Riccardo da Venosa, «De Paulino et Polla» 325 e la fortuna medievale di un “incipit” boeziano

Abstract

Richard of Venosa’s De Paulino et Polla is a latin “elegiac comedy” of the XIIIth century. Line 325 of the text («Per Salvatorem mundi qui cuncta gubernat») is inspired by a rich and various hymnological tradition, whose principal source is Boethius, Cons. Phil. III, carm. 9,1 (O qui perpetua mundi ratione gubernas), incipit who knew a big diffusion in medieval poetry.