Presentazione dei Canzonieri di Gasparo Visconti con una nota di Paolo Bongrani

The presentation opens with a look on the scientific production of the Pavia school of Italian Philology, to which Bongrani’s edition belongs (along with other important volumes). The handwritten tradition of the Canzonieri and the publisher’s ecdotic choices are illustrated below. Finally we move on to the reading of this poem and emphasize its didactic and “occasional” rather than regular Petrarchian character; and we discover in one of the final sonnets of the collection a reprise from Persio, which represents an explicit declaration of belonging to a genre.