Razones históricas de la filología de autor aplicada a los textos del Renacimiento italiano

Reconsidering the tradition of so-called authorial philology, the essay insists on the one hand on its definition all the way upstream of Contini’s variant criticism, and on the other on the not strictly linguistic-stylistic interest from which some major undertakings in this field originated. After a quick overview of significant editions of Renaissance texts and cases of various importance, Gianfranco Contini’s essay “Come lavorava l’Ariosto” is examined, particularly the variants analyzed there and their categorization, here verified in the context of the work and assessed in a different way.