Fedro e Aviano presenze 'fantasma' nella Spagna medievale

The analysis of the manuscripts’ spread of Phaedrus and Avianus’ fables and their Latin rewrightings in Spain during the Middle Ages reveals a fast total absence of witnesses, contrary to the rest of Europe. There are only shy temptatives of penetration of the genre through the cultural contacts with Southern France. The main example is offered by two fables transmitted by the ms. Madrid, RAH, 39 (s. XI), here presented in a new critical edition with the first Italian translation. Anyway a ‘ghost’ presence of the Latin fables before their first printed editions – also due to the Italian and North-European cultural contacts – is confirmed by their tracks in the Libros de los gatos (s. XIV), a rhytmical translation in …. of Odo of Cheriton’s Latin fables, and in Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina clericalis.