In memoriam Federico Corriente (14.XI.1940–16.VI.2020)

In memoriam Federico Corriente (14.XI.1940–16.VI.2020).

Aristotle Redivivus and His Alter-Egos

Review article of: Eva Del Soldato, Early Modern Aristotle. On the Making and Unmaking of Authority, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2020.

In memoriam Miguel Cruz Hernández (15.I.1920–25.V.2020)

In memoriam Miguel Cruz Hernández (15.I.1920–25.V.2020).

MS Paris, Bibliothèque des Missions étrangères 1069: The French-Arabic Dictionary of François Pétis de la Croix (1653-1713)?

This paper analyses an anonymous French-Arabic dictionary preserved in Paris, Bibliothèque des Missions étrangères. I argue that it seems to be a copy of a dictionary compiled by the early modern French Orientalist and diplomat François Pétis de la Croix, the younger. Beyond the question of authorship, I survey the themes and structure of the dictionary and discuss the compiler’s cultural insights into Ottoman and Safavid societies and the cultural barriers that his translations reveal.

Cantos, Carte, and Columns: A Hypothesis Concerning the Original Mise-en-page of Dante’s Comedy

John Ahern conjectures that, in writing out the first copies of the Comedy, Dante wrote on pages formatted for four 36-line columns, with two columns on each side of the page, and he assigned one page to each of the 100 cantos. Building on Ahern’s conjecture, the article suggests that Dante had a standard method of distributing the lines of a canto over the four columns. After describing the method, the article argues that Dante sometimes adapted his composition of a canto to the four-column page format, and that traces of this adaptation can be discerned in certain passages of the Comedy.

La tradizione letteraria sulla prostituzione sacra a Locri Epizefiri: i due voti del 477 e del 351–346 a.C.

La tradizione letteraria sulla prostituzione sacra a Locri Epizefiri ha dato luogo ad un vivace dibattito che ha coinvolto illustri storici moderni: alcuni hanno sostenuto l’esistenza di questa forma di ierodulia, interpretando in chiave religiosa le testimonianze degli antichi, altri hanno negato che tale pratica fosse presente a Locri, evidenziando il carattere generale e, a volte contraddittorio, della documentazione. Sulla base di un’attenta analisi delle fonti letterarie, supportata dagli scavi archeologici, condotti nell’area sacra di Centocamere-Marasà di Locri, è possibile ipotizzare non solo una presenza abituale della prostituzione sacra, che coinvolgeva gli strati più bassi della popolazione, ma anche l’attuazione dei due voti di prostituzione, che furono pronunciati nel 477 e negli anni 351-346 a.C. e che interessarono le donne dell’aristocrazia.

David Hamidovič, Claire Clivaz, Sarah Bowen Savant (eds.), in coll. with Alessandra Marguerat, Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture. Visualization, Data Mining, Communication, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2019 (Digital Biblical Studies, 3), PP. XVI + 28

Review of: David Hamidovič, Claire Clivaz, Sarah Bowen Savant (eds.), in coll. with Alessandra Marguerat, Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture. Visualization, Data Mining, Communication, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2019 (Digital Biblical Studies, 3), PP. XVI + 28

In memoriam Franco Cordero (6.VIII.1928–8.V.2020)

In memoriam Franco Cordero (6.VIII.1928–8.V.2020).

Michel Scot, Liber Particularis, Liber Physonomie, Ed. Oleg Voskoboynikov, SISMEL–Edizioni Del Galluzzo, Firenze 2019 (Micrologus Library, 93), PP. VIII + 416, ISBN 9788884509062

Review of: Michel Scot, Liber Particularis, Liber Physonomie, Ed. Oleg Voskoboynikov, SISMEL–Edizioni Del Galluzzo, Firenze 2019 (Micrologus Library, 93), PP. VIII + 416, ISBN 9788884509062

In memoriam Helena Avelar de Carvalho (17.IX.1964–9.III.2021)

In memoriam Helena Avelar de Carvalho (17.IX.1964–9.III.2021).