Edizioni d'autore nell'epoca della stampa tipografica

The first volume of Quaderni di Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria (PEML) aims, as indicated by the very name of the series, to reflect a trajectory of studies, research, and scholarly activity whose roots extend back nearly a decade. The volume Edizioni d’autore primarily represents the outcome of a collective effort that originated with the planning of a seminar series held at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (with the support of the Department of Literary, Philological and Linguistic Studies at the University of Milan and the Department of Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Studies at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), within the framework of the Scuola di Alta formazione in Filologia moderna, between spring 2022 and spring 2023. The initiative was coordinated by Stefania Baragetti, Virna Brigatti, and Simona Brambilla—the latter also representing the journal SteFi. Studi di Erudizione e di Filologia Italiana, which, alongside PEML, supported the project.
The contributions on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors presented during those seminars were published in PEML issue 7(2022), constituting an initial attempt to reassess the material based on chronological coherence. This guiding principle subsequently inspired a more systematic, diachronic reorganization of the papers presented during the seminar series. As a result, both previously published contributions (revised by their respective authors) and new, unpublished texts are now gathered in this volume. The structure of the index allows readers to trace a historical and conceptual path in which the analysis of ecdotic issues – regardless of where they are situated in the chronology of an author’s activity – serves as a foundational element of the stylistic, aesthetic, and literary identity not only of the individual work and its author, but also of the broader cultural identity of the historical period to which they belong.