Gli Inni Di Sinesio Di Cirene: Vicende Testuali Di Un Corpus Tardoantico (Beitr GE Zur Altertumskunde) (Italian Edition) (Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde, 299)

No exhaustive study is available today about the history of Synesius' poetic corpus. The book offers a set of analyses, dealing with the preservation of the original collection and the order of its single pieces. A new assessment of the internal structure of the entire corpus in general and of single hymns in particular is achieved by a revision of the manuscript tradition and the study of the relationship between Synesius' philosophical and religious system of thought and the cultural framework of Late Antiquity. The results lead to a completely new text arrangement.

Since Terzaghi’s edition (1939) no new relevant data were found illustrating the textual history of the Synesian poetic corpus from Late Antiquity to the Palaeologan Byzantium. Thanks to a new inspection of the main manuscripts and the enucleation of thematic and structural incoherencies, hitherto unnoticed, it seems possible to restore the structure of the hymnodic corpus as it was before its original pattern was damaged and modified by late Byzantine editors. Specific researches are devoted to: (1) the displacement of the ninth hymn (originally intended to open the hymns series); (2) the beginning of a new hymn with the last verses of the ninth; (3) the merging of two hymns into what is now the first hymn and a new assessment of the last part of the same piece (according to the Neoplatonic theory of the soul); (4) the real purpose and nature of the hymns 6-8 (uncorrectly considered “tout court” as christological), and the original structure of the eighth hymn (to be divided in two different poems). Moreover, the study of ancient and late antique metrical and musical theories reveals hitherto unexpected features about both production and performance of Synesius’ hymns.

Introduzione 9 Novità dai manoscritti 13 Il ms. Vat. gr. 1390 (Q) 13 Il ms. Ambr. A 92 sup. (I) 16 Il ms. Ath. Vatop. 685 (V) 22 Il ms. Monac. gr. 87 (M) 26 Preliminari sul corpus innodico sinesiano 33 Un testimone d’eccezione per la storia degli Inni: le Epistole 33 Un’edizione “sinesiana” degli Inni 34 “Il quaderno dei giambi” e la prima lirica filosofica sinesiana 44 Un proemio per gli Inni 54 L’inno 1 73 Introduzione 73 La struttura: un parallelo tra hymn. 1 e 2 73 Da hymn. 1Pa a hymn. 1Cp: perplessità e incongruenze 81 “Tu” e “io”: l’uso dei pronomi personali nel corpus e in hymn. 1 84 Lo status di hymn. 1Cp: un problema aperto 86 L’“inno dell’anima” (hymn. 1An): continuità o estraneità? 88 Il possibile aspetto originario di hymn. 1An 96 Hymn. 1An: un inno autonomo? 111 Ipotesi per la mise en page dell’inno: le testimonianze manoscritte 113 Una possibile conclusione 116 Gli inni 6, 7 e 8 119 Introduzione 119 La struttura degli inni 6-8 120 Metrica e non solo: qualche novità su hymn. 6-8 124 Problemi di composizione 146 Appendice: Caratteristiche dell’apokroton sinesiano e constitutio textus 165 Conclusioni 168 Conspectus Codicum 171 Bibliografia 173 Indici 186 Main description: No exhaustive study is available today about the history of Synesius' poetic corpus. The book offers a set of researches, dealing with the preservation of the original collection and the order of its single pieces. A new assessment of the internal structure of the entire corpus in general and of single hymns in particular is achieved by a revision of the manuscript tradition and the study of the relationship between Synesius' philosophical and religious system of thought and the cultural framework of Late Antiquity. The results lead to a completely new text arrangement