Publication: Un’ars per tutte le stagioni. Sulla ricezione del grammatico. Donato fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo
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2022
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Abstract
L’Ars del grammatico Donato è un vero best
seller della tarda antichità: l’opera, suddivisa
in una breve Ars minor introduttiva e una più
corposa Ars maior in tre libri, si impone sulla
scena scolastica romana fin dai primi tempi
della sua composizione e pubblicazione
(seconda metà del IV secolo), e ha una
ricchissima storia di tradizione, commento
e riuso. Prendendo come campione il
terzo libro dell’Ars maior, relativo a pregi
e difetti del discorso, si tracciano alcune
linee generali della ricezione di Donato nei
grammatici successivi, dalla tarda antichità
fino alla rinascenza carolingia: ripetizione o
parafrasi del testo-guida; adattamento del
testo-guida; ampliamento del testo-guida;
discussione del testo-guida. Per ognuna di
queste tipologie di ricezione sono presentati,
tradotti e commentati alcuni passi che
possano rappresentare l’atteggiamento dei
grammatici delle varie epoche nei confronti
di un testo la cui auctoritas non è mai messa
in discussione.
Donatus’ grammar was a real best seller in Late Antiquity. The work, known to us as Ars Donati, is divided into two parts: the shorter Ars minor, a basic introduction to the subject, and the longer Ars maior in three books. Very soon after its publication (second half of the 4th century) the Ars became a standard textbook and was transcribed, commented and reworked throughout the centuries. This paper takes as its starting point the third book of the Ars maior (devoted to vices and virtues of speech) to sketch out the main lines of the reception of Donatus in later grammarians, from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian Renaissance. The paper identifies four different reception attitudes, namely repetition or paraphrasis; adaptation; expansion; problematization. These different typologies are investigated with the help of significant episodes of the reception of Donatus across the centuries, in order to study the grammarians’ evolving and adaptive attitude towards a text whose ultimate auctoritas was never in question.Donatus,
Donatus’ grammar was a real best seller in Late Antiquity. The work, known to us as Ars Donati, is divided into two parts: the shorter Ars minor, a basic introduction to the subject, and the longer Ars maior in three books. Very soon after its publication (second half of the 4th century) the Ars became a standard textbook and was transcribed, commented and reworked throughout the centuries. This paper takes as its starting point the third book of the Ars maior (devoted to vices and virtues of speech) to sketch out the main lines of the reception of Donatus in later grammarians, from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian Renaissance. The paper identifies four different reception attitudes, namely repetition or paraphrasis; adaptation; expansion; problematization. These different typologies are investigated with the help of significant episodes of the reception of Donatus across the centuries, in order to study the grammarians’ evolving and adaptive attitude towards a text whose ultimate auctoritas was never in question.Donatus,
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Donatus, Ars maior, Ars minor, teaching in Antiquity, history of linguistics
Citation
Anna Zago, "Un’ars per tutte le stagioni. Sulla ricezione del grammatico. Donato fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo", in: Marco Fernandelli, Ermanna Panizon, Teresa Travaglia (a cura di), "VIVENDO VINCERE SAECVLA. Ricezione e tradizione dell’antico. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Trieste, 29-31 gennaio 2020)", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2022, pp. 81-112.