Le vite latine inedite di santa Irene. Studio e edizione critica

The legend of the young martyr Irene largely circulated in the Byzantine Empire. Since the 11th Century several latin versions have derived from both the long greek Passio and the Constantinople Synaxary: in Italy no lands were concerned by a cult of Irene (with the important exception of Lecce), but Italian communities in Byzantium showed a great interest in her history and translated it on successive occasions. These translations reached Venise, where Peter Calò and Peter Nadal used them, and the Tuscany, where we find a vernacular version too. The article presents all these texts and offer the editio princeps of four of them: the two recensiones of a latin version of the Passio, a translation of the Synaxary, the entry on Irene in Calò’s Legendae de sanctis.