Interventi censori nell’Anthologia Planudea

Journal article

Abstract The aim of this paper is to offer a complete survey of Planudes’s moralising corrections in his epigrammatic anthology, as these can be reconstructed through a comparison between Pl and the other testimonies (i. e. P and the Syllogae Minores). On the one hand, this analysis will confirm the inconsistency of the monk in bowdlerising the texts, often remarked by scholars; on the other, it will clarify that corrections intended to make a text morally acceptable are only occasional, and often ex-tempore. The Appendix discusses a further case of possible bowdlerization by Planudes in the Sylloge Laurentiana, composed about twenty years before his major anthology.

Authors: Floridi, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Byzantinische Zeitschrift
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1079-1116
• Publication date: 2021-09-22
• DOI: 10.1515/bz-2021-0056
• EISSN: 1868-9027
• ISSN: 0007-7704
• Language: English
• Keywords: Classics; Philosophy; Genealogy; History