"Recordi": il diario romano di Cola Coleine (1521-1561) : edizione critica e analisi storico-linguistica

"Era como se fussi papa" (It was if he were the Pope): with just a brushstroke, a colourful epitaph expressede in a "vox populi" colloquial tone, Cola Coleine masterfully outlines the degree of power achieved by the standard-bearer of the church Camillo Orsini, noting down his death in his diary in April 1559. An essential diary, that of Coleine - with very few personal considerations but reporting many events - written in Rome between 1521 and 1561. A text that, disseminated and transmitted from copy to copy, has become a historical source for many a scholar along the course of four centuries. The critical edition of the diary, the subject matter of this work, is preceded by a historical overview of the patrician Coleine family in the Trastevere district, and by an putline of the political and social life of sixteenth-ventury Rome as it emerges from the pages of the diary. After the detailed description of the numerous manuscripts that have handed down the text, and the reconstruction of its stemma codicum, the work focuses on the language of the diary, recognising its features that make it a reliable testimony of the average Roman dialect in use in Rome's sixteenth-century middleclass. The text of the diary in complemented with plenty of notes of textual criticism, also aimed at reporting all the variants in order to highlight the linguistic contamination that were gradually introduced in the transmission of texts by copists who more and more departed from the linguistic use of the author. The glossary is followed by classified indexes, whose entries - at the same time - serve as historical notes to the text as they provide all the essential indications, complete with bibliographic references, for the identification of persons and places mentioned in the diary and for a better understanding of the events recorded by the diarist.