Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna (M)

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The Version I text Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna has often been given the siglum M (for 'Matrigna') in scholarship. There was some controversy about its original reception: it was first published by Giovanni Della Lucia in Venice, 1832, under the title Novella antica scritta nel buon secolo della lingua; it was then reprinted by Gaetano Romagnoli in 1862. Apparently Della Lucia had taken 'some liberties' with the text, 'Tuscanizing' the prose of a Venetian manuscript, which prompted sustained debate about the authenticity of the text as a medieval narrative (see Wikeley (1983) and D'Agostino (2022)). This was laid to rest when the fifteenth-century manuscript was rediscovered and edited in 1883 by Franz Roediger.

Crudele Matrigna is one of the three texts that forms the 'ramo italico antico', the old branch of the Italian Seven Sages texts, alongside the Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L), and

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I (Versio Italico) Erasto Il Libro dei Sette Savi de Roma (C) L'Amabile di Continentia Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna (M) Storia di Stefano (S) Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L)

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Manuscript Language Location Date of Production Florence Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Landau Finaly 13 Italian Florence, Biblioteca nazionale centrale 1451 - 1500

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Modern research literature	Roediger (1883), Della Lucia (1832)
Modern Editions	Roediger, Libro de' sette savi (1883), Della Lucia, Novella antica (1832)

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Note	Also known as Novella antica, Scritta nel buon secolo della lingua and Libro de' sette savi di Roma.
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