Nuove ricerche sull’Aspramonte quattrocentesco in ottave

Marco Boni in 1963 compiled a catalogue of the various editions of the Aspramonte. No further studies have focused on the poem, even though it is one of the most important in the Carolingian tradition. The present essay brings to light four new editions of Aspramonte, which were not included in Boni’s catalogue and focuses on a 1547 Ferrara edition, which is not mentioned either in Boni or in current bibliography. The text of the sixteenth-century editions of Aspramonte counts twenty-four cantos, for a total of approximately twenty thousand verses. No modern editions of the Aspramonte are yet available.