The publishing house SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo has just released the volume Autori, testi e manoscritti fra la penisola iberica e l’Italia: da Gregorio Magno a Gregorio VII. In ricordo di Manuel Cecilio Díaz y Díaz, which contains several contributions consistent with the methodology and scholarly interests of Prof. Díaz y Díaz, who was Professor in the Department of Latin and Greek at the University of Santiago and one of the most distinguished medievalists in Europe. The book is the result of the conference of the same name held at the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (Florence) in March 2024.
In this volume, José Carracedo Fraga, Professor of Latin Philology and member of the CLASMED research group, examines the circulation of grammatical texts between Hispania and Italy in the Early Middle Ages, using as a case study the collection transmitted in the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7530. This manuscript, copied in Montecassino at the end of the eighth century, contains an extensive collection of school texts on the liberal arts, with a primary focus on grammar.
Joel Varela Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Latin Philology and also a member of the CLASMED research group, publishes a study on the Hispanic textual transmission of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Iob (ca. 540–604), one of the most widely cited and read works during the Middle Ages. The analysis shows that Hispanic manuscripts contain a number of previously unknown variants (biblical quotations according to the Vetus Latina rather than the Vulgate, Christological formulas that outside the Western churches could be interpreted in a Nestorian sense, etc.), which are undoubtedly authorial variants belonging to a non-final stage of Gregory the Great’s text. Other works by this author display similar variants, which may open the way for a more comprehensive analysis that would allow a better understanding of how the Gregorian works were composed and transmitted.
The link to the publication, which is open access, is available at: https://www.sismel.it/pubblicazioni/2115-autori-testi-e-manoscritti-fra-la-penisola-iberica-e-litalia-da-gregorio-magno-a-gregorio-vii-in-ricordo-di-manuel-cecilio-daz-y-daz