Italian Version A

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The Italian branch of the Version A pattern, sometimes referred to in scholarship as the versione francese-italica (by e.g. Cesari), exists in a few different redactions. All of these follow, or nearly follow, the story-order set by the Old French Version A, and are presumed to be indirect translations of French iterations of the narrative.

These redactions are :

• Libro dei Sette Savj (A), edited by d'Ancona (1864)
• Italian Prose (V), edited by Varnhagen (1881)
• Storia favolosa di Stefano (S), edited by Bozzoli (1999); first discussed in Cesari (1896).

All of these texts have complex inheritances, and none appear to be a straight translation of an individual text. For example, the Italian Prose (V) betrays the influence of L (Sept Sages de Rome), perhaps suggesting that an French A/L Overlap text was the source. The Storia favolosa di Stefano has historically been designated part of Version A, but also evidences influences of I (Versio Italico). Some scholarship (D'Agostino (2022) therefore groups it with other Version I texts instead of with the A branch.

Tradition & Lineage

Branch of the tradition

West

Recorded Secondary Versions

• A (Seven Sages)
  • Dutch Version A
  • French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages
    • Group U
    • Group V
    • Group W
    • Group X
    • Group Y
    • Group Z
  • Gaelic Version A
  • German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus
  • Italian Version A
    • Italian Prose (V)
    • Libro dei Sette Savj (A)
    • Storia favolosa di Stefano (S)
  • Latin Version A
    • Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus
    • Latin Version A: De Septem Sapientibus
  • Middle English Version A
    • Midland Version
    • Y Group
      • Northern English
      • Southern English
  • Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare
    • Old Swedish Redaction A
    • Old Swedish Redaction B
  • Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
  • Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein
    • Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A
    • Middle Welsh Version A

Connected Manuscripts

	Has Language	Has Location	Has Date Range Of Production
Florence Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Gaddiano 166	Italian	Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana	1274 - 1500
Florence Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Palatino 680	Italian	Florence, Biblioteca nazionale centrale	1401 - 1500
London British Library Add. MS. 27429	Italian	London, British Library	1301 - 1325

Modern Scholarship & Editions

Modern research literature

Mussafia (1867), D'Ancona (1864), D'Agostino (2022), Giannetti (2012), Giannetti (1996), Bozzoli (1999), Bianchi (2014-2015), Varnhagen (1881), Cesari (1896), Capelli (1865), Segre (1959), Bozzoli (1997), Comparetti (1869)

Pattern of Embedded Stories in This Version

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Arbor – The Tree	1	Empress
Canis – The Faithful Dog	2	Bancillas	Bencillas
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	3	Empress
Medicus – The Doctor	4	Anxilles	Auxlex
Gaza – The Treasure	5	Empress
Mercator	6	Lentulus	Litalus
Senescalcus – The Seneschal	7	Empress
Tentamina – The Test	8	Malquidras	Malchidras
Virgilius – Virgil's Marvels	9	Empress
Avis – The Bird	10	Cato
Sapientes – The Wise Men	11	Empress
Vidua – The Widow	12	Jesse	Fifth Master
Roma – Rome Besieged	13	Empress
Inclusa – The Imprisoned Wife	14	Arcius

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