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<br /><hr /><b>Novedad bibliográfica:</b><br />Polanco Roig, Lluís
B., ed. 2012. The Liber elegantiarum by Joan Esteve. A Catalan-Latin
dictionary at the crossroads of fifteenth-century European culture.
Turnhout: Brepols (Colección: Nouveau Recueil des Lexiques
Latin-Français du Moyen Age, 5. 439 págs., ISBN-13: 9782503525860.
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/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p> The <i>Liber elegantiarum</i>
(Venice 1489), by the Valencian notary Joan Esteve (fl. c. 1442-1487),
is an outstanding and quiet original product of early humanistic
European lexicography (<a
href="http://books.google.es/books?id=bXRH3ZgEyPkC&pg=PT7&dq=%22Liber+elegantiarum%22+Joan+Esteve"
target="_blank">http://books.google.es/books?id=bXRH3ZgEyPkC&pg=PT7&dq=%22Liber+elegantiarum%22+Joan+Estev...</a>).
Conceived partly as a bilingual Catalan-Latin dictionary, it by far
surpasses this goal to become in addition an epistolary manual and an
aid to grammar, besides providing an often picturesque collection of
humanist sayings and literary excerpts. Above all it offers dramatic
evidence of the multifacetted expansion of Italian humanism and the
crucial role played by the brilliant Neapolitan court of the King of
Aragon. As a Romance lexicon, Joan Esteve’s work is also one of the
first great repertories to include the vernacular as a source language
(slightly after Tranchedini’s Vocabolario) and probably the first to
be printed, before Palencia’s Universal Vocabulario (1490),
Nebrija’s Dictionarium (c. 1495) or Valla da Girgenti’s
Vocabularium vulgare (1500).<br /><br />This edition of the <i>Liber
elegantiarum</i> is comprised of two main parts. The first consists of
a complete introduction analysing the broad spectrum of its
historical, textual and lexicographical aspects. After a revision of
previous studies and comments on the <i>Liber elegantiarum</i>, a
thorough description and collation of all extant copies confirm that
this is indeed a unique Venetian edition, which can be reconstructed
and explained by the new data provided. Information about the life and
activities of the author, Joan Esteve, is also considerably expanded,
namely concerning his stay in Italy and his various occupations in
Naples, as a royal scribe and others, before practicing as a notary in
Valencia. The work is conveniently framed within the context of the
educational evolution in the late medieval period and its grammatical,
rhetorical and lexicographical traditions, thus better identifying and
evaluating the wide range of sources (from classical to mediaeval and
humanist), that have been notably enlarged. Finally, the heterogeneous
and loosely ‘lexicographical’ technique is examined in detail.<br
/><br />The second part is a complete critical edition of the
dictionary itself. The critical apparatus is primarily aimed at
recording its very frequent printing errors and the alternative
readings found in its numerous sources. These include a full range of
genres (lexicography, grammar, rhetoric, chronicle, novel, theatre,
dietetics) and of periods, from classical (Festus, Fulgentius, Nonius
Marcellus) to medieval (Papias, the Catholicon), and especially
humanistic authors (Barzizza, Caoursin, Facio, Fieschi, Filelfo father
and son, Perotti, Piccolomini, Platina Poggio or Valla),
systematically identified and reported in the apparatus fontium. In
the complementary section of notes (Adnotationum) comment is offered
on the adaptation of the source texts, many of them lacking critical
editions and conveniently transcribed for the first time. Finally, a
comprehensive Index fontium (of all souces and quotations) and a
Bibliography are included.</p><br /><b>Temática:</b> Lexicografía,
Lexicología, Lingüística histórica<br /><br /><b>Índice</b><br
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