Thibaut de Champagne. Edizione, tradizione e fortuna ed. by Paolo Canettieri et al. (review)

This work of Gruppo Thibaut intends to give a preliminary presentation of the critical and digital edition of Thibaut de Champagne's lyrics. The methodology of this project has been developed in the Laboratorio di Lirica Medievale Romanza (LMR-Lab), the online platform which grants free access to critical editions of texts from medieval Romance lyrical traditions.

For this project, directed by Lucilla Spetia, an eminent expert in trouvère's production, the Gruppo Thibaut is thus supported by the LMR-Lab group and by two researchers in charge of studying the musicological aspects of the corpus: Adriana Camprubí and Antoni Rossell.

Here is the table of contents: Emanuele F. Di Meo, "Per l'edizione di Ausi com l'unicorne sui (RS 2075, L 240.3)" (1–36); Antoni Rossell and Adriana Camprubí, "En busca de la tradición métrico-musical de la obra lírica de Thibaut de Champagne" (37–56); Lucilla Spetia, "La chanson de change religiosa nella tradizione trovierica e Thibaut de Champagne (RS 711, L 240.51) (e una postilla sul 'genere' reverdie)" (57–140); Samuele Maria Visalli, "Appunti per il disciplinare amoroso del Chrétien lirico e sondaggi sulla sua ricezione in Thibaut de Champagne" (141–66); Elisa Verzilli, "Il codice P nella tradizione di Thibaut e nella lirica oitanica" (167–88); Luca Gatti, "Sul canzoniere antico-francese j: Thibaut de Champagne (e dintorni)" (189–204); Margherita Bisceglia, "Il buon re Tebaldo di Inf. XXII. Un riferimento al Rex Navarre nella Commedia?" (205–30).

The main scientific aspects are underlined in Paolo Canettieri's introduction [IX–XXI], which explains the aim of the research project. Gruppo Thibaut is deeply concerned with its methodological and philological strategy, which combines the digital edition with a large production of information and analysis related to Thibaut de Champagne's lyrics. For this purpose, the group will provide the readers with the photographic reproduction of the manuscripts, their diplomatic and interpretative transcription, a reasoned collatio, the edition of the archetypes and the sub-archetypes. Secondly, these preliminary editions will be followed by a critical text provided with an apparatus, a commentary on the philological and literary aspects of the texts and their tradition. Each critical text will be associated with its iconographic data. The musical tradition related to the lyrics is also at the heart of the project: a complete examination, with a philological analysis and performed compositions will be thus provided.

The project tries to take advantage of a new philological approach, whose aim is both to stress and exploit the varia lectio, in order to make it possible for its readers to verify the research group's work anytime, by displaying all the manuscripts and the different stages of the manuscript tradition (at archetype and sub-archetype levels). The reader, in other words, will be able to act as the second agent in the ecdotical work, in a doublecheck process where the quality of the text's interpretation and edition is constantly controlled. By promoting this innovative method, the group focuses on the public of the critical edition, and the digital devices provide a very complete critical apparatus as well as the edition of the different versions of a text.

The first contribution of the book is Emanuele Di Meo's article: here, the reader will find a concrete example of the team's activity, since it both follows and shows the philological approach of the LMR-Lab's digital editions. This critical edition of the poem Ausi com l'unicorne sui (RS 2075, L 240.3) then provides the critical text with a very complete introduction about the manuscript tradition and the construction of the critical text. The commentary is also exhaustive, explaining the varia lectio and focusing on the literary characteristics of this lyric poem, for which the researcher identifies a new source (the first...