Filologia della ricezione: i copisti come attori della tradizione

The success of reception theory during the last decades influenced romance philology, which is more and more focussed on the synchronic level represented by the manuscript than on the dyachronic development of the manuscript tradition: the reader is more important than the author. Some examples from italian lyric poetry (Dante, Boccaccio, Burchiello) and from french narratives (Chanson de Roland, Roman de Troie, Guiron le Courtois) show that a true philology of reception is possible only through a genealogical (stemmatical) approach.