“Itala fata” e “fata libelli”. Spunti interpretativi sui frammenti del Planctus Italie di Eustachio da Matera, fonte di Boccaccio e Collenuccio

The article collects and examines the tradition of all the fragments of the lost poem Planctus Italie by Eustachius of Matera. The author wrote his work in 1270, when he was in exile after the battle of Tagliacozzo (1268). The Planctus was divided at least in 5 books, and had perhaps an annalistic structure. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Planctus had quite a good fortune, and was mentioned by Paulus Perusinus and Boccaccio; it was still used by Pandolfo Collenuccio at the beginning of the sixteenth century. In the seventeenth century, instead, the text went lost, and the scholars cited it only indirectly.