Lanciare lo sguardo oltre il confine. Sulla cinquecentesca e rinnovata fortuna di alcune opere cavalleresche minori

This article examines the fortunes of ten works of chivalric literature, first published in the 15th century, in 16th-century printing, namely: Altobello; Antea; Apollonio di Tiro; Aspramonte; Buovo d’Antona; Bradiamonte; Innamoramento di Carlo Magno; Persiano; Trabisonda; Ugieri il Danese. Starting from previous studies on this group of works, the bibliographic descriptions of 15 entirely new editions that are held in single copies in libraries outside Italy – and that were, for this reason, hitherto unknown to Italian scholars – together with the total of 42 new copies of known editions found in different institutions abroad make it clear that the number of editions for this group and the average survival ratio of this genre of popular literature are, respectively, 50% and 30% higher when compared with the relevant data in Edit16 on line.