An Italian Text in Syro-Xenic Clothes: The Italo-Garšūnī Pasquin Borg. Ar. 278, ff. 1r–2vRivista degli Studi OrientaliSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ZMB2G2TR/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Delio VaniaProverbioAn Italian Text in Syro-Xenic Clothes: The Italo-Garšūnī Pasquin Borg. Ar. 278, ff. 1r–2vhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ZMB2G2TRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/ZMB2G2TRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/ZMB2G2TRRivista degli Studi Orientali93:1202093-107The present contribution aims at presenting what turns out to be the only Italo-Garšūnī text ‒ an Italian text written in Syriac script ‒ until now detected. This astonishing textual specimen ‒ embedded in a bundle of loose paper sheets filled with pages and pages of densely scribbled texts written in Arabic and Garšūnī script (datable to the very beginning of the eighteenth century) ‒ resulted from the emergence of an extremely rare kind of Syro-xenic transcoding process. For unknown reason, an anonymous author felt the compelling need of ‘encrypting’ an otherwise perfectly plane, literary Italian text into a Sertō-garšūnī transcription, with hiring a (possibly Maronite) copyist to whom he dictated his poetical barbs. Actually, such a composition in hendecasyllables ‒ organized in ABBA enclosed-rhyme quatrains ‒ targets a number of curial prelates of late seventeenth century Rome its author earnestly wished they would never become cardinals. A number of topics and issues addressing the underlying system of grapheme-to-phoneme relationships are here discussed. Proverbio, Delio Vania. “An Italian Text in Syro-Xenic Clothes: The Italo-Garšūnī Pasquin Borg. Ar. 278, Ff. 1r–2v.” Rivista Degli Studi Orientali 93:1 (2020): 93–107. Delio Vania Proverbio, An Italian Text in Syro-Xenic Clothes: The Italo-Garšūnī Pasquin Borg. Ar. 278, Ff. 1r–2v, Rivista Degli Studi Orientali 93:1 (2020): 93–107.Arab ChristiansKarshuniMaronitesSyriac influence [Europe]VII-XVIII CEXVIII CEpoetry