In the 1976 edition of Anton Francesco Grazzini’s La Strega, the author of this article found reason to suspect the textual differences between the Magl. VII 1385 autograph version and the 1582 editions published by the Giunti of Venise in 12° and in 8°. M. Durante has since sought to rehabilitate these differences as corrections that Grazzini would have entered himself. This article relies on a new comparison between these three sources in order to address the question in a new light from the perspective of Grazzini’s intention, in the mid 1570’s, of having his works published. The analysis of both editions shows that from a manuscript which, according to M. Plaisance, did not significantly differ from the autograph manuscript Grazzini had approved shortly before the edition, the comedy was in fact censured in Venice, as well as rewritten and adapted for a non-Florentine audience by a redactor. This latter had absolutely no sense of theatrical space, he shortened many lines and was obsessed with filtering out the repetitions. One should then carefully distinguish between editorial variants and author’s corrections.  

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Original publication: Plaisance, Michel. "L’Inquiétante tradition de La Strega de Lasca. Variantes d’auteur ou réécriture éditoriale ?." Renaissance and Reformation 41 (4): 2019. 43-91. DOI: 10.7202/1061914ar. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.