Uno zibaldone quattrocentesco in volgare romanesco (Reg. lat. 352): considerazioni sulla fonetica
Barocello’s “zibaldone” (Reg. Lat. 352): a forgotten source for the study of romanesco of the 15th century

Summary/Abstract: This study analyzes various texts in romanesco preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Library (Reg. Lat. 352). It’s an ancient and a miscellaneus code, probably written between 1434 and 1449 (Vattasso 1903: 16). The manuscript was written mostly by one writer, a man of mediocre education, whose life has remained unknown. In fact, we don’t know nothing about him aside from his name: Stefano Barocello. This code was discovered only at the beginning of the last century by Vattasso, but it has never been fully edited, not even a linguistic commentary has been available until now (only Ernst in 1966 provided a partial edition of it with a small, but not negligible, linguistic commentary). The manuscript was almost forgotten due to its dreadful conditions and due to its diversified content, defined by Petrucci (1988: 1249-1250) «caotico zibaldone personale». These texts, with no literary purpose, represent an essential source for linguistic studies being the portrayal of the real spoken language of Rome in the 15th century. A new edition of these texts will be presented with a linguistic commentary of the most meaningful phenomena.

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