Gerusalemme Liberata comparisons

The following materials supplement my essay “Staging the Liberata’s Female Protagonists in an Apenninic Folk Tradition: Clorinda, Erminia, and Armida in the Tuscan-Emilian Epic Maggio,” in Letteratura cavalleresca italiana 1 (2019): 119-35.

List of episodes in which Erminia, Clorinda, and Armida appear in the 6 maggi listed below, searchable by stanza number.

Spreadsheet available in Excel and Numbers comparing the verses sung by the characters of Erminia, Clorinda, and Armida in the following 6 maggi (verses in yellow blocks are present in 2 maggi; verses in orange blocks are present in 3 or more maggi):

  1. Anonymous, La Gerusalemme Liberata ovvero Il Goffredo, Lucca, Piazza dell’Erba, 1895, 393 stanzas.
  2. Anonymous, La Gerusalemme Liberata secondo il testo adottato dalla Compagnia di Pieve San Lorenzo, Regnano (LU MS), edited by Gastone Venturelli, Pisa, Buti, 1978, 261 stanzas.
  3. Giuliano Bertagni, Tancredi e Clorinda, edited by Daniela Menchelli, Lucca, Centro Tradizioni Popolari, 1980, 151 stanzas.
  4. Anonymous, La Gerusalemme Liberata, Copied from a manuscript preserved by the maestra Teresa Rossi, widow of Romiti, Gazzano, 1981, 621 stanzas.
  5. Anonymous, Gerusalemme Liberata, Compagnia Maggistica «Monte Cusna» di Asta, transcribed by Domenico Notari and Coli Primo, 1933, transcribed by Laura Artioli, 1976, Villa Minozzo (RE), Centro Culturale «A. Benedetti,» 1984, 408 stanzas.
  6. Anonymous, La Gerusalemme Liberata secondo il testo adottato dai Maggianti di Gorfigliano, edited by Antonio De Angeli, 1985, Comunità Montana delle Apuane, Circoscrizione n. 1. Comune di Masa, Quaderno 3, 216 stanzas. Includes a transcription of additional stanzas from an older version of 325 stanzas (T) that was performed by the same company at the beginning of the century and in 1946.

My thanks to Steve Baker for creating the spreadsheet and to Nomuundari Batdelger for her copyediting.

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Erminia (Giulia Coli), Armida (Ada Saccaggi), Clorinda (Anfrosina Coloretti) for the performance of the maggio Gerusalemme Liberata in Villa Minozzo (RE) in 1939.

 

Clorinda (Olga Coloretti) and Argante (Fiore Mercanti) in a performance of the maggio Gerusalemme Liberata in Villa Minozzo (RE) in 1946:

The above two images are taken from La Gerusalemme liberata, edited by Orfeo Coloretti, Museo del Maggio, Comune di Villa Minozzo [RE]), 309 stanzas, 2008. Transcribed in 1939 for two performances by the maggio company of Villa Minozzo, also performed between 1946 and 1952 in the Reggio Emilia Apennines.

Go to the Epic Maggio Scripts page to download maggio versions of the Gerusalemme liberata.