Appunti per una rilettura del Carteggio fra Maria Savorgnan e Pietro Bembo

Notes for a Rereading of the Carteggio between Maria Savorgnan and Pietro Bembo · This article examines the love correspondence between Maria Savorgnan and Pietro Bembo in the early years of sixteenth-century Italy by focusing on a philological and epistolographic perspec tive and taking into consideration the recent literature. While the letters written by Savorgnan to Bembo, which are included in Carlo Dionisotti’s seminal edition of 1950, are original and autographed, Bembo’s letters to her were instead revised and rewritten by the author with the printing press in mind and published posthumously only in 1552. This revision and rewriting resulted in an epistolary romance with partially altered chronology, events and style. Moving from the analysis of Dionisotti’s edition, the article discusses a range of issues connected to this peculiar textual situation while aiming to offer suggestions for a new annotated edition of the Savorgnan–Bembo correspondence.