2025/11/30 by Giovanni Cascio · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies #Liber sine nomine #Olsztyn #Petrarch #Prussia #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity #Renaissance and Early Modern Studies #Textual Criticism #Textual Reworking #Warmia
paper · doi:10.7275/tl.3609
openalex publication_date 2025/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/12/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
This article examines a reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s Liber sine nomine transmitted in a group of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscripts of German provenance—namely, Gdańsk, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1947; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1260; and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 5354. The article brings to light the mechanisms of this rewriting—in which Italy and the principal Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch’s epistles Sine nomine are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia—as well as its likely ideological aims. The study also considers the possible origin of this textual reworking and the historical and cultural context in which it may be situated.