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Parolerubate Rizzi 2021.Pdf Rivista semestrale online / Biannual online journal http://www.parolerubate.unipr.it Fascicolo n. 23 / Issue no. 23 Giugno 2021 / June 2021 Direttore / Editor Rinaldo Rinaldi (Università di Parma) Comitato scientifico / Research Committee Mariolina Bongiovanni Bertini (Università di Parma) Dominique Budor (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III) Corrado Confalonieri (Harvard University) Roberto Greci (Università di Parma) Heinz Hofmann (Universität Tübingen) Bert W. Meijer (Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Instituut Firenze / Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht) María de las Nieves Muñiz Muñiz (Universitat de Barcelona) Diego Saglia (Università di Parma) Francesco Spera (Università Statale di Milano) Segreteria di redazione / Editorial Staff Maria Elena Capitani (Università di Parma) Francesco Gallina (Università di Parma) Arianna Giardini (Università Statale di Milano) Chiara Rolli (Università di Parma) Esperti esterni (fascicolo n. 23) / External referees (issue no. 23) Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) Clizia Carminati (Università di Bergamo) Laura Facini (Université de Genève) Francesco Ferretti (Università di Bologna) Emiliano Ricciardi (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Christian Rivoletti (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen – Nürnberg) Franco Tomasi (Università di Padova) Francesco Zucconi (Università IUAV – Venezia) Progetto grafico / Graphic design Jelena Radojev (Università di Parma) † Direttore responsabile: Nicola Catelli Autorizzazione Tribunale di Parma n. 14 del 27 maggio 2010 © Copyright 2021 – ISSN: 2039-0114 INDEX / CONTENTS Speciale BOIARDO SCONFINATO. CITAZIONI EPICHE, LIRICHE E STORICHE DALLE FONTI CLASSICHE AGLI ADATTAMENTI NOVECENTESCHI a cura di Jo Ann Cavallo e Corrado Confalonieri Presentazione 3-9 Boundless Boiardo. The Sources of ‘Meraviglia’ from the Renaissance to the Classics CHARLES S. ROSS (Purdue University) 11-25 “Forsi il mio dir torreti a maraviglia”: modalità citazionali negli “Amorum libri” TIZIANO ZANATO (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) 27-53 Translating the Crusades. William of Tyre and Matteo Maria Boiardo ANDREA RIZZI (University of Melbourne) 55-71 “Una donzella cantava de amore”. Boiardo lirico nella musica vocale tra Rinascimento e Novecento EUGENIO REFINI (New York University) 73-95 Rami d’oro e colonne di cristallo. Traduzioni figurative da “L’inamoramento de Orlando” FEDERICA CANEPARO (University of Chicago) 97-116 “Il più bel fior”: Interweaving Genres in Boiardo’s “Orlando Innamorato” and Moderata Fonte’s “Floridoro” TYLAR ANN COLLELUORI (Columbia University) 117-133 Boiardo’s Eastern Protagonists in Giusto Lodico’s “Storia dei Paladini di Francia” JO ANN CAVALLO (Columbia University) 135-164 Quoting the “Orlando Innamorato” to Mussolini: Alfredo Panzini and Fascist Re-uses of Boiardo ALESSANDRO GIAMMEI (Bryn Mawr College) 165-188 MATERIALI / MATERIALS Riscrivere una leggenda. I Sette Sapienti e l’“Apologia di Socrate” GIULIA SARA CORSINO (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) 191-206 Sidonio Apollinare e i suoi modelli. Un mosaico letterario e le conquiste orientali di Roma FRANCESCO MONTONE (Università di Napoli Federico II) 207-222 Citazioni in cornice. Autori visibili e autori invisibili nel novelliere di Niccolò Granucci FLAVIA PALMA (Università di Verona) 223-237 “Predando ora uno or altro fiore”. Schede latine per furti volgari DAVIDE PUCCINI (Firenze) 239-249 Parole wordsworthiane. George Eliot e la “rational sympathy” MICHELA MARRONI (Università della Tuscia) 251-264 Parole Rubate / Purloined Letters http://www.parolerubate.unipr.it Fascicolo n. 23 / Issue no. 23 – Giugno 2021 / June 2021 ANDREA RIZZI TRANSLATING THE CRUSADES. WILLIAM OF TYRE AND MATTEO MARIA BOIARDO This article considers Matteo Maria Boiardo’s contribution to the vernacular appropriation and transmission of William of Tyre’s late twelfth-century Chronicon in Renaissance Italy. It takes a necessarily long view of the source for Boiardo’s digression on the Crusades in his translation of the Historia Imperiale. Such a view allows us to better understand the intricate, multi-lingual, and surprising textual heritage essential to his translation. In Italy and Europe, interest in the Crusades persisted during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Despite the losses of Crusader holdings in Antioch in 1268, Acre in 1297, Constantinople in 1453, and Negroponte in 1470, preachers and historians continued to promote the expeditions to the East undertaken during the 1450s and 1460s. They also continued to stir crusading sentiments amongst their audiences.1 Such sentiments were kept 1 There is a recent and growing literature on crusades and their reception between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. See N. Ben-Aryeh Debby, Crusade 56 Parole Rubate / Purloined Letters alive through three different types of texts: the sermons of preachers such as Bernardino da Siena and Michele Carcano of Milan, which strongly advocated the need for more crusading in the East; pilgrims’ books, which attracted the interest of pious and travel-oriented readers who were seeking up-to-date information on geography, itineraries, customs, accommodation; histories, which served to rekindle the memory of the success of the First Crusade, or to expose the cruelty and violence of the infidels. In this case, the category ‘histories’ does not refer solely to more or less historical texts, but also literature and pseudo-epics, such as the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland, or Li Fet Des Romains (1213-1214). The inventories of ducal libraries in fifteenth-century Ferrara and Mantua indicate without doubt the relevance accorded to French, franco-provençal, and vernacular poems and stories of the Crusades. Propaganda in Word and Image in Early Modern Italy: Niccolò Guidalotto’s Panorama of Constantinople (1662), in “Renaissance Quarterly”, 67, 2014, pp. 503-543; J. A. Cavallo, The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013; Id., Nur ad-Din to Norandino: The Middle East in Boiardo’s “Orlando Innamorato”, in GlobalPerspectives on Italian Literature, Cinema, and Culture, edited by T. Riviello, Salerno, Edisud, 2012, pp. 17-33; Writing the Early Crusades: Text, and Memory, edited by M. Bull and D. Kempf, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2014; P. E. Chevedden, Crusade Creationism ‘versus’ Pope Urban II’s Conceptualization of the Crusades, in “The Historian”, 75, 2013, pp. 1-46; F. delle Donne, Tradizioni testuali e (ri)scrittura della storia: Il caso del “Breve chronicon de rebus Siculis”,in “Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken”, 96, 2017, pp. 174-190; N. R. Hodgson, Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2007; Crusading in the Fifteenth Century: Message and Impact, edited by N. Housley, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; N. S. Lambert, Reframing the Crusade in the Piccolomini Library: Pinturicchio’s “Standing Turk” in Siena Cathedral, 1502–1508, in The Crusades and Visual Culture, edited by E. Lapina, A. Jehan Morris, S. A. Throop, L. J. Whatley, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015, pp. 223-240; T. F. Madden, The Venetian Version of the Fourth Crusade: Memory and the Conquest of Constantinople in Medieval Venice, in “Speculum”, 87, 2012, pp. 311-344, and A. Moudarres, Crusade and Conversion: Islam as Schism in Pius II and Nicholas of Cusa, in “Modern Language Notes”, 128, 2013, pp. 40-52. I wish to thank Cynthia Troup for her invaluable suggestions while drafting this work. Andrea Rizzi, Translating the Crusades. William of Tyre and Matteo M. Boiardo 57 The first and second types of texts – the sermons and travel writing about pilgrimages – have received plenty of scholarly attention in the last few decades.2 By contrast, much less consideration has been given to the Italian reception and transmission of historical and literary writings on Crusades over the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. To be fair, an overview of Humanistic literature on the Crusades can demonstrate how humanists – from Petrarch to Benedetto Accolti – promoted the political cause of a new Crusade before Italian princes and rulers such as Federico da Montefeltro, Borso d’Este, Francesco Sforza, and Doge of Venice Cristoforo Moro.3 Most of the texts that the humanists produced in this vein are orations, poems, dialogues, and short essays. Still needed, however, is a thorough study of the vernacularisation of Crusade histories in the Italian peninsula. Of course, as both practice and process vernacularisation tended to involve creative appropriation as well as quotation. Yet very little is known about which specific texts concerning the Crusades were translated and circulated amongst Italian medieval and early modern chroniclers and historians. Such circulation has merely been acknowledged in contemporary scholars’ passing remarks about the use of a principal Latin source for the history of the first two Crusades, William of Tyre’s late twelfth-century Chronicon. In mentioning this Latin source, scholars agree that William of Tyre’s work and its continuations circulated widely.4 They also imply that, where the Chronicon was known, such 2 See F. Cardini, In Terrasanta. Pellegrini italiani tra Medioevo e prima età moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002, p. 194. 3 See R. Black, Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985. 4 See, notably, F. Cardini, In Terrasanta. Pellegrini italiani tra Medioevo e prima età moderna, cit., p. 194, and B. Deen Schildgen, Dante and the Orient, Urbana and Chicago,
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