Marco Presotto’s research while affiliated with Marche Polytechnic University and other places

The aim of this volume is to delve into the peculiarities of the commercial circuit that fed the cultural system of the Spanish Empire during the Golden Age through an overwhelming publishing production of literary texts. The relationship between center and periphery defined by political power did not necessarily correspond to the reality of social networks, business projects, the evolution of technical competence, and the development of a demand that was difficult to establish a priori . We propose an open approach from different methodological perspectives that contribute to the definition of the artistic and literary phenomenon, and which can explain the development of certain publishing practices in particular economic, linguistic, and geographical contexts. An overall picture is offered of the great book marketing networks in Europe and New Spain (Pedro Rueda Ramírez), which multiply the focuses of analysis from family sagas, publishing agents, and hawkers, to land-based circulation and the potential of maritime routes or the transfer of books between the main printing capitals of the time. Benedetta Belloni examines the publishing center of Milan, Arantxa Llàcer Martorell studies the inventory of the assets of the Cormellas printing house in Barcelona, and Giada Blasut reviews the printed production of chivalric books in Seville. Laura Fernández García provides detailed insights into the work of printers in the preparation and publication of Lope de Vega’s Partes de comedias from 1617 to 1625 and in 1635. Guillermo Gómez Sánchez-Ferrer analyses the context that favoured the publishing success of the Viaje entretenido by Agustín de Rojas, the relationship between reprints and the transformations in the world of printing. The volume concludes with a contribution by Alejandra Ulla, who presents the ISTAE project ( Impresos sueltos del teatro antiguo español ) aimed at the recovery and revision of those plays that were considered lost or written by invisibilised playwrights among the noise of larger miscellaneous volumes.

Reseña de Javier Espejo Surós y Carlos Mata Induráin, eds., Preludio a «La dama boba» de Lope de Vega (historia y crítica), Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra (Colección BIADIG -Biblioteca Áurea Digital, 54-Publicaciones Digitales del GRISO), Pamplona, 2020, 290 pp. ISBN: 9788480816700.

A stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides readers with an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of editing ‘authorial texts’ alongside an exploration of authorial philology in its cultural and conceptual architecture. The originality and distinction of this work lies in its clear systematization of a discipline whose autonomous status has only recently been recognised (at least in Italy), though its roots may extend back as far as Giorgio Pasquali. This pioneering volume offers both a methodical set of instructions on how to read critical editions, and a wide range of practical examples, expanding upon the conceptual and methodological apparatus laid out in the first two chapters. By presenting a thorough account of the historical and theoretical framework through which authorial philology developed, Paola Italia and Giulia Raboni successfully reconceptualize the authorial text as an ever-changing organism, subject to alteration and modification. What is Authorial Philology? will be of great didactic value to students and researchers alike, providing readers with a fuller understanding of the rationale behind different editing practices, and addressing both traditional and newer methods such as the use of the digital medium and its implications. Spanning the whole Italian tradition from Petrarch to Carlo Emilio Gadda, this ground-breaking volume provokes us to consider important questions concerning a text’s dynamism, the extent to which an author is ‘agentive’, and, most crucially, about the very nature of what we read.

The series Biblioteca di Rassegna Iberistica publishes monographs and collections of high scientific rigor essays regarding linguistic and cultural areas of Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian and Catalan. It is bound to present publications issued from research activities of Ca’ Foscari University and foreign and italian institutions and researchers’ publications. It aims to be a privileged location to discuss about research, instruments of our subjects according to innovative theorical and historical perspectives. A summary and interdisciplinary project, publishes works about the whole angles of Iberic and Ibero-American culture.

The series Biblioteca di Rassegna Iberistica publishes monographs and collections of high scientific rigor essays regarding linguistic and cultural areas of Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian and Catalan. It is bound to present publications issued from research activities of Ca’ Foscari University and foreign and italian institutions and researchers’ publications. It aims to be a privileged location to discuss about research, instruments of our subjects according to innovative theorical and historical perspectives. A summary and interdisciplinary project, publishes works about the whole angles of Iberic and Ibero-American culture.

Reseña de Rafael González Cañal y Almudena García González, eds., El teatro de Cervantes y el nacimiento de la comedia española. Congreso extraordinario de la AITENSO (Actas selectas, 39), Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, [Cuenca], 2017, 392 pp. ISBN: 9788490442999.

El artículo ofrece un estudio, edición y facsímil de la dedicatoria para la imprenta de una comedia de Lope de Vega. Se trata de un documento único desde un punto de vista tipológico, hasta ahora desconocido, que presenta notable interés en el estudio de la relación entre el dramaturgo y la publicación de sus obras.

The series Biblioteca di Rassegna Iberistica publishes monographs and collections of high scientific rigor essays regarding linguistic and cultural areas of Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian and Catalan. It is bound to present publications issued from research activities of Ca’ Foscari University and foreign and italian institutions and researchers’ publications. It aims to be a privileged location to discuss about research, instruments of our subjects according to innovative theorical and historical perspectives. A summary and interdisciplinary project, publishes works about the whole angles of Iberic and Ibero-American culture.

El artículo ofrece unas breves consideraciones sobre el panorama actual de los corpora textuales digitales del teatro clásico europeo, con un especial enfoque hacia el contexto español. Dentro de este ámbito, se pone énfasis en el proceso de realización y las características de la edición crítica y el archivo digital de una comedia española del siglo XVII, La dama boba de Lope de Vega. Este proyecto, que se ha realizado con fines experimentales, pretende ofrecer a la comunidad científica un posible modelo de representación de tradiciones textuales complejas que implique la superación de los límites de la edición tradicional en papel.