L’«amico del Boccaccio» e l’allestimento testuale dell’Officina vaticana

Abstract

In the opinion of Giorgio Petrocchi, Giovanni Boccaccio’s edition of the Divine Comedy (with the three manuscripts To – Ri – Chig) is derived from the manuscript Vat. Lat. 3199 and, because of its contamination, represents a turning point in the tradition, be- tween the so-called antica vulgata and the following manuscripts. Nevertheless, the analysis of new findings shows that Boccaccio’s manuscripts don’t derive from Vat. Lat. 3199 but from other manuscripts of the same group (Barb. 3644, Fior. Pal. 314, Laur. 40.13, Marc. Zan. 55, Ricc. 1012), which Petrocchi did not know; the analysis of these manuscripts also proves that they are deeply contaminated (particularly with b and c groups of Petrocchi’s stemma), which also means that Boccaccio played a minor role in this context. These results imply the rejection of Petrocchi’s theory secondo l’antica vulgata.