Sertorio Quattromani lettore di Bembo: I “Luoghi difficili” delle “Rime.” Pietro Petteruti Pellegrino, ed. Biblioteca dell'Arcadia: Studi e testi 5. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2018. vi + 498 pp. €51.
ical apparatus of the book, which highlights and discusses the problems of transmission and the unsolvable cruces generated by such a philological situation. The book is not a new critical edition, but it diverges from Bolaffi’s in a significant number of loci and makes it easy for the reader to understand the textual stratigraphy of F and the history and configuration of EP 1553. It meaningfully contributes to the scholarly understanding of the texts that it restores while also making them accessible to any anglophone reader. It reveals how underestimated Ariosto’s memory of Latin auctoritates was, as well as how actually varied his library was: an aspect of the author’s humanistic culture that promises to gain more space in the analyses of his more famous vernacular works. One of the most useful parts of the book is the rich section “Notes to the Translation,” which occupies almost a fourth of the volume and provides intertextual and explanatory notes as well as an introductory comment for each poem. Since most commentaries and secondary sources on Ariosto’s work in Latin are outdated, out of print, or hard to access for an anglophone reader, this new resource (opened by an informative introduction and completed by a thorough bibliography and index) represents a gift and an invitation to researchers in the field of Renaissance studies at large.