ἀλαλάζοντας (Mc. 5.38), un grido di festa?

This contribution aims to study the Renaissance reception of the Greek word ἀλαλάζω, attested in a passage of the Gospel of Mark (5:38). In fact, between the fifteenth and the seventeenth century, this passage was an acknowledged philological riddle: from Valla’s notes on the New Testament onwards, scholars attempted to determine its lexicographic meaning and its sense in relation to the context. If Erasmus and Beza, according to various parallel occurrences, proposed to amend the text, Casaubon and Pontanus defended the reading transmitted, offering an extremely sophisticated antiquarian interpretation in order to explain what was hidden in the folds of tradition.