The essay presents an analysis of how different prophetic textual traditions depicted catastrophic natural events between the 12th and early 14th centuries. The focus is particularly on the Latin and Romance prophetic corpora associated with the prophet Merlin: from the Prophetiae Merlini included in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie, to their Old French translation preserved in the manuscript of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, n.a.f 4166; from the prophecies compiled in the Prophecies de Merlin to their Italian translation in Paulino Pieri’s Storia di Merlino. The study explores the various ways in which medieval prophecies provided an ideal space for representing nature, also reflecting on the methods of linguistic and cultural translation.
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Chapter Title
«Il estoient si mauvés que por leur mauvestés furent il tuit noiés». Diluvi e carestie nelle profezie di Merlino mediolatine e romanze: un’indagine
Authors
Niccolò Gensini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0602-0.19
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Hic abundant leones. Uomo e natura nei testi mediolatini e romanzi
Book Subtitle
Atti del Convegno dottorale, Università degli Studi di Siena (27-28 settembre 2023)
Editors
Caterina Bellenzier, Carolina Borrelli, Matteo Cesena, Giandomenico Tripodi
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Number of Pages
244
Publication Year
2024
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0602-0
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0601-3
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979-12-215-0602-0
Series Title
Studi di letterature moderne e comparate
Series ISSN
2975-0377
Series E-ISSN
2975-0229