Limina. Intorno al testo (2024-1/2)

Limina. Intorno al testo (2024-1/2)

The first issue of this journal is entirely devoted to the PRIN LiMINA project, which investigates the reading practices and circulation of the manuscripts of the antica vulgata of Dante’s Commedia.

I. Saggi.
The research developed within this project has contributed to defining the object of study and to expanding its potential hermeneutic and methodological implications. The collected essays allow readers to discern several productive interpretations of the concept of limina—extended to exegetical apparatuses in the essays by Luca Azzetta and Giuseppe Alvino, and to the figurative tradition, as demonstrated by Federica Maria Giallombardo. They also present significant findings on modes of manuscript production (through the case discussed by Valeria De Fraja) and on commentary traditions (with Raffaele Caliendo addressing the emblematic Chiose Cassinesi and Francesco Donato focusing on the Chiose Cagliaritane).

II. Notizie dai manoscritti e dalle stampe (Notes from Manuscripts and Early Prints).
The notes on the liminary apparatuses of individual codices (examined for Ars. 8530 by Serena Malatesta and for Fior. II I 39 by Raffaele Vitolo) or of small, homogeneous groups (as in the case of the manuscripts from Pal’s workshop discussed by Beatrice Mosca) provide opportunities to reflect on the phenomenological diversity of limina and on the multiple functions they fulfill in the study of cultural history.

III. Schede bibliografiche.
The bibliographical notes present two books that address, from different perspectives, the theme of the philology of images, in dialogue with the topics explored in this issue. Their form is deliberately neither that of a simple notice nor that of a conventional review.

We hope that the information and reflections offered on the themes selected from issue to issue will help keep the community of readers informed and actively engaged in scholarly debate.