Quella parte del giardino di A la fontana del vergier (BdT 293, 1)

The A. proposes to identify in the landscape described in the first verses of the composition the location of a garden, worthy of the abode of a king or rich lord. The hapax “fust domesgier” and the other elements of the landscape are reinterpreted and better defined in the light of the comparison with the terminology and the descriptions of gardens documented in Latin technical literature, with particular regard to the types of garden described by Albertus Magnus and Petrus de Crescentiis. Intra-textual connections with the technical language of the naturalistic description of BdT 293, 3 are also highlighted. From this research, useful elements emerge to clarify aspects of the realism of Marcabrunian poetry and to increase the debate, still open, on the classification of the composition in the “pastorella” genre.