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{{Short description|Manuscript preserving the eleven comedies of Aristophanes}} |
{{Short description|Manuscript preserving the eleven comedies of Aristophanes}} |
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The Codex 429 of [[Ravenna]]’s [[Biblioteca Classense|Classense]] Library, attributed to the half of the [[tenth century]], is the most ancient [[medieval]] manuscript that preserves the eleven comedies of [[Aristophanes]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Orsini |first1=Pasquale |title=L'Aristofane di Ravenna. Genesi e formazione tecnica e testuale di un codice |journal=Scriptorium |date=2011 |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=321–337 |doi=10.3406/scrip.2011.4136 |url= https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/scrip_0036-9772_2011_num_65_2_4136.pdf |access-date=26 January 2021 |lang=it|issn=}}</ref> |
The Codex 429 of [[Ravenna]]’s [[Biblioteca Classense|Classense]] Library, attributed to the half of the [[tenth century]], is the most ancient [[medieval]] manuscript that preserves the eleven extant comedies of [[Aristophanes]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Orsini |first1=Pasquale |title=L'Aristofane di Ravenna. Genesi e formazione tecnica e testuale di un codice |journal=Scriptorium |date=2011 |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=321–337 |doi=10.3406/scrip.2011.4136 |url= https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/scrip_0036-9772_2011_num_65_2_4136.pdf |access-date=26 January 2021 |lang=it|issn=}}</ref> |
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The codex arrived in [[Western world|the West]] in [[1423]], through the agency of [[Giovanni Aurispa]], who saved this and many other precious manuscripts from the imminent [[fall of Constantinople]], taking them to [[Florence]], to the humanist [[Niccolò de' Niccoli]]. In [[1516]] Bernardo Giunta used it for the first printed edition of ''[[Lysistrata]]'' and ''[[Thesmophoriazusae]]''; the traces of the manuscript were lost until [[1712]], when the abbot Pietro Canneti found it at last in [[Pisa]] and brought it to [[Ravenna]], in the library of the Monastery of [[Classe, ancient port of Ravenna|Classe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Classici in Classense |url=https://www.classense.ra.it/classici-in-classense/ |website=Istituzione Biblioteca Classense |access-date=26 January 2021 |language=it-IT}}{{not in source|date=November 2022}}</ref><ref> Simone Beta, ''La donna che sconfigge la guerra: Lisistrata racconta la sua storia'' Carocci editore, 2022.</ref> |
The codex arrived in [[Western world|the West]] in [[1423]], through the agency of [[Giovanni Aurispa]], who saved this and many other precious manuscripts from the imminent [[fall of Constantinople]], taking them to [[Florence]], to the humanist [[Niccolò de' Niccoli]]. In [[1516]] Bernardo Giunta used it for the first printed edition of ''[[Lysistrata]]'' and ''[[Thesmophoriazusae]]''; the traces of the manuscript were lost until [[1712]], when the abbot Pietro Canneti found it at last in [[Pisa]] and brought it to [[Ravenna]], in the library of the Monastery of [[Classe, ancient port of Ravenna|Classe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Classici in Classense |url=https://www.classense.ra.it/classici-in-classense/ |website=Istituzione Biblioteca Classense |access-date=26 January 2021 |language=it-IT}}{{not in source|date=November 2022}}</ref><ref> Simone Beta, ''La donna che sconfigge la guerra: Lisistrata racconta la sua storia'' Carocci editore, 2022.</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 09:56, 11 April 2024
The Codex 429 of Ravenna’s Classense Library, attributed to the half of the tenth century, is the most ancient medieval manuscript that preserves the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes.[1]
The codex arrived in the West in 1423, through the agency of Giovanni Aurispa, who saved this and many other precious manuscripts from the imminent fall of Constantinople, taking them to Florence, to the humanist Niccolò de' Niccoli. In 1516 Bernardo Giunta used it for the first printed edition of Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae; the traces of the manuscript were lost until 1712, when the abbot Pietro Canneti found it at last in Pisa and brought it to Ravenna, in the library of the Monastery of Classe.[2][3]
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[edit]- ^ Orsini, Pasquale (2011). "L'Aristofane di Ravenna. Genesi e formazione tecnica e testuale di un codice" (PDF). Scriptorium (in Italian). 65 (2): 321–337. doi:10.3406/scrip.2011.4136. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Classici in Classense". Istituzione Biblioteca Classense (in Italian). Retrieved 26 January 2021.[failed verification]
- ^ Simone Beta, La donna che sconfigge la guerra: Lisistrata racconta la sua storia Carocci editore, 2022.