Georgii Vallae placentini in Iuvenalis Satyras Commentarii

The present thesis intends to be the first critical edition of the commentary on the Satires of Juvenal published by Giorgio Valla (1447-1500) in Venice in 1486. The significance of this commentary that holds many meaningful traces of the corpus of scholia vetustiora on Juvenal under the name of an otherwise unknown Probus, has been recognized by scholars in the last century. The thesis is divided in four sections: introduction, note on text, commentary with apparatus, indexes. The introduction exposes an outline on the juvenalian studies and lectures in the second half of XVth century undertaken by scholars such as Angelo Sabino, Domizio Calderini and Giorgio Merula, focusing on the more significant contributions of the Giorgio Valla's commentary in the textual criticism and exegesis of the Satires. The introduction also includes a brief summing-up of the classical sources, latin and greek, openly mentioned or word-for-word quoted in the commentary. The note on text deals with the editing standards used in this thesis and also contains some marks on the relationship between the lemmas of the commentary and the text of Juvenal whose margins were filled by the commentary, according to an usual typographic dress for scholastic texts, attempting to define which kinds of handwritten sources of the Satires Valla was able to handle with. The third section is the outright commentary (extended on more than 300 pages in modern format) with a textual apparatus arranged in footnotes that also includes some references to classical sources used but not outspoken by the humanist. The thesis is concluded by three different kinds of indexes (index of classical sources, index of variants, index of names) thought as an useful help for scholars who in future will need to consult this commentary.