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Article Excerpt
Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio. Discorso dei romanzi. Ed. Laura Benedetti, Giuseppe Monorchio, and Enrico Musacchio. Bologna: Millennium, 1999.
This is a much needed and superbly executed edition of the Discorso intorno al comporte dei romanzi, first printed in Venice in 1554. As the editors explain, the Biblioteca Ariostea of Ferrara has a copy of the 1554 edition with Giraldi Cinzio's hand-written notes in the margin, perhaps in anticipation of a second edition (25). When a subsequent edition was printed (which was not, however, until 1864), it incorporated these marginal comments into the original text, resulting in some illegible passages due to lacunas in the notes. The third edition of the Discorso (printed in 1973) included some comments in the body of the text, and others in the footnotes, thus creating a hybrid text (26). Prior to this present edition, the most accurate and academically useful version of Giraldi's Discorso was in English: Henry L....
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