A Fifteenth-Century Warmian Reworking
of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine
GIOVANNI CASCIO
Università degli Studi di Messina
ABSTRACT: This article examines a reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s Liber sine
nomine transmitted in a group of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscripts of German
provenance—namely, Gdańsk, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1947;
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1260; and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm
5354. The article brings to light the mechanisms of this rewriting—in which Italy and
the principal Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch’s epistles Sine nomine are replaced by
Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia—as well as its likely ideological aims.
The study also considers the possible origin of this textual reworking and the historical
and cultural context in which it may be situated.
KEYWORDS: Petrarch, Liber sine nomine, Prussia, Warmia, Olsztyn, Textual
Reworking, Textual Criticism.
The Liber sine nomine (Book without a name; cited as Sine nom.),1 a
collection of nineteen letters written from 1341 to the late
1350s but not assembled until the end of 1359 or early 1361
In vol. 7, no. 4, Giovanni Cascio (U di Messina) studies an intriguing reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s "Liber sine
nomine" in which Italy and the main Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch's epistles are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
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Margit Frenk (1925-2025). La riada del canto popular
A lo largo de los años, la mexicana desplegó toda la potencia de la buena filología para recuperar lo que cantaba el pueblo entre los siglos XV y XVII, desde rondas de amor a cantares de faena
Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida
Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
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El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado
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Doctoral funding opportunities here at the University of Birmingham:
“We are delighted to launch our PhD funding opportunities for arts, humanities and law doctoral study at the University of Birmingham.
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CFP: Ovid’s Metamorphoses Through Time: Paratexts, Translations and Iconography, Universitat de Barcelona, 2-3 July 2026.
CFP: Ovid’s Metamorphoses Through Time: Paratexts, Translations and Iconography, Universitat de Barcelona, 2-3 July 2026.
CFP: Ovid’s Metamorphoses Through Time: Paratexts, Translations and Iconography, Universitat de Barcelona, 2-3 July 2026.
CFP: Les Metamorfosis d’Ovidi a través del temps: paratextos, traduccions i iconografia (Universitat de Barcelona, July 2-3).
Deadline: January 15, 2026.
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Information about an Open House for the graduate programs in Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics at UMass Amherst.
Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!
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image of lines 9-12 of poem xiii by ausiàs march in the original catalan and a translation into portuguese.
original:
Cascú requer e vol a son semblant;
per ço no·m plau la pràtica dels vius.
D’imaginar mon estat són esquius;
sí com d’om mort, de mi prenen espant.
translation:
Toda gente gosta de quem lhe é irmão;
por isso não m'apraz a parla dos vivos.
De imaginar meu estado são esquivos;
assim como a um morto, me têm aversão.
I miss translating literature so much. last week I read a chapter from henry berlin’s “alone together” for @albertlloret.bsky.social’s class and couldn’t resist trying to translate the ausiàs march excerpts into portuguese.
here’s one example (lines 9-12) from poem XIII.
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Manuscript Letter edited and studied by Montserrat Ferrer
In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...
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Classic literature has no relevance to contemporary readers. Even novels published last month are full of outmoded conventions. Only fiction that is written literally right this instant can capture the zeitgeist of the present moment
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Adjacent problem: AI-generated slop brought to committee work. If I don't know it's AI-generated, as a cooperative colleague, I'll tend to refrain from criticizing unless something is blatantly inadequate. When I find out what it is, I'll engage. But what a waste of time. And it erodes confidence.
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First page of article to appear in Viator, "Printing Medieval Catalan Historiography and the Politics of Dynastic Exemplarity in Habsburg Spain"
Proofs
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CALL FOR PAPERS
20th International Colloquium
of the North American Catalan Society
The State University of New York at Buffalo
April 16-18, 2026
Keynote Speakers
Raül Garrigasait James Hawkey Bel Olid
Writer, author of La roca i
l’aire: Art i religió de Llull a
Tàpies (2025)
University of Bristol
Sociolinguistics and Catalan
Studies
University of Chicago
Author and Translator
President of the Associació
d’Escriptors en Llengua
Catalana, 2015-2022
Survival, Resistance, Rebirth
You are invited to submit paper abstracts or panel proposals on any topic relating to Catalan
literature, culture, or language. We also welcome proposals for papers and panels focusing on
the Colloquium special theme, Survival, Resistance, Rebirth, and with particular attention to
these issues:
Tradition and innovation in literature, arts, and culture
Ecological crisis, conservation, and change
Political reaction and revolution
Linguistic conservation, normativization, and change
Narratives of cultural decline and renaissance
Migration, tourism, and national identity
Technological development and rural/urban spaces
Collaboration, insurgency, exile
Papers may be in Catalan or English, with a maximum length of 20 minutes. Please send
abstracts (max. 250 words) and panel proposals by November 1st, 2025 to: hsberlin@buffalo.edu
New deadline, Nov. 1, 2025.
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Primera pàgina de l'article "Descuido en la copia, mala cuenta del original o remedio de composición: los capítulos 271 y 272 del Tirant lo Blanc de Spindeler"
I aquí un altre treball sobre les dificultats de determinar quina mena d'error es va produir en un punt de l'edició prínceps del Tirant lo Blanc, amb Jaume Torró:
websites.umass.edu/lloret/files...
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Primera pàgina del capítol de llibre "El títol de l'edició prínceps de la Crònica de Ramon Muntaner (València, Jerònima Galés, 1558)
Si voleu saber com es titulaven les obres a l'època de la impremta manual, potser us interessarà això:
websites.umass.edu/lloret/files...
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Portada del llibre "No importa: Homenaje a Francisco Rico"
Per aquí es pot baixar sencer aquest homenatge a Francisco Rico, amb un munt de contribucions interessants:
drive.google.com/file/d/1vHU2...
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La definición de Rico y Amat (1855) de opinión pública.
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Portada de “L’art de portar gavardina” de Sergi Pàmies.
Final de paràgraf de probablement millor conte del llibre.
Rellegint #SergiPàmies.
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In practically a wink, thanks to clunky but reliable Wordpress, I have moved all of my publications from the repository I had used to archive and organize them since I was in grad school to a new site: websites.umass.edu/lloret/
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Coberta del catàleg de l’exposició 100 anys de Coses vistes.
Foto de la coberta de la primera edició de Coses vistes de Josep Pla
Portades d’altres llibres titulats ‘Coses vistes’ en francès i italià
Foto de Pla i primera pàgina del text ‘Coses vistes’ i la crisi de la novel·la, de Guillem Molla
#JosepPla #CosesVistes
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Project MUSE - Hispanic Review-Volume 93, Number 3, Summer 2025
Muy contento de haber podido contribuir a este número de Hispanic Review, que nos obligó a releer un texto clave. La cultura del Barroco, de José Antonio Maravall, @guerraenlauni.bsky.social @ucm.es @filologiaucm.bsky.social @santiperezisasi.bsky.social @cesarr
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55575 @eldiario.es
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Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker
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Arquitectura, esdevenir i estudis catalans
En reconeixement de la designació de Barcelona per part de la UNESCO com a Capital
Mundial de l’Arquitectura 2026, la North American Catalan Society dedicarà el seu 5è Seminari
d’Estiu a l’arquitectura. Fent-nos ressò del tema proposat pel Congrés Mundial de la Unió
Internacional d’Arquitectes, "Esdevenir: Arquitectures per a un Planeta en Transició", que també
tindrà lloc a Barcelona el 2026, convidem propostes que explorin les interseccions entre
l’arquitectura i els estudis catalans.
Ens interessen especialment contribucions que abordin críticament els sis eixos temàtics del
Congrés de la UIA: “becoming beyond-human, attuned, embodied, interdependent,
hyper-conscious, circular.” Els temes poden incloure (entre d’altres): arquitectura i pensament
ecològic; territoris urbans i rurals, locals i globals; el paper de l’espai construït en la llengua, la
literatura i les polítiques identitàries catalanes; processos d’esdevenir i circularitat en l’espai i el
temps arquitectònics i literaris; i les dimensions cíviques, artístiques o simbòliques de
l’urbanisme i l’arquitectura catalanes. Acceptem múltiples formats, com ara estudis de casos,
exploracions teòriques i investigacions pràctiques basades en disseny per part d'acadèmics de
qualsevol disciplina que treballin a la intersecció de l'arquitectura i els estudis catalans en un
sentit ampli.
Architecture, Becoming, and Catalan Studies
In recognition of Barcelona’s designation by UNESCO as the 2026 World Capital of
Architecture, the North American Catalan Society will devote its 5th Summer Seminar to
architecture. Echoing the theme proposed by the International Union of Architects’ World
Congress, “Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition,” also happening in Barcelona in
2026, we invite contributions that explore the intersections of architecture and Catalan studies.
We particularly welcome contributions that engage critically with the six thematic strands of the
UIA Co…
Funcionament del seminari
Propostes
Per a presentar propostes de participació, envieu un resum d’unes 200 paraules al comitè
organitzador de la jornada (eillas@iu.edu; rcapdevilawerning@fas.harvard.edu) abans del 31
de gener de 2026. En un document separat, envieu el nom, títol del paper i la vostra afiliació.
El resum ha de ser anònim ja que passa per un procés de revisió per parells. Rebreu una
resolució abans de la darrera setmana de març.
Abans del 15 de juny, els ponents faran arribar als altres participants un assaig breu de presa
de posició respecte el tema del la seva contribució. Aquests assajos breus cal que estiguin
escrits en català o en anglès, siguin redactats en un estil afí al d’un article d’opinió, i tinguin una
extensió d’entre 3 i 5 pàgines. Els participants hauran llegit tots els assajos de la seva sessió
abans del seminari del dia 1de juliol. A la taula rodona, el ponents faran un resum o extendran
el que havien exposat a l’assaig en 3 o 4 minuts. Després de les breus presentacions, hi haurà
una discussió general.
Públic participatiu
Si us interessa assistir a la jornada com a públic participatiu (és a dir, havent llegit amb
antelació els assajos de presa de posició i participant a la discussió general de les taules
rodones), us podeu inscriure a finals de juny.
Summer Session Details
Submissions
To be considered for participation as a speaker, please send an abstract (200 words in length)
to the Organizing Committee (eillas@iu.edu; rcapdevilawerning@fas.harvard.edu) by January
31th 2026. On a separate document, send your name, title of paper and filiation. Please do not
include your name on the abstract as it will go through a peer review process. Decisions will be
sent by the last week of March.
By June 15th, speakers will share an informal position paper in response to their roundtable
questions with the other seminar participants. These informal papers will be 3 to 5 pages long,
written in English or Catalan, in an op-ed style, with minimal …
Call for Papers
5th Summer Seminar - V Seminari d’estiu
North American Catalan Society
Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona
July 1, 2026 - 9.30-14.30
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Coordino el Quadern d’El País
Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Catedràtica Universitat de Girona.
Directora Càtedra Patrimoni Literari Anglada-Fages
Presidenta Fundació Prudenci Bertrana
Consellera de Cultura Generalitat de Catalunya 2019-2020
Teaching Fellow in Spanish at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in surrealism, poetry and feminist art. Author of two 📚 , half-marathoner.
Per a un duc Bach escriví música d'orgue a Weimar.
Psicòloga. Psicoteràpia individual i de parella. Sexòloga. Perspectiva de gènere.
💜 Ella/She i 🖖📚😉
Primum non nocere.
www.marinavivo.com
Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
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The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Education worker @ UVa. Jamonista, believes in Billy Wilder, the Force, and learning as a public good. Y voy de bar en peor.
"Buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es infierno, y hacerlo durar, y darle espacio." (Italo Calvino)
Pai de Lois e de Xoana | Investigador Ramón y Cajal na @usc.gal| "Quen serve ao común non serve a ningún"
Complete new edition of Boccaccio’s works with English translation and commentary + philological notes in Italian.
#medievalsky #earlymodern
ibe@quodmanet.com
www.quodmanet.com/ibe.html
Endorsed by: American Boccaccio Association and Ente Nazionale GB
Prof literatura UB.
Finalista ensayo Anagrama 2021
Director colección "Los ilustrados" de la editorial Laetoli.
https://elpais.com/autor/bernat-castany-prado/
http://pliegosuelto.com/?author=62
http://zendalibros.com/author/bernatcastanyprado/
feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Musicologist | Director of Elements Project at UMass Amherst
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Co-convenor of Five College Renaissance Seminar
He/him
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • #PhilSci #HistSTM #philsky • Escribo y edito
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