Ex codicibus Veronensibus. Tracce attoniane alla Biblioteca Capitolare?

The manuscript Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare LXIII (61) harbours three previously unidentified exegetical short excerpta. The first two are drawn from the Comments to Eph. and I Tim., traditionally attributed to Atto of Vercelli and transmitted in the Attonian manuscript Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare XXXIX; the third, a fragment on I Thess., is so far unknown and not excerpted from Atto’s corpus of commentaries but does bear stylistic resemblances to Eph. The text of the first excerptum appears more correct than in the Vercelli manuscript. This observation provides further evidence to the thesis of Hartmut Hoffmann, who recently attributed the Attonian text to an otherwise unknown Lantfrancus, who would have written his comments during the ninth century in Northern Italy. Pending new discoveries, faint traces of the texts’ possible origins from the Brescia/Verona area are highlighted. Finally, the simultaneous presence of the same text during the tenth century in Verona and Vercelli requires further examination: the article outlines the common background shared by two of the most important tenth-century Italian intellectuals, Atto of Vercelli and Ratherius of Verona.