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A portion of the text ((% style="line-height: 1.42857;" %)//locus//(%%)) in which the various witnesses display significant(% class="confluence-link" style="line-height: 1.42857;" %) [[errors>>doc:stemmatology.Error.WebHome]](%%) (cf. also [[variant location>>doc:stemmatology.Variant location.WebHome]]). The choice of a number of (% style="line-height: 1.42857;" %)//loci critici (selecti) //(%%)allows the editor to establish a (% style="line-height: 1.42857;" %)//[[stemma>>doc:stemmatology.Stemma.WebHome]]//(%%) in traditions that are hardly assessable in their entirety due to their width.

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A recent coinage from Latin //locus //"passage, portion (of a text)" and //criticus //in the modern sense of "used for interpreting practice"; the (optional) adjective// selectus //alludes to the fact that the passage has been chosen for critical purposes. Though the expression seems to be first attested in the 1970s (see Balduino 1979), both [[Maas>>doc:stemmatology.Maas, Paul.WebHome]] (first ed. 1927) and [[Pasquali>>doc:stemmatology.Pasquali, Giorgio.WebHome]] (1952, first ed. 1934) had already introduced the similar notion of "[[collation>>doc:stemmatology.Collation.WebHome]] by samples".

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(% style="color: rgb(35,31,32);" %)The most important editions of Dante's (% style="color: rgb(35,31,32);line-height: 1.42857;" %)//Divine Comedy//(% style="color: rgb(35,31,32);" %) are based on the scrutiny of (% style="color: rgb(35,31,32);line-height: 1.42857;" %)//loci critici//(% style="color: rgb(35,31,32);" %): 396 of them from 200 witnesses in Barbi's preparatory work (known as "Barbi's canon"), and 477 in Petrocchi's edition (for further information see Brandoli 2007); in his 2001 edition of the (% style="color: rgb(35,31,32);line-height: 1.42857;" %)//Comedy, //(% style="color: rgb(35,31,32);" %)Federico Sanguineti goes back to Barbi's canon extending the collation to more than 500 witnesses.

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**References**

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– Balduino, Armando. 1979. //Manuale di filologia italiana. //Firenze: Sansoni.

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– Brandoli, Caterina. 2007. “Due canoni a confronto: I luoghi di Barbi e lo scrutinio di Petrocchi.” In //Nuove prospettive sulla tradizione della “Commedia”~:// //Una guida filologico-linguistica al poema dantesco//, edited by Paolo Trovato, 99–214. Firenze: Cesati.

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– Maas, Paul. 1960. //Textkritik//. 4th ed. Leipzig: Teubner. – First ed. 1927.

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– Pasquali, Giorgio. 1952. //Storia della tradizione e critica del testo//. 2nd ed. Firenze: Le Monnier. – First ed. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1934.

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– Petrocchi, Giorgio (ed.). 1994. //Dante Alighieri. La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata//. Second revised ed. Firenze: Le Lettere. – First ed. 1965-67.

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– Sanguineti, Federico (ed.). 2001. //Dantis Alagherii Comedia//. Firenze: Edizioni del Galluzzo.

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