Las “diferentes conversaciones, a la vida humana utilísimas”
Toward an edition of the "Dialoghi" by Massimo Troiano
Published 2023-09-22
Keywords
- Massimo Troiano,
- diálogo,
- texto bilingue
- Massimo Troiano,
- dialogue,
- bilingual text
- Massimo Troiano,
- dialogo,
- testo bilingue
Abstract
The article examines some key features of Massimo Troiano’s Dialoghi, which describes in detail the festivities organised in Munich in 1568 for the wedding of William V of Bavaria and Renata of Lorraine. The text of the Venetian edition of 1569 is both in Italian and Spanish – a Compendio, printed only in Italian, which transforms the account of the wedding into a manual to learn the Spanish language. The exorbitant richness of the events narrated using the genre of dialogue allows Troiano to exalt the Bavarian court and at the same time to proclaim and promote his talent as a man of culture.