The tradition of the Ad familiares and humanist culture: Coluccio Salutati, Niccolò Niccoli, Guarino, the Barzizzas

  • Giancarlo Reggi Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/10900

Abstract

The paper analyses the consequences of a collation error in the manuscript now in Florence, BML Plut. 49.9 (IX cent., M) and in its apograph BML Plut. 49.7 (1392, P) for humanist manuscripts (based on a sample of 82 codices out of c. 160 identified). M and P’s descendant humanistic manuscripts are divided into five branches, at the head of which are those of Coluccio Salutati (ς1), Niccolò Niccoli (ς2), Guarino Veronese (ς3), Gasparino Barzizza (ς4), and his son Guiniforte (ς4). Manuscripts in ς1 preserve the dislocation; manuscripts dated from the 1520s in ς2 rebuild book VIII; manuscripts in ς3 delete Caelius’ letters dislocated in book IX; manuscripts in ς4 delete all Caelius’s letters; manuscripts in ς5 move the letters dislocated at the bottom of book VIII. The latter solution is found also in the Milanese incunabula appearing before the Pachel-Scinzenzeler edition of 1480, an edition that conjectured a re-ordering of the letters. Finally, Poliziano (1489) referred
to the sequence of M. 

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Author Biography

Giancarlo Reggi, Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron

Giancarlo Reggi (reggi_gc@bluewin.ch), nato a Sorengo (Svizzera) nel 1948, dopo la Laurea in Lettere classiche conseguita all’Università Cattolica di Milano, ha insegnato latino e greco al Liceo cantonale di Bellinzona dal 1974 al 1977, poi, dal 1977 al 2013, al Liceo cantonale di Lugano 1. Studioso di filologia classica, i suoi interessi vertono principalmente su Cicerone e sulla storiografia greco-latina, con incursioni recenti nella filologia medioevale e umanistica, fino al latino delle scienze al tempo di Keplero e Galileo Galilei, nonché nella storia del libro e delle biblioteche. È membro scientifico della SIAC. Fa parte del consiglio
direttivo dell’Associazione Biblioteca Salita di Frati di Lugano, con responsabilità del periodico annuale «Fogli», rivista di bibliografia, bibliologia e storia del libro, biblioteconomia.

Published
2024-06-30
How to Cite
Reggi, G. (2024). The tradition of the Ad familiares and humanist culture: Coluccio Salutati, Niccolò Niccoli, Guarino, the Barzizzas. Ciceroniana On Line, 8(1), 27-84. https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/10900
Issue
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2024): CICERONIANA ON LINE 2023 VIII, 1
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Papers

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