Imitare citando, citare plagiando: le “Novelle di Giraldo Giraldi”

Abstract

This essay focuses on the strategies of quotation and manipulation, as found in the “Novelle” di Giraldo Giraldi, a fifteenth-century Florentine. Printed in 1796 and enlarged in 1819, Giraldi’s “Novelle” were, in fact, forged by Gaetano Cioni, who published under his name Giraldi’s works. Some of the short stories included in Giraldi’s collection were probably penned by Cioni, while others were taken from Giovanni Gherardi da Prato’s “Paradiso degli Alberti”. Marsilia and frate Macario’s tale is probably Giraldo Giraldi’s only authentic text.

Keywords

• quotation
• plagiarism
• italian literature