Dr. Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University) will give a lecture on the manuscripts that shaped the Troy story in medieval Italy. All are welcome. Five of the roughly fifteen extant manuscripts and fragments of the "Roman de Troie" made on the Italian peninsula in the fourteenth century have extensive visual programs; St. Petersburg, RNB fr. F. v. XIV .3 is one of the more lavishly illustrated of these five manuscripts. The illustrations in these Italian-produced manuscripts exhibit a shared iconography that is entirely distinct from the visual programs found in "Roman de Troie" manuscripts produced in the Kingdom of France. This paper will use the illustrations to the amatory episode of Troilus and Briseida in the St. Petersburg manuscript to suggest how this shared iconography might have migrated throughout the peninsula.
Originally published at romancelanguages.nd.edu.