Hernán Núñez in front of the Text of the Laberinto: Elements of Ancient and Humanistic Ecdotics

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  • Juan Casas Rigall Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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https://doi.org/10.37536/RPM.2020.34.0.77990

Keywords:

Juan de Mena, Laberinto, Hernán Núñez de Toledo, Textual criticism, Humanism

Abstract

The two versions of Hernán Núñez’s edition of and commentary on Juan de Mena’s Laberinto illustrate a crossroads in humanist philology, between the scholiasts of Late Antiquity and a more modern evolution of the model. Núñez’s system (which has subtle differences between the two editions of his annotations) is determined by: the adoption of the printed vulgata as a base-text; the proportion of annotations given over to text-critical discussion and the formal presentation of variance; the preponderance of emendations ope ingenii over those ope codicum; and the use of sources as a textual guide. Meanwhile, in the background, Servius and Beroaldus, on the one hand, and Barbaro and Poliziano, provide keys to the evident tension felt between models which were still taking form.

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2020-08-06

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Casas Rigall, J. (2020) “Hernán Núñez in front of the Text of the Laberinto: Elements of Ancient and Humanistic Ecdotics”, Revista de poética medieval, 34, pp. 25–61. doi: 10.37536/RPM.2020.34.0.77990.

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