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REVIEWS: Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text. Sarah McNamer, ed. and trans. The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature 14. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. clxxx + 264 pp. $65

Martinez, Ronald L

Renaissance Quarterly, 2019, Vol.72 (3), p.1126-1127 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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  • Título:
    REVIEWS: Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text. Sarah McNamer, ed. and trans. The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature 14. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. clxxx + 264 pp. $65
  • Autor: Martinez, Ronald L
  • Assuntos: Debates ; Italian language ; Italian literature ; Language history ; Latin language ; Literary translation ; Medieval literature ; Nuns ; Romance literature ; Writers
  • É parte de: Renaissance Quarterly, 2019, Vol.72 (3), p.1126-1127
  • Descrição: [...]the subsequent versions—including a vernacular testo minore (prologue and forty-one chapters) and testo maggiore (prologue and ninety-four chapters), along with the subsequent standard Latin text (MVC), including a prologue and 108 chapters, probably composed after 1325 and before about 1340—are all attributed by McNamer to author B, a Franciscan friar of still-uncertain identity, and significantly edit the testo breve. McNamer's edition of the testo breve includes a critical edition, English translation, commentary, glossary, linguistic analysis, and a nearly book-length introduction (pages xvii–clxxviii) laying out the main issues of debate. Whatever the outcome of the debates, which with the present volume would seem now to tilt in favor McNamer's hypotheses, her multifaceted approach is a model of what a thorough and up-to-date scholarly argument in medieval studies should look like, and can be held up as an example for students in training.
  • Editor: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês

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