Un testimone virgiliano di XIV secolo: il ms. Alghero, Biblioteca Comunale “Rafael Sari”, 58

This article focuses on ms. 58 of the Municipal Library of Alghero (Sardinia), recently rediscovered by Maria Teresa Laneri and Andrea Lai of the University of Sassari. Extensively mutilated, the ms. now contains some sections of Vergil’s Aeneid, followed by several texts about Vergil’s biography, Dante Alighieri’s "Epistola" 7 to Henry of Luxembourg, and Petrarch’s "Epystola" 2.5. Thanks to a comparison with other manuscripts, the article shows the affinities between the text of the "Aeneid" and those of other known witnesses, identifies the presence of a medieval anthology of texts related to Vergil, and proposes hypotheses on the reasons that led to combine Dante and Petrarch’s epistles with Vergil’s works.