Note sulla tradizione testuale di Marco Rasilio da Foligno

Marco Rasilio, physician and poet of Foligno, was active between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century. His work is worthy of matteo larGaiolli168attention for its variety of inspiration: he wrote sacred and lyric, erotic and courtly poems, as well as texts close to the popular genres of frottola and the sacred parody. The tradition of his works counts some handwritten witnesses, but above all printed texts and it is characterized by a high rate of variety: Rasilio’s works appear in fact in anthological collections, in single-author anthologies, and in “popular” prints. Some publishers seem to have played a leading role in the diffusion and success of these texts, such as Zoppino in Venice and Nardi and Landi in Siena. The tradition of longer and narrative texts, such as the two frottole and in some respects the Predica d’Amore, is also marked by a tendency towards reworking; this tendency is linked to the performative dimension of the texts and to the contemporary ways of diffusion and copying.