxiu de la Catedral, Miscel·lània, 23/1-12) transmits 17 troubadour poems, mainly the work of Peire Cardenal. The provenance is still to be ascertained but it could well have been in the ACB since the…
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A Prosified Alexandreis with Catalan Glosses: Notes on Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública, MS 13
Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública, MS 13 deserves special attention among the codices of Catalan origin that contain Gautier de Châtillon’s Alexandreis because it transmits a prosified version of the poem in which syntax is rearranged to conform to grammatical order and because some of its dense…
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Cornielis (alias Cornejo): A Coda to the Case of María Pizarro and Francisco de la Cruz in Sixteenth-century Lima
This note offers a transcription of the proceso de fe of Cornielis (alias Diego Cornejo), an enslaved Black man held by the Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Lima in the 1570s. It is housed in the Archivo Histórico Nacional in Madrid, Spain. The inquest was opened in Cuzco in 1577, alleging…
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A Rare Edition of Angelo Poliziano’s Nutricia
The purpose of this note is to draw scholars’ attention to a little-known edition of Angelo Poliziano’s Nutricia (Leipzig, 1517). One of the only two surviving copies of the volume (Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, 76, 39) contains annotations which constitute indisputable proof of how Poliziano’s…
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Cornielis (alias Cornejo): A Coda to the Case of Maria Pizarro and Francisco de la Cruz in Sixteenth-century Lima
This note offers a transcription of the proceso de fe of Cornielis (alias Diego Cornejo), an enslaved Black man held by the Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Lima in the 1570s. It is housed in the Archivo Histórico Nacional in Madrid, Spain. The inquest was opened in Cuzco in 1577, alleging…
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Sobre la traducció catalana de la Tabulatio et expositio Senecae de Luca Mannelli // On the Catalan Translation of Luca Mannelli's Tabulatio et Expositio Senecae
This article studies the medieval Catalan translation of the Latin work Tabulatio et Expositio Senecae by Dominican friar Luca Mannelli, which was composed around 1350 with fragments of Seneca’s works. The anonymous Catalan translation, preserved in a single fifteenth-century manuscript (Barcelona…
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El Libro de las tres razones, obra «estoriada» // The Libro de las tres razones, a Historiated Work
This article offers a typology of the five different kinds of lacunae present in Manuscript 6376 at the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid, which contains most of the works of Juan Manuel. This article identifies the kinds of lacunae affecting the Libro de las tres razones and suggests that…
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Rosae sub signo, anotaciones a un símil clásico // Rosae sub signo, Notes on a Classical Simile
In the Western tradition, the flower is often imbued of symbolic meaning and associated with beauty, love, and sensuality. This note studies a string of literary relations that can be established around a floral image in the poetry of four Renaissance authors (Pontano, D’Ardenne, Salmon Macrin…