Sources

Albertano himself is careful enough to name many of his authorities quite accurately, and Sundby extended this sourcing for the modern reader by annotating his texts with marginalia and footnotes. Fè d’Ostiani and Ferrari took this sourcing further for the sermons, and Romino, Ahlquist, Nuccio and Navone identified yet more sources.

In providing Albertano’s texts on the internet, I have taken pains to include and extend this sourcing as much as possible, and I am grateful to Bill Askins and to Paolo Divizia for their additions, made in correspondence. So far as possible, I have verified these sources against ‘good’ printed editions (see the bibliography below). This is, however, still a ‘work in progress’ and there is much yet to do. I give verified sources in black footnotes and believe them to be accurate. Red footnotes are not yet verified, and may or may not be correct (they are usually inherited from previous editors). More will come.

As ever with ‘sourcing’ a mediæval writer, a note of caution must be sounded. That a quotation can be pinned to an earlier author does not necessarily mean that that earlier author provided Albertano’s immediate source: he used more than one collection of proverbs and did not necessarily know of a quotation’s original author – a snippet from Fulgentius (who Albertano does not name), for example, is mis-attributed to Seneca and Albertano certainly had it from a florilegium of some sort. There are many other examples.

This is not, however, intended to suggest a reductionist approach to establishing Albertano’s library: he was remarkably well-read, and his use of Cassiodorus’ Variae (my thanks to Bill Askins once more for this observation) and of the works of Peter Alfonsi challenge our established orthodoxies concerning what was available in northern Italy at this period. It may even be that, with Peter Alfonsi, Albertano was aware that this authority was a ‘new’ name for his readers, since he feels the need to gloss him as qui fuit optimus philosophus. Further work can only bear more interesting fruit.

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