Medieval and Modern Philologies



Medieval and Modern Philologies

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The series is currently divided into Serie occidentale and Serie orientale, which will gather research of philological nature (critical editions, monographs, research on printed and manuscript traditions, methodological essays, proceedings of seminars and conferences); its primary goal is to be the ‘place’ of exchange and of intellectual collaboration among scholars of the Western and Eastern traditions: first of all, those who work in the University, but also, and with particular attention, the external ones. Texts written in the main languages of modern cultures will be welcomed; special attention will be devoted to the testing of computer critical editions.

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  • Odorico da Pordenone. Libro delle nuove e strane e meravigliose cose
  • Edizione critica digitale
  • Alvise Andreose, Irene Reginato
  • Oct. 15, 2025
  • The dictation of the travel memoirs at the court of the Great Khan Temür (r. 1294–1307), delivered in May 1330 at the convent of Saint Anthony in Padua to his confrère Guglielmo da Solagna, marks the inception of the textual tradition of the Relatio de mirabilibus orientalium Tatarorum, the sole extant work of the Franciscan friar Odoric of Pordenone (d. 1331). Transmitted through more than one hundred manuscript witnesses, reflecting distinct redactions and textual phases, Odoric’s account achieved wide diffusion, with translations into the major European languages and numerous Italian vernacular adaptations. Among these, the Libro delle nuove e strane e meravigliose cose – a title attested in the eight manuscripts that preserve it – represents a fourteenth-century vernacular version produced in the Veneto region, which circulated swiftly in Tuscany and later again throughout northern Italy. The seminal studies of Alvise Andreose (1998, 2000, and 2002), confirmed by Annalia Marchisio’s critical edition (2016) of the principal Latin recensions of the Relatio, have demonstrated that the vernacular tradition of the work evolved in two distinct stages. The first is represented solely by manuscript Urbinate Latino 1013 of the Vatican Apostolic Library (siglum “Ur”), while the second is preserved in the remaining seven witnesses, among which the most authoritative is the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conventi Soppressi C.7.1170 (siglum “Co”). The digital edition of the Libro delle nuove e strane e meravigliose – the outcome of a research fellowship at the University of Udine (academic year 2023–2024) funded under the University’s 2022–2025 Strategic Plan – fully harnesses the flexibility of the digital medium and the capabilities of the EVT (Edition Visualization Technology) software. It reconstructs, in parallel, both textual stages identified by previous scholarship, presenting two critical texts made available to the reader-user in multiple visualization modes and accompanied by a comprehensive Index nominum.

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