This paper proposes an excerpt of Bartolomeo da San Concordio’s commentary on the Poetria nova (vv. 1-263) on the basis of the two manuscripts that bequeath the work: the Casanatense 311 and the ms. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Osborn fa.6; the first one contains the exegetic text in its entirety, whereas the latter only the initial part. In this paper, the distinctive features of the commentary and the sources used by Bartolomeo are exposed. The potential similarities and relations with other ‘Italian’ coeval commentators of the Poetria nova – especially Guizzardo da Bologna – are examined in order to better define the cultural context in which Goffredo’s work was read and commented between the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries in Italy.
Miller, M. E. and B. E. Mundy (eds.; 2012), Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century. Land, Writing, and Native Rule, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Yale University Press, New Haven, 216 p., ISBN 978-0-300-18071-8
