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Una nuova edizione dell’«Antapodosis» di Liutprando di Cremona

2016

This paper takes remark by the publication of a new edition of Liutprand of Cremona’s «Antapodosis», edited by Paolo Chiesa (Milano 2015). The «Antapodosis» is one of the most characteristic and important historiographical and literary texts of Latin High Middle Ages, and, particullary, of Xth century Italy. This paper, after an introduction in wich we try to paint a picture of the history and the Latin literature in Xth century Italy, with brief considerations about some writers of time (Eugenius Vulgarius, Hatto of Vercelli, Benedict of Saint Andrew of Soratte, Ratherius of Verona), discusses Liutprand’s life and works. Chiesa’s edition is accurately examined, with specifical attention to…