Strasz, Joseph Edmond;
(2025)
Paths of Transmission: Exchange and Marginalization and their Role in the Creation of Early Italian Lyric Manuscripts (MSS Laurenziano Redi 9 and Banco Rari 217).
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis engages with the lyric anthology manuscripts MSS Laurenziano Redi 9 and Banco Rari 217 and offers new readings of both manuscripts by analysis of little studied poems and authors. I present these readings by first identifying groups of poems which are thematically related by the marginalization of their poets. In the case of Laurenziano Redi 9, this group of marginalized were prisoners of war and who, for the purposes of the analysis of the manuscript, found a literary figurehead in the form of one Bacciarone di Messer Baccone. The first chapter of this thesis is devoted to the role of Bacciarone and the group he represents in determining the narrative function of the manuscript, which I contend to be an innovation in the medieval literary genre of consolation literature. facilitated by dialogue and intertextuality. In the case of Banco Rari 217, I identify two main categories of marginalized individuals, namely: men expressing same-sex attraction and men who are experiencing exile. These two groups, the focuses of the thesis’ second and third chapters respectively, likewise have figurehead poets in the form of Ser Pace notaro and Frate Guittone d’Arezzo. The second chapter presents the work of Ser Pace in the broader context of the ninth and tenth quires of the manuscript, connecting elements of dialogue and intertextuality found in the ballate and sonnets of these quires with the canzoni of the earlier eight quires to establish an overarching narrative flow which guides the reader through a “poetic life”. The third chapter, in turn, addresses the work of Guittone in a new light by interrogating his compositions within this narrative and addressing the narrative voice given to the author in the manuscript by comparison to that of the voice found in the much larger collection of his work, the Laurenziano.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Paths of Transmission: Exchange and Marginalization and their Role in the Creation of Early Italian Lyric Manuscripts (MSS Laurenziano Redi 9 and Banco Rari 217) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2025. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205924 |
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