Article: Le scritura degli 'Asolani' di Pietro Bembo.(Review)

Le scrittura degli 'Asolani' di Pietro Bembo. By CLAUDIA BERRA. Florence: La Nuova Italia. 1996. ix + 357 pp. 52,000 lire.

New critical perspectives on Pietro Bembo's least studied vernacular work, the Asolani, were to be expected following the publication of a critical edition by Giorgio Dilemmi (Florence: Accademia della Crusca, 1991). In this excellent study of the work, Claudia Berra draws widely on Dilemmi's edition, to which she suggests a number of corrections, tracing the development of the work from the earliest redazione Queriniana to the posthumous edition of 1553. In doing so, she provides the first systematic account of the literary, philosophical, and ...

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