What is Authorial Philology?

Preface			vii
Introduction to the English Translation			ix
Acknowledgments			xi

Introduction			xiii
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	A definition of authorial philology		xiii
	The critical edition in authorial philology		xiii
	(Authorial) philology and critics (of variants)		xiv
	From Petrarch’s Canzoniere to modern texts		xvi
	History, methods, examples		xvii
	One discipline, different skills		xviii
	Digital editions and common representations		xx

1.	History		1
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	1.1	Author’s variants from a historical Perspective	1
	1.2	Methods throughout history: from Ubaldini to Moroncini	3
	1.3	Authorial philology and criticism of variants	6
	1.4	Authorial philology and critique génétique	11
	1.5	Dante Isella’s authorial philology	13
	1.6	Authorial philology in the digital era	18
	1.7	Authorial philology in the latest decade	22

2.	Methods		29
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	2.1	The text	29
	2.2	The apparatus	37
	2.3	Variants	47
	2.4	Marginalia and alternative variants	57
	2.5	Diacritic signs and abbreviations	59
	2.6	How to prepare a critical edition	62

3.	Italian Examples		71
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	3.1	Petrarch: The Codice degli abbozzi	71
	3.2	Pietro Bembo: The Prose della volgar lingua	76
	3.3	Tasso: The Rime d’amore	83
	3.4	Alessandro Manzoni: Fermo e Lucia and the seconda minuta	89
	3.5	Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti	98
	3.6.	Carlo Emilio Gadda’s work	107

4.	European Examples		113
	4.1	Lope de Vega’s La Dama Boba	113
	Marco Presotto and Sònia Boadas
	4.2	Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poems	122
	Margherita Centenari
	4.3	Jane Austen’s The Watsons	133
	Francesco Feriozzi
	4.4	Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu	139
	Carmela Marranchino
	4.5	Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot	149
	Olga Beloborodova, Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst

References			161
Glossary			181
List of Illustrations			187

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