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Article: Giovambattista Giraldi Cinzio. Discorso dei romanzi.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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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 ...