Of course, from a material point of view, very different situations can arise. Hence, the object of study of authorial philology, on the one hand, consists in the study of how a text is elaborated, a text whose autograph has come down to us and which bears traces of authorial corrections and revisions (and is therefore an in fieri opus) and, on the other hand, the object of study involves the examination of the various editions themselves, be they handwritten or printed, of a work. These are variants that bear witness to a change in the author’s will, to a more or less significant change of perspective regarding a specific text. 1Authorial philology - a felicitous term coined by Dante Isella (Isella 1987) - differs from philology of the copy (which studies variants introduced through transmission) because it examines the variants introduced by the author himself/herself on the manuscript or on a print.
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