2024 | Revues | Susanna Barsotti

This article aims to investigate some passages of poetological reflection within the Baldric of Bourgueil’s Carmina. The extracts reveal frequent references to the Horace’s Ars poetica, for example the labor limae, the prescription of sumere materiam and the equilibrium between ars and ingenium. These categories bring out the concept of rusticitas, dear to Balderico, that emerges, in particular, through images that refer to the semantic field of dryness, fasting and aridity. The study wants in particular to select loci where the dualism between the quality of the poetic word and that of the sentiment that animates it emerges, preparing a more systematic comparison with similar tendencies within occitan poetry. This bilateral relationship will have to be related, finally, to the reflections on the poetic word, which are maturing in the 12th century within the main philosophical schools (such as the centre of San Vittore).

Littérature (domaine médiéval, domaine moderne, autres domaines)

2024 | Revues | Susanna Barsotti

The aim of this article is to shed light on the relashionship between the manuscript N2, the collection compiled by Giulio Camillo in the XVIth century, and Pv, a XIII-XIVth century fragment, probably deriving from a Tuscan manuscript, both containing Raimbaut d’Aurenga’s rare vida. The texts contained in both are roughly similar, but Pv carries also the signature of the biographer Uc de Saint Circ. The presence of this vida in N2 and the manuscripts belonging to the Venetian group IK (k) is crucial to the understanding of the relationship between them. The article discusses textual variants, on he basis of which a new critical text is proposed.

Philologie

2024 | Revues | Susanna Barsotti

This work develops the relationship between Dante’s ‘petrose’ and the clus line of trobar and its main representatives. In the development of Dante’s composition technique we can observe moments of returns, retractions and overcoming of models: the mediation of Guittone as a filter for the formation of a canon of ‘uncomfortable troubadours’ is therefore essential to understand Dante’s debt to the previous tradition. The investigation also promotes Raimbaut d’Aurenga as an important troubadour within the line of development that will lead to Arnaut Daniel’s sestina and to Dante.

Littérature (domaine médiéval, domaine moderne, autres domaines)

2024 | Revues | Susanna Barsotti

La canzone Assatz m’es bel di Raimbaut d’Aurenga (BdT 389.17), è tramandata da manoscritti che si distribuiscono tra il ramo orientale e quello occidentale della tradizione. La permutazione delle parole-rima e la presenza di concetti in vario modo ribaditi tramite ripetizione di lemmi e giochi fonici – entro uno schema unico su coblas ternas – consente di individuare alcuni temi portanti messi in luce nella lettura che si propone. Il focus si concentra, in particolare, sulle prime tre stanze, dove Raimbaut esplicita le proprie ragioni in fatto di stile per difendersi dai detrattori e dove predomina, per via allusiva (ossia mediante riutilizzo di lessico e espressioni peculiari) il confronto – non sempre pacifico – con Marcabruno. Il discorso sullo stile e sull’opportunità di esprimere o meno i contenuti celati nel cuore delineano un campo di tensione dove emergono tracce di dialogo con Giraut de Borneill e con Bernart de Ventadorn. Interlocutori possibili e elementi stilistici vengono in aiuto per la ridiscussione della cronologia della canzone, composta probabilmente tra il 1170 e il 1171.

Édition de textes, Littérature (domaine médiéval, domaine moderne, autres domaines)

2024 | Revues | Susanna Barsotti

Aim of this article is to highlight the semantic evolution of the rhetorical module of opposita, a peculiar feature of the ancient and Mediolatine ‘enigma’. As is well known, it is handed down in the tradition up to the Occitanian devinalh and to a large variety of examples in the Italian poetry from the origins. Peculiar in this sense is the tendency, in love poetry, to re-semanticize this structure, no longer to facilitate the dissolution of a real question, but to emphasize the psychological behaviour of tormented love. The diachronic comparison between selected texts (including sonnet 134 of Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) is necessary to highlight elements of continuity and rupture towards the genre of the riddle, and to implicity question the textual category of devinalh.

Littérature (domaine médiéval, domaine moderne, autres domaines)