La critica del testo negli epistolari dei dotti carolingi

The article deals with passages from the correspondence of Carolingian scholars concerning textual criticism of ancient texts in order to show the different problems they met – collatio, tipology of mistakes, editing – and how they tried to solve them. We can assume once more the task Carolingian scriptoria afforded – trying to ensure the correctness of the transmission of the classics – was the rescue of the cultural project of Roman empire inside the new structure built by Charlemagne.