Per una nuova edizione della "Storia" del Varchi: il problema storico e testuale

Benedetto Varchi's monumental Storia Fiorentina was left unfinished at the author's death (1565), only to be printed in 1721. Given its alleged Republican contents and its circulation only in manuscript form, the work soon became the object of ideological appropriations. The present contri...

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Published in:Annali della Scuola normale superiore di Pisa, Classe di lettere e filosofia Classe di lettere e filosofia, 2015-01, Vol.7 (1), p.201-272
Main Authors: Brancato, Dario, Re, Salvatore Lo
Format: Article
Language:Italian
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Summary:Benedetto Varchi's monumental Storia Fiorentina was left unfinished at the author's death (1565), only to be printed in 1721. Given its alleged Republican contents and its circulation only in manuscript form, the work soon became the object of ideological appropriations. The present contribution highlights the historical and textual problems of Varchi's Storia, and analyses the various vicissitudes of the work in preparation for a critical edition. It provides for the first time a description of the various compositional stages of the text. It also documents the ways in which various seventeenth- and eighteenth- century scholars, cardinals and princes tried to rediscover the Storia's 'Complete' text. The findings of this article invites us to reconsider the real significance of the failed publication of Varchi's Storia: rather than the result of censorship, it shows that the Medici chose not to publish the work because they did not wish to disseminate it to a wider public.
ISSN:0392-095X