Abstract
The seeming opposition between local and mobile texts has guided, in sometimes inadvertent ways, our methods for editing works often defined by the notion of fixity — of lectiones and/or material structures — or its absence. This essay investigates two examples of the interplay between remarkably fixed local options and the mobility of textual transmission: Raimbaut de Vaqueiras’s parodic, bilingual debate poem Domna, tant vos ai preiada and Francesco Petrarca’s ballata Donna mi vene spesso ne la mente and his madrigal Or vedi, Amor, che giovenetta donna, both of which are emblematic of compositional and compilational strategies in the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.
Highlights
Oppositional definitions often establish dynamics upon which we build our seemingly most careful editorial arguments
Wayne Storey : Mobile Texts and Local Options: Geography and Editing | 7 early stay in Bologna in order to match the sonnet’s attribution to him in a later and revered manuscript produced in mid-fourteenth-century Florence
When we reflect upon the fact that well over half of the surviving chansonniers of Old Occitan poetry performed at the eleventh- and twelfth-century courts of southern France were copied in northern Italy between the mid-thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, we see even more clearly the complex roles of geography and mobility in the transmission of textual cultures
Summary
Oppositional definitions often establish dynamics upon which we build our seemingly most careful editorial arguments. In truth this change after the final rubrication of the fair copy portion of the manuscript will create a significant textual fracture in the macrotext’s construction that will leave subsequent copyists and fifteenth-century editors and compositors in doubt as to the treatment not just of the ballata and the madrigal that replaces it, but even about what poems belong to this section of the Fragmenta.
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