Monti e la traduzione del "Tunisias" di Janos Laszlao Pyrker: un autografo sconosciuto (1825)

Monti and the Translation of Tunisias by János László Pyrker : an Unknown Autograph (1825) · This essay announces the discovery of a 69-verse autograph fragment by Vincenzo Monti that comes from his final efforts in 1825 as a translator, at the behest of Andrea Maffei, of the Hungarian prelate János László Pyrker’s nationalistic epic, the Tunisias. After a brief contextualization of the work and an explanation of the reasons why Maffei and Monti decided to translate particular episodes of it, the author provides a description of the weighty miscellany that contains Monti’s text and situates it within the textual tradition somewhere between the first draft, extant in a manuscript in Forlì, and the first printed edition published in Milan in 1825. The edition of the fragment is accompanied by a critical apparatus of the new witness’ variants, information on its phylogenetic and developmental lineage and, lastly, by comments on the variants.