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Per Leggere I Generi Della Lettura PER LEGGERE I GENERI DELLA LETTURA ANNO XV , NUMERO 29, AUTUNNO 2015 PER LEGGERE I generi della lettura Rivista semestrale di commenti, letture e edizioni di testi della letteratura italiana www.rivistaperleggere.it Direzione ISABELLA BECHERUCCI , S IMONE GIUSTI , F RANCESCA LATINI ROBERTO LEPORATTI , N ATASCIA TONELLI Redazione CARLO ANNELLI , S IMONETTA PENSA CARLA PENSA , S IMONETTA TEUCCI Editing e stampa PENSA MULTI MEDIA EDITORE 73100 Lecce - Via A. M. Caprioli 8 25038 Rovato (Bs) - Via C. Cantù, 25 tel. 0832.230435 - tel. 030.5310994 [email protected] www.pensamultimedia.it Realizzata in collaborazione con l’associazione L’altra Città Iscrizione n. 783 dell’8 febbraio 2002 Registro della stampa del Tribunale di Lecce Direttore responsabile SILVERIO NOVELLI ISSN 1593-4861 (print) ISSN 2279-7513 (on line) © Pensa MultiMedia 2015 Finito di stampare nel mese di ottobre 2015 Comitato scientifico ROBERTO ANTONELLI (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”), JOHANNES BARTUSCHAT (Università di Zurigo), FRANCESCO BAUSI (Università della Calabria), FRANCO BUFFONI (IULM di Milano), STEFANO CARRAI (Università degli Studi di Siena), MASSIMO CIAVOLELLA (UCLA), ROBERTO FEDI (Università per Stranieri di Pe - rugia), PIERANTONIO FRARE (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), MA- RINA FRATNIK (Università di Parigi VIII), PAOLO GIOVANNETTI (IULM di Milano), ALESSANDRO MARIANI (Università degli Studi di Firenze), MARTIN MCLAUGHLIN (Università di Oxford), EMILIO PASQUINI (Università degli Studi di Bologna), FRAN - CISCO RICO (Università Autonoma di Barcellona), PIOTR SALWA (Università di Varsa - via), GIULIANO TANTURLI (Università degli Studi di Firenze), TIZIANO ZANATO (Uni - versità degli Studi di Venezia). Lettura e valutazione degli articoli (Open Peer Review) La rivista “Per leggere” riceve e valuta commenti, letture ( lectiones ) e edizioni critiche di testi della tradizione letteraria. Gli articoli, che devono rispettare le norme redazio - nali pubblicate sul sito www.rivistaperleggere.it , sono inviati in formato elettronico all’in - dirizzo della redazione e vengono sottoposti a una prima valutazione da parte della di - rezione, che provvede a recapitarli in forma anonima a due revisori, i quali sono invi - tati a fornire un parere scritto accompagnato da eventuali suggerimenti di modifiche o approfondimenti. In caso di parere divergente, la direzione individua un terzo revi - sore al quale sottoporre l’articolo. Sulla base del parere dei revisori, l’articolo può essere accettato senza riserve, accettato a condizione che l’autore lo sottoponga a modifiche, oppure respinto. I revisori sono individuati dalla direzione tra i membri del comitato scientifico o tra esper - ti esterni. I nominativi dei revisori sono resi noti alla fine di ciascuna annata. Una volta accettato, l’articolo viene trasmesso alla redazione, che provvede a comunicare all’autore il numero del fascicolo in cui sarà pubblicato. Gli autori degli articoli sono infine invitati a consegnare in allegato al testo definitivo l’e - lenco dei nomi, l’eventuale indice dei manoscritti citati, l’ abstract dell’articolo in lingua ita - liana e inglese. * Per i numeri 28 e 29 sono stati revisori, secondo la formula del ‘doppio cieco’, Car - lo Caruso, Alessio Decaria, Giovanna Scianatico e Carlo Vecce. SOMMARIO 7ENRICO FENZI Sull’ordine di tempi e vicende nel Bucolicum carmen di Petrarca On time and the order of events in Petrarch’s Bucolicum carmen 25 ROSANGELA FANARA Per il commento ai Sonetti et canzoni di I. Sannazaro. (Lettura dei sonetti 1-3) For the commentary on I. Sannazaro’s Sonetti et canzoni . (A reading of sonnets 1-3) 51 MAURO BIGNAMINI Sul sonetto Ombra ferita… di Giovanni Raboni: allusività metrica e altre agnizioni di lettura On the sonnet “Ombra ferita…” by Giovanni Raboni: metrical allusiveness and other referential elements 69 FRANCESCA LATINI Commento a Miracoli di Fernando Bandini Commentary on Fernando Bandini’s Miracoli DIALOGHI 109 ISABELLA BECHERUCCI La collaborazione di Ermes Visconti alla tragedia del Conte di Carmagnola Ermes Visconti’s cooperation on Manzoni’s first tragedy INTORNO AL TESTO 143 GIUSEPPE MARRANI Miscellaneous manuscripts: the Case of the Italian Medieval Lyric Tradition 151 FRANCESCA FLORIMBII Fra le carte di un traduttore: Petrarca e le Senili di Giuseppe Fracassetti Among a translator’s papers: Petrarch and Giuseppe Fracassetti’s Senili © PENSA MULTI MEDIA s.r.l. PER LEGGERE , XV , N. 29, AUTUNNO 2015 ISSN 1593-4861 ( PRINT ) - ISSN 2279-7513 ( ON LINE ) CRONACHE 167 ENRICO FENZI A proposito di una recente edizione del ‘libro delle canzoni’ di Dante 181 EDIZIONI E COMMENTI : E. Tatasciore, Di ombre e cose salde. Studio su Mon - tale [F. Ippoliti]; E. Montale, Quaderno di quattro anni , a cura di A. Berto - ni e G.M. Gallerani [F. Ippoliti]; F. Fortini, Tutte le poesie , a cura di L. Len - zini [F. Ippoliti]; M. De Angelis, «Intervallo e fine». Commento a una sezio - ne di Somiglianze ( 1976) , a cura di F. Jermini [M. Villa]; G. Alvino, Scrit - ti diversi e dispersi (2000-2014) [A. Mastropasqua] 193 SCUOLA E UNIVERSITÀ : P. Italia, Editing Novecento [G. Giubbolini]; C. Ruozzi, Raccontare la scuola. Testi, autori e forme del secondo Novecento [M.R. Tabellini]; C. Crocco, La poesia italiana del Novecento. Il canone e le interpretazioni [R. Castellana]; Identità/diversità , Siena 4-5 dicembre 2012 [I. Tani]; Io son venuto al punto della rota , Pianconvento 14-17 luglio 2015 [S. Teucci] 203 Indice dei nomi 209 Indice dei manoscritti ENRICO FENZI Sull’ordine di tempi e vicende nel Bucolicum carmen di Petrarca ___________ On time and the order of events in Petrarch’s Bucolicum carmen ABSTRACT Il saggio intende dimostrare che le dodici egloghe del Bucolicum carmen di Pe - trarca hanno un preciso ordine sia dal punto di vista cronologico che da quello del contenuto, e rappresentano una sorta di autobiografia poetica della prima metà della vita del loro autore. This essay attempts to show that the twelve eclogues of Petrarch’s Bucolicum Car - men are ordered in a precise manner in terms of both chronology and content, and represent a kind of poetic autobiography of the first half of the author’s life. © PENSA MULTI MEDIA s.r.l. PER LEGGERE , XV , N. 29, AUTUNNO 2015 ISSN 1593-4861 ( PRINT ) - ISSN 2279-7513 ( ON LINE ) 8 ENRICO FENZI Sull’ordine di tempi e vicende nel Bucolicum carmen di Petrarca A Milano, nel 1358, Petrarca completò la trascrizione di suo pugno delle dodici egloghe che compongono il Bucolicum carmen , composte nel corso del triennio 1346-1349, in quello che oggi è il codice Vaticano lat. 3358 che al f. 49r, poco sotto l’ultimo verso dell’egloga 12, porta l’ explicit : «Bucolicum car - men meum explicit, quod ipse qui ante annos dictaveram scripsi manu propria apud Mediolanum anno huius etatis ultime 1357». Oltre a una serie di mino - ri correzioni rispetto alla versione originale gamma , testimoniata in particolare dai due manoscritti: Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli VIII G 7, e Biblioteca Me - dicea Laurenziana di Firenze, Acquisti e Doni 280, l’autografo vaticano inglo - ba un aggiornamento assai recente, dal momento che i versi finali dell’egloga 12, Conflictatio , dedicata all’inizio della guerra dei Cento anni e alla sconfitta francese a Crécy nell’agosto del 1346, alludono chiaramente all’altra sconfitta francese, quella di Poitiers del settembre 1356, quando il re francese Giovanni il Buono fu catturato dagli Inglesi e portato prigioniero a Londra. Successiva - mente Petrarca tornò ancora sul suo testo, nel 1359, nel 1361 e nel 1366, in genere per operarvi piccoli interventi, salvo il caso rilevante dell’egloga 10, Laurea occidens , arricchita di circa ottanta versi 1. Ma nell’ottobre del ’66, scri - vendo al Boccaccio, egli mostra di aver definitivamente licenziato l’opera e di non volervi più tornare ( Fam . XXXIII, 19, 16). 1. Una volta fissati questi pochi dati essenziali, debbo dire che in questo mio intervento non mi fermerò né sui problemi del testo nei passaggi che van - no dal testo gamma a quello definitivo, né sulla composizione delle singole egloghe, ma mi fermerò su una questione più generale. Il ‘libro’ intitolato Bu - colicum carmen ha un ordine interno, una struttura unitaria alla quale la succes - sione delle dodici egloghe è sottoposta, come il titolo medesimo farebbe pen - sare? e tale struttura, ammesso che esista, è una struttura leggera affidata a sem - plici elementi di raccordo tra testo e testo, oppure arriva a definire una unità superiore che sovradetermina il senso e la direzione dei suoi singoli segmenti? Una via di questo genere è stata percorsa da Jean-Louis Charlet nel 2004, nel saggio L’architecture du Bucolicum carmen de Pétrarque , e sulla sua proposta è necessario soffermarsi 2. Dopo aver riassunto il contenuto di ogni egloga, os - servando che «le titre au singulier Bucolicum carmen incite à chercher pour ces douze poèmes une organisation d’ensemble» (p. 37), Charlet osserva che lo sdoppiamento di un’unica egloga originaria nelle due 6 e 7, Pastorium pathos e Grex infectus et suffectus , «semble une indication pour chercher une composition concentrique ou ‘en amande’, comme dans la littérature alexandrine». Ed è ap - punto una organizzazione concentrica che egli cerca di mettere in evidenza, cominciando con l’aggregare l’egloga 5, Pietas pastoralis , dedicata all’impresa di SULL ’ORDINE NEL BUCOLICUM CARMEN 9 Cola, alle due 6 e 7, perché tutte insieme queste tre rappresentano «le rêve po - litique d’une Rome libre et restaurée selon les intentions de Cola di Rienzo, avec au centre, en repoussoir, l’indigne papauté d’Avignon» (p. 38). In breve: la prima egloga, Parthenias , corrisponderebbe all’ultima, Conflictatio (dedicata, co - me s’è detto, alla guerra dei Cento anni): «La conclusion de cette dernière églogue montre qu’en réalité rien n’est assuré dans les choses humaines et donc qu’il n’est point d’espérance en dehors de Dieu. La dernière églogue constitue la réponse humaine au choix humain de la première et montre que la vraie solution des conflits intérieurs (1) ou militaires (12), est en Dieu» (p.
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