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THE FLIGHT FROM INCEST AS A LATIN PLAY: THE "COMOEDIA SINE NOMINE", PETRARCH, AND THE AVIGNON PAPACY
Ist Teil von
Medium aevum, 2013-01, Vol.82 (1), p.81-100
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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The Comoedia sine nomine (sometimes cited as Columpnarium) is a seven-act play in Latin by an unknown author which survives in a single manuscript, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8163.1 It is a most unusual classicizing adaptation of a plot which was very popular in the later Middle Ages, a combination of two widely used narrative motifs, the Flight from the Incestuous Father and the Falsely Accused Queen.2 Emile Roy in his 1902 edition assumed that the manuscript dated from the fifteenth century and was written in Italy, but in the view of François Avril of the Bibliothèque nationale, it was produced in the mid-fourteenth century at Avignon under Italian influence.3 I shall return later in this essay to the question of dating and provenance to argue that the text - or at least this particular manuscript of it - can be linked to Petrarch's circle in Avignon. Roy speculated that it might have been read aloud, perhaps by the author and a few friends, perhaps in the palace of a Colonna cardinal.49 On the other hand, several vernacular Flight from Incest and Accused Queen stories involving large casts and a wide range of locations were dramatized in the later Middle Ages, and some at least seem to have been performed.50 If the vernacular plays could be staged, with their sea journeys and tournaments and miraculous restoration of chopped-off hands, perhaps the Comoedia was too.