La fonetica provenzale di Luigi Onorato Drago

[Autom. eng. transl.] The manuscript D 465 inf. of the Ambrosian Library of Milan (which belonged to the Italian scholar Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, who owned one of the richest libraries in Europe in the sixteenth century) transmits, among other things, a small phonetic treatise on the Provencal language which was attributed to Onorato Drago by Pio Rajna. The scholar is probably right: in the letter to Alfonso d'Avalos that accompanies a vocabulary of Occitan compiled by the same Drago, the scholar claims to have already written, before the vocabulary, "Brevi regule" of the language of 'oc: according to Rajna it is precisely our treatise. Onorato Drago was working using a troubadour songwriter that Avalos had given him: unfortunately, today we know nothing about this manuscript. We propose here a new edition of the letter of dedication addressed to Alfonso d'Avalos as well as the small phonetic treatise (the vocabulary has already been published, not long ago, by Carla Maria Marinoni), correcting the edition, meritorious but aged, of Rajna 1880. Drago shows that he knows well the language of the troubadours; however, his work is not of great value in itself, but as an important element in the rich panorama of the studies of sixteenth-century Italian scholars concerning the language and poetry of the troubadours.