Joan Roís de Corella, La Istòria de Leànder y Hero: edizione critica con studio introduttivo

This contribution is a further partial anticipation of the critical edition of the mythological faules of Joan Roís de Corella (15th century) for Barcino (ENC), after that appeared in Magnificat, vol.3, 2016. It focuses on one of the author's most mature and significant faules, as well as one of the most prestigious testimonies both of the presence of the myth of Ero and Leandro in the Iberian 15th century, and of the peninsular reception of the Heroides. The paper consists of two parts. In the first part, Introduction, the current situation of the studies related to the Istòria is first summarized. Next, the analysis of the literary memory that supports the discursive construction of the faula is provided, with the intent of demonstrating how the narration actualizes a game of mirroring, projections, refractions, intertextual references, and symbolic-allusive evocations that make res and characters the reviviscence of a plurality of classical and medieval models. Such a reviviscence results loaded of a new pathetic energy. The analysis is based on certain thematic words and specific topical-rhetorical matrices, reused either a lo profano or a lo divino, always within the idea of “dying together" and of love beyond death. It focuses on the communication strategies through which the text - a ficció sentimental, become a point of convergence of thematic, metaphorical and figural intertwinements, anchored to the Tristanian, lyrical-amorous, ausiasmarquiana, cancioneril and Passionist imagery of planctus virginis - transforms memory and reuse into an invention. The second part of the paper is the critical edition of the text. Anticipated by the Criteria of Edition, it contains the Text, with footnotes concerning the constitutio textus, and the Critical Apparatus.