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This paper sketches a bottom-up reconstruction of the panorama of Italian Spinoza studies over the past three decades. It tries to capture the self-representation of the Italian scholarly community starting from the analysis of collective volumes, and then exploring the results of a survey among the members of the newly established Italian Societas Spinozana, complemented by individual interviews with leading Spinoza scholars. What emerges is a past heritage centered on historical and philological research, but also deeply interested in political themes and in bringing Spinoza into dialogue with contemporary issues. Today, Spinoza studies in Italy seem to be in a transitional phase, in which a solid bridge must be built between older and younger generations of scholars, negotiating how to handle the heritage of the former and orienting the new perspectives of the latter.

In this contribution the derivational morpheme -pulleŋ in Cholón, a nearly extinct language of the northeastern Peruvian Andes, is analyzed as creating what is called dyadic kin terms in the typological literature. Such morphemes derive kinship terms which denote the dyadic union of consanguineal or affinal kin—for instance, father and son, or husband and wife. This type of morpheme is common in Australia, but it is not frequently reported from the Americas, and there is little clear evidence so far for it in South America. This renders its attestation in Cholón not only of anthropological interest, as such terms normally reflect the social and reproductive life of the speakers of the respective languages, but also for areal linguistic typology. The article discusses the morphosyntactic properties and the semantic functions of the morpheme in question from descriptive, comparative and etymological points of view, taking into account elements with similar function in varieties of the neighboring Quechuan family and the typological situation. This shows that in all respects, the behavior of the morpheme -pulleŋ seems to display some unusual traits, in particular an obligatory third person possessor.

This article revises critical works and contributions by Robert Jammes in the area of studies on Luis de Góngora’s literature. Drawing from the analytical premises included in Antonio Alatorre’s extensive review of Jammes’ 1994 edition of the Soledades, («Notas sobre las Soledades. (A propósito de la edición de Robert Jammes)», (Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 44, 1996, pp. 57-97), this text recaptures the passion, the rigor and the knowledge with which Jammes analyzes Góngora’s poetry and, at the same time, serves as an invitation to current scholars in the field to evaluate and continue along the path pioneered by R. Jammes.

The article attempts a defense of philological disciplines as indispensable tools to read the texts of the Golden Age, whose rational meaning is advocated. The arguments are supported by numerous significant examples.

According to Antony Kenny, history of philosophy is a special discipline “because the link between philosophy and its history is a far closer one” – i.e. closer than the history of other disciplines. In order to promote philosophical and historico-philosophical understanding, philology (broadly intended as the most accurate attention to philosophical texts) is recommended as a tool against history of philosophy intended as a collection of either heroes or mistakes.

This paper presents the study and critical edition of the Cantare di Giusto Paladino transmitted by ms Philadelphia, University of Pennsylcania Library, ms Codex 270, named Ph. One of the two extrastemmatic variants of this text. It is a religious cantare composed in the first half of the 15th century by an anonymous author from the Northern Italian region.

This article provides a list of 125 words of the Mochica language. Created in 1865 on the initiative of Santiago C. Montjoy, then United States consul in Lambayeque, the list was discovered in the 1970s among the dispatches of the Lambayecan consuls, which are archived in the National Archives of the United States by archeologist James B. Richardson III. The list responds to a call from the American Ethnological Society, which, in its first circular that was issued in 1863, invited respondents to submit the equivalents of 180 English words in the indigenous languages of the Americas. This article discusses the circumstances of the elaboration of the list and presents a transcription of its contents and associated materials. In addition, it provides a comparison of the words with their representation in other sources and a philological analysis of selected aspects of the material. In spite of the unsystematic orthography, which one usually finds in this type of source, the wordlist offers new interpretative avenues regarding the phonetics and phonology of 19th century Mochica and the possibility of deepening our understanding of the language.

The global health crisis that marks the start of the 21st century has sparked renewed interest in the research community for the great plague episodes that have marked history. The ‘black plague’ which raged in the middle of the 14th century and decimated part of the European population deeply marked mentalities. The ‘Arts of Dying Well’ is one of the most original manifestations of the changes that took place during this period in the way of perceiving death and of preparing for it. This article concerns a draft edition of some of the most representative Latin and French versions of these medieval texts.

It seems most likely that Richard Messer (born in 1881 in Pančevo, died in 1962 in Prague) came to Budapest in 1900; in any case, at the end of that year he had his surname officially changed to Meszlény. This is how he subsequently signed his — apparently somewhat sporadic — contributions to Budapest-based Hungarian-language journals and newspapers: the prose piece “Egy boldog pár” (Happy Couple) was published in the review Otthon (Home, 1901); a series of critical sketches were printed in the journal A Színház (Theatre, 1904); a couple of texts appeared in the review Művészet (Art, 1905, 1908) and since 1908 he also wrote occasional pieces for the daily Pester Lloyd. After all, as “Meszlény” he graduated in philological studies from the University of Budapest (continuing in Grenoble, Heidelberg and Cluj-Napoca) and it is also how he signed his final, doctoral thesis about Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (Gerstenberg költészete. Irodalomtörténeti tanulmány, 1908). The present study traces precisely these roots of Messerʼs philological and artistic-critical habit.

Does Proclus’ transcendent intellect have parts? Modern editors of the Elements of Theology disagree on a crucial proposition where Proclus reveals the mereological nature of intellect. In his seminal critical edition, E.R. Dodds emended proposition 180 of the work by adding a negation, in order to form πᾶς νοῦς ὅλος ἐστίν, ὡς ἐκ μερῶν ὑποστάς (Dodds 1963, 158.11). This emendation, Dodds claimed, was necessary in order to avoid a contradiction with proposition 171 of the same work. Yet some translators and editors have chosen to ignore Dodds’s emendation, suggesting that the contradiction feared by Dodds is not as problematic as it seems – for example, E.O. Onnasch and B. Schomakers render the Greek as πᾶς νοῦς ὅλος ἐστίν, ὡς ἐκ μερῶν ὑποστάς ἕκαστος (Onnasch and Schomakers 2015, 196.3-4). This paper deals with two related topics. Firstly, I argue that Dodds’s emendation is to be avoided, not merely because his contradiction could be weakened, as others have claimed, but also because the insertion of a negative creates a philological issue of its own, namely a contradiction with propositions 67 through 69 of the Elements. Secondly, I discuss how, based on this reading, Proclus ascribes to intellect a wholeness that is relative, similar to the way Porphyry describes the mereology of intellect. Although Proclus seemingly rejects Porphyry’s mereological ideas in his other writings, I argue that this ultimately comes down to a difference in terminology.

This paper provides an examination of a chapter from Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy (I, 47) in which Machiavelli argues that men deceive themselves in general matters more than they do in particular ones. It contends that in order to defend this claim, Machiavelli tacitly relies on a specific passage from Aristotle’s Metaphysics (I, 2 982a 24-25) which deals with the status of empirical and intellectual knowledge respectively. The passage Machiavelli uses conveyed a well-known tenet of Aristotle’s epistemology, one which was also relayed by all medieval and early modern collections of Auctoritates Aristotelis. Not only does Machiavelli appropriate Aristotle’s account, however, but also reworks it in an original way, giving it a markedly political connotation that was absent in Aristotle.

Fontes Linguae Vasconum aldizkariaren 50. urteurrena kari egindako jardueren kronika Crónica de las actividades llevadas a cabo con motivo del aniversario de la revista Fontes Linguae Vasconum. Report of the activities organised for the 50th anniversary of the journal Fontes Linguae Vasconum

Saio honen helburua da 1750ean Gaspar Miranda eta Argaitz Iruñeko gotzainak dantzak debekatzeko aginduaren euskarazko itzulpenaren edizioa aurkeztea; horretarako Baztango Elbeten eta Elizondon jasotako bi aldaerak erabili dira. Testuak lehendik ere ezagunak baziren ere, saio honetan lehen aldiz eskaintzen dira Elbeteko eta Elizondoko aldaerak batera eta osorik, edizio kritiko batean. Edizioaren ondoren, testuaren azterketa dialektologikoa egiten da eta zenbait ohar ematen dira testuaren fidagarritasun dialektalaz. The main aim of this paper is to present a critical edition of an ecclesiastic edict that forbade public dances. This edict was ordered by Gaspar Miranda y Argaitz, the bishop of Pamplona, in 1750 and was translated into Basque, in a dialectal variant of Elbete and Elizondo, both villages of Baztan. Even though the texts were well-known, in this paper both are presented in full length and together for the first time in a critical edition. In addition, a dialectological analysis is presented as well in order to illustrate the dialectal reliability.

Review of John T. Hamilton, Philology of the Flesh. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. 239 páginas. ISBN: 978-0-226-57282-6 (hard cover); 978-0-226-57296-3 (e-book).

This study consists of two parts. In the first part, we intend to analyse the novel Pentolaccia by the Sicilian author Giovanni Verga, from the point of view of its text variants and in the second part we will focus on its first and last Spanish translations: Pucherete by Cipriano Rivas Cherif (1920) and Historia de Ollaza by José Abad Baena (2011). Our aim is to evidence the differences between them, not only from a linguistic but also from a structural point of view. In order to do this, it is essential to emphasize the propaedeutic study of text variants which will provide us with the relevant results to understand the translators’ modus operandi.

This contribution focuses on coordinated synonymous clauses in Dante’s Commedia. After having clarified the rhetorical value of this particular syntactic construction (with the help of both ancient and modern interpretations), the analysis focuses on its individual occurrences, illustrating the different ways in which the synonymic structure affects the text. All these different forms are shown to be one of the tools with which the author carried out his extraordinary research on vernacular language.

El presente artículo describe, sistematiza, analiza y expone el aporte disciplinario de Héctor Ciocchini y el Instituto de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional del Sur. El análisis de las características estructurales dispuestas para el funcionamiento del Instituto y el examen de la Memoria Académica de las actividades desarrolladas permiten ver un paralelismo con el diagrama funcional del Warburg Institute, donde la filología asume un caracter integrador del conjunto de saberes articulados en el estudio humanístico. Abstract This paper describes, systematizes, analyzes and exposes the disciplinary contribution of Héctor Ciocchini and the Institute of Humanities of the National University of the South. The analysis of the structural characteristics arranged for the functioning of the Institute and the examination of the Academic Memory of the activities carried out allow us to see a parallel with the functional diagram of the Warburg Institute, where philology assumes an integrating character of the set of knowledge articulated in the study humanistic.

Werner Hamacher é um pensador pasticheur: muitos são os desvios de seu percurso filosófico: filologia, direito, política, estética, hermenêutica, literatura. Além disso, sua crítica filosófica e filológica arma uma série geopolítica –Alemanha, França e Estados Unidos– entre línguas e culturas, tornando-se também tradutor de pensadores, como Jean Hyppolite, Paul de Man, Nicolas Abraham, Jean Daive, Jorie Graham e Jacques Lacan. Deste traduz pela primeira vez à língua alemã os escritos técnicos de Freud, em 1978. Sua experiência em Paris, na École Normale Supérieure, ao lado de Jacques Derrida, foi singular, visto que com Derrida, e com tantos outros pensadores que convoca para suas cenas de leitura, Hamacher reativa a força de leituras heterogêneas e desconstrutivistas, que buscam, por sua vez, problematizar a metafísica ocidental. Em vez das noções de compreensão e comunicação, Werner Hamacher investiga o incompreensível, ou ainda, o vir-a-ser da linguagem. Portanto, sua traduzibilidade, e não apenas sua tradução. Em Premises. Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan (1996), visita, entre convergências e divergências, textos fundamentais da modernidade, com o desejo de desativar a pretensão de conhecimento preliminar entre objeto e linguagem. A filologia, seguindo os rastros de Hamacher –tese 10, das 95 teses sobre a filologia –, só alude à outra linguagem e só evoca essa outra linguagem, entrando em contato com o desconhecido, e a partir dessa ignorância o filólogo entra em contato com a força do saber. “A filologia, por isso, ama e esquece o amor pelo amado” (Hamacher, 2011: 11)...

Este trabajo propone una lectura del quizás primer ensayo de una filología americana, en un recorrido por el tríptico que ofrece el trabajo erudito de Andrés Bello en la biblioteca londinense (accesibles ahora en la edición de Iván Jakšić, y Tania Avilés), la fisonomía de sus proyectos editoriales americanistas (el Repertorio y la Biblioteca) y el lenguaje poético de la “Alocución a la Poesía”. Esta lectura pretende realizarse atendiendo al alcance y límites de la impronta política de la práctica filológica tal como la misma se concibe en la Europa en la que Bello desarrolla su actividad en la primera parte del siglo XIX, esto es, durante los años londinenses de Andrés Bello. Abstract This paper offers a critical reading of what might be considered the first attempt at a Latin-American philology, through a close study of, in the first place, a textual triptych composed by the notes taken by Andrés Bello during his years of philological research in the British Library (which are now available to a wider public thanks to the extraordinary work accomplished by Iván Jakšić and Tania Avilés). Secondly, of his Latin-Americanist editorial projects conducted in London between 1823 and 1827, and lastly, the study of certain aspects of his “Alocución a la Poesía”. This is intended to be carried out taking into account the scope and limits of the political imprint of philological practice as it was conceived in Europe in the first decades of the 19th century, that is to say, during Andrés Bello’s London years.

A Colecção Fernando Távora de manuscritos e impressos é uma das mais completas de Portugal, tratando-se de um legado único, pela sua importância e dimensão. Consciente da necessidade de sistematizar a informação essencial relacionada com estes materiais, Fernando Távora preparou um minucioso meta-arquivo, que é hoje de enorme utilidade. Nele, cada lote do espólio é descrito ao pormenor: o que contempla, o preço, a origem, a data e a quem foi comprado. Este contributo contextualiza e transcreve o meta-arquivo, ajudando quer os futuros especialistas que investiguem este espólio, quer todos aqueles interessados em conhecerem melhor a personalidade de Fernando Távora.

Antonio Machado y Álvarez, Demófilo, is considered the founder of the sciences of folklore and anthropology in Spain. But during his life he only suffered rejections and forgetfulness, which have remained alive, to some extent, until today. Ramón Menéndez Pidal, considered one of the founders of Spanish and Romanic philology, was, on the other hand, a highly respected figure, who had an enormous academic recognition. This article compares the two models and methods, and underscores the modernity of the method of Demófilo.

Untzuko (Txulapain) parrokian edo inguruan orain gutxi agertu den euskal eskuizkribu zahar baten edizio eta azterketa dakargu lan honetan. Testuaren deskribapena egin dugu eta izkribua itzulpen-moldaketa dela kontuan harturik, jorratzen duen gaiaz eta testua euskaraz egotearen arrazoiez azalpen zenbait eman ditugu. Idazkiaren estilo txukuna gogoan, egile anonimoaren ezagupenen eta eraginen gaineko ondorioak atera ditugu. Horrezaz gain, testua ikuspegi filologiko eta dialektologikotik aztertuta, dagokion garaian eta hizkeran kokatzen saiatu gara. Eskuizkribuaren transkripzioa, grafia eta puntuazioa gaurkotua duen bertsioa eta jatorrizkoaren faksimilea ere eman ditugu hemen.

In this article, I offer a contribution to the philological study of premodern materials of languages of South America that have already become extinct. I am concerned with the Yurumanguí language, whose speakers were encountered in the 18th century in the western lowlands of Colombia by a Spanish expedition. This encounter resulted in the production of a short collection of words and phrases by a priest which is analyzed here anew. Problems of inconsistent and likely highly inadequate orthographic representation of the speech of the Yurumanguí informants and other problems, in this case, make it highly difficult to arrive at consistent analyses, as I show throughout my highly tentative discussion of nominal and verbal morphosyntax. I also offer external comparisons for some of the available Yurumanguí lexical material. Far from being able to demonstrate the genetic connections of the language, such comparisons do allow to identify items the Yurumanguí language shared with neighboring languages and hence to situate it within the former linguistic ecology of this part of South America.

The argument presented throughout this essay is that philology is textual curatorship. “To curate” means “to administer someone else’s assets”; to edit a text is an activity according to which the textual critic administers someone else’s text, which is that author’s asset; therefore, the textual critic is a textual curator. There are two difficulties which this assertion raises, which can be formulated as follows: how can an incorporeal asset be administered? How can one administer texts whose characteristics are similar to those which make up Fernando Pessoa’s work? These texts are incomplete because they were left unfinished, not because portions of them have been lost. When this occurs, it is necessary to understand that besides being a textual curator, the textual critic becomes a sui generis co-author as well, as the critic assumes the responsibility of making decisions which are typically made by authors of literary works.

Book review of Jerome McGann, A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014, 238 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-72869-1.