Dal codice al monumento: l'epigrafia dell'Umanesimo e del Rinascimento

Abstract

It is possible to evaluate the consolidated and refined way in which tituli were produced in the late 15^th throughout the entire 16^th centuries, as exemplified by the workings of Felice Feliciano, Giovanni Francesco Cresci and Luca Orfei. Conversely, this is almost completely lacking in the transcription of those tituli which had underpinned the formulation of the ground rules of incision. This is clearly shown in the epigraphic manuscripts produced between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The set of rules, theorised and imposed, underpinning monumental epigraphic realisation and the transcription of those exempla on epigraphic syllogists are seemingly contradictory. In fact, they show, on the one hand, a skilful and philological search for the forma; and, on the other, the almost complete absence of, or at least the lack of concern for, faithful palaegraphic transcription of texts. The study aims to explain these issues, while being directed at scholars interested in the history of the transcription of humanist epigraphic manuscripts.