La vida di Raimbaut d’Aurenga: il canzoniere N 2 e il frammento P v a confronto

The aim of this article is to shed light on the relashionship between the manuscript N², the collection compiled by Giulio Camillo in the XVI^th century, and P^v, a XIII-XIV^th century fragment, probably deriving from a Tuscan manuscript, both containing Raimbaut d’Aurenga’s rare vida. The texts contained in both are roughly similar, but Pv carries also the signature of the biographer Uc de Saint Circ. The presence of this vida in N² and the manuscripts belonging to the Venetian group IK (k) is crucial to the understanding of the relationship between them. The article discusses textual variants, on he basis of which a new critical text is proposed.