The Arthur of the Italians

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This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner's 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.
Introduction F. Regina Psaki Part One France and Italy 1 Arthuriana in the Italian Regions of Medieval Francophonia Keith Busby 2 French Redactions in Italy: Rustichello da Pisa Fabrizio Cigni 3 From France to Italy: The Tristan Texts Marie-Jose Heijkant 4 The Italian Contribution: La Tavola Ritonda Daniela Delcorno Branca Part Two Arthurian Material in Italian Narrative Forms 5 Narrative Structure in Medieval Italian Arthurian Romance Stefano Mula 6 Arthurian Material in Italian Cantari Maria Bendinelli Predelli 7 Arthur as Renaissance Epic Eleanora Stoppino Part Three Arthur Beyond Romance 8 The Arthurian Presence in Early Italian Lyric Roberta Capelli 9 Arthur in Medieval Italian Short Narrative F. Regina Psaki 10 The Arthurian Tradition in the Three Crowns Christopher Kleinhenz Part Four Arthur Beyond Literature 11 Arthur in Hagiography: The San Galgano Legend Franco Cardini 12 Owners and Readers of Arthurian Books in Italy Gloria Allaire 13 Arthurian Art in Italy Gloria Allaire Reference List: Arthurian Art in Italy Gloria Allaire

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Italian
• European

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783160518
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE ARTHUR OF THE ITALIANSARTHURIAN LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
VII
THE ARTHUR OF
THE ITALIANS
THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN MEDIEVAL ITALIAN
LITERATURE AND CULTURE
edited by
Gloria Allaire and F. Regina Psaki
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Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, WiltshirePUBLISHED IN COOPERATION WITH
THE VINAVER TRUST
The Vinaver Trust was established by the British Branch
of the International Arthurian Society to commemorate a
greatly respected colleague and a distinguished scholar
Eugène Vinaver
the editor of Malory’s Morte Darthur. The Trust aims to
advance study of Arthurian literature in all languages by







and by aiding publication of the resultant studies.ARTHURIAN LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Series Editor
Ad Putter
I The Arthur of the Welsh, Edited by Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman
and Brynley F. Roberts (Cardiff, 1991)
II The Arthur of the English, Edited by W. R. J. Barron (Cardiff, 1999)
III The Arthur of the Germans, Edited by W. H. Jackson and S. A.
Ranawake (Cardiff, 2000)
IV The Arthur of the French, Edited by Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt
(Cardiff, 2006)
V The Arthur of the North, Edited by Marianne E. Kalinke (Cardiff,
2011)
VI The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, Edited by Siân Echard
(Cardiff, 2011)
VII The Arthur of the Italians, Edited by Gloria Allaire and F. Regina
Psaki (Cardiff, 2014)CONTENTS
Preface ix
Ad Putter
The Contributors xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: The Arthur of the Italians 1
F. Regina Psaki
Part One
France and Italy
1 Arthuriana in the Italian Regions of Medieval Francophonia 11
Keith Busby
2 French Redactions in Italy: Rustichello da Pisa 21
Fabrizio Cigni
3 From France to Italy: The Tristan Texts 41
Marie- José Heijkant
4 The Italian Contribution: La Tavola Ritonda 69
Daniela Delcorno Branca
Part Two
Arthurian Material in Italian Narrative Forms
5 Narrative Structure in Medieval Italian Arthurian Romance 91
Stefano Mula
6 Arthurian Material in Italian Cantari 105
Maria Bendinelli Predelli
7 Arthur as Renaissance Epic 121
Eleonora Stoppinoviii THE ARTHUR OF THE ITALIANS
Part Three
Arthur beyond Romance
8 The Arthurian Presence in Early Italian Lyric 133
Roberta Capelli
9 Arthur in Medieval Italian Short Narrative 145
F. Regina Psaki
10 The Arthurian Tradition in the Three Crowns 158
Christopher Kleinhenz
Part Four
Arthur beyond Literature
11 Arthur in Hagiography: The Legend of San Galgano 179
Franco Cardini
12 Owners and Readers of Arthurian Books in Italy 190
Gloria Allaire
13 Arthurian Art in Italy 205
Gloria Allaire
14 Arthurian Art References 233
Gloria Allaire
Bibliography: Primary Texts 247
Gloria AllaireStudies 254
Gloria Allaire
Index of Manuscripts 281
General Index 284PREFACE
This book forms part of the ongoing series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages.
The purpose of the series is to provide a comprehensive and reliable survey of
Arthurian writings in all their cultural and generic variety. For many years, the
single- volume Arthur in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History (ed. R. S. Loomis,
Oxford, 1959) served the needs of students and scholars of Arthurian literature
admirably, but it has now been overtaken by advances in scholarship and by changes in
critical perspectives and methodologies. The Vinaver Trust recognized the need for a
fresh and up- to- date survey, and decided that several volumes were required to do
justice to the distinctive contributions made to Arthurian literature by the various cultures
of medieval Europe.
The series is mainly aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students and at







also been designed to be accessible to general readers and to students and scholars

the cultures that they do know. Within these parameters the editors have had control
over the shape and content of their individual volumes.
Ad Putter, University of Bristol
(General Editor)THE CONTRIBUTORS
Gloria Allaire is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kentucky. She is the
author of numerous articles and contributions on Italian manuscripts, chivalric epic
and romance. Her edited books include Il Tristano panciatichiano (2002) and The
Italian Novella (2003).
Daniela Delcorno Branca is full professor at the University of Bologna. She
specialises in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, in particular courtly literature (the
Tristan romances, the cantari, Boiardo and Ariosto) and Poliziano. Her scholarship
includes both editions and literary- historical criticism.
Keith Busby is Douglas Kelly Professor Emeritus of Medieval French at the University
of Wisconsin- Madison. He has published widely in several areas of Old French
literature, including Arthurian romance. His current work deals with the manuscript culture
of medieval Francophonia, from Ireland to the Levant.
Roberta Capelli teaches Romance languages and literatures at the University of Trent.
She focuses on medieval literature and medievalism in contemporary culture, from
Guittone d’Arezzo’s Del carnale amore (2007) to the troubadours of Ezra Pound in
Carte provenzali (2013).
Franco Cardini is Professor Emeritus at the University of Florence, a research director
in Paris and a fellow of Harvard University. His enormous research output has
concentrated on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, relations between Europe and the Muslim
world and the history of chivalry.
Fabrizio Cigni teaches Romance philology at the University of Pisa. He has
specialised in the textual tradition of Arthurian texts in Old French and Italian, particularly
around the Arthurian Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa. He is currently studying and
documenting the manuscripts produced in the prisons of Genoa–Pisa in the late
thirteenth century.
Marie- José Heijkant specialises in Italian Arthurian literature at the University of
Leiden. She has published extensively on the reception of the Tristan legend in Italy,
including La tradizione del Tristan en prose e proposte di studio sul Tristano
Riccardiano (1989). She has published editions of the Tristano Riccardiano (1991)
and the Tavola Ritonda (1997).xii THE ARTHUR OF THE ITALIANS
Christopher Kleinhenz is Professor Emeritus of Italian at the University of
Wisconsin- Madison. He has published widely on medieval Italian literature,
manuscript studies and the interrelationship of art and literature. Books include The Early
Italian Sonnet (1986), Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness (2006) and a translation
of The Fiore and the Detto d’Amore (2000).
Stefano Mula is Associate Professor of Italian at Middlebury College, Vermont. His
research focuses on medieval narrative structures and strategies, with particular
attention to the Tristan legend and Cistercian exempla. He has published various articles in


Maria Bendinelli Predelli is Professor Emerita at McGill University. Her research
focuses on medieval narrative, particularly the relationships between French and
Italian literature, and popular genres. Her work on the cantari includes I cantari:
Struttura e tradizione (1984), co- edited with Michelangelo Picone, and Alle origini
del Bel Gherardino (1990).
F. Regina Psaki is the Giustina Family Professor of Italian Language and Literature at
the University of Oregon. She has translated three medieval romances: Tristano
Riccardiano (2006), the Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole (1995) and the
Roman de Silence (1991). She also works on Dante, Boccaccio and medieval
misogyny.
Eleonora Stoppino is Associate Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature and
Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois. She publishes on Dante, medieval
conduct literature, Italian Arthuriana, Tasso and Ariosto, the subject of her Genealogies of
Fiction: Women Warriors and the Medieval Imagination in the Orlando
furioso (2012).ABBREVIATIONS
BAV Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
BBIAS Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society
BnF Bibliothèque Nationale, France
BNCF Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence
Cigni edn Il romanzo arturiano di Rustichello da Pisa, ed. F. Cigni (Pisa, 1994)
CN Cultura Neolatina
GSLI Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana
LI Lettere Italiane
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la Compilation de Rusticien de Pise: Analyse critique (1890; rpt 1970)
MR Medioevo Romanzo
PAL 556 Tavola Ritonda:

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Centrale, ed. Roberto Cardini (Rome, 2009)
Panc. Tristano Panciatichiano
Parola La parola del testo
PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
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