Resumen de Nuovi contributi allo studio de la "Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César" di Londra (British Library, Ms. Royal 20 D I)
Returning to a topic I dealt with previously in 2013, I would like to discuss and present new results concerning the identification of coats of arms introduced in the illuminations "en bas de page" of the Royal 20 D I's narrative cycle, suggesting important, if not essential, arguments for the comprehension of the manuscript itself, its patron and its meta-historical context. Through the study of five armorials, finely painted in "gouache" and dating back to the sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century, showing the coats of arms of eminent lineages of the Angevin Kingdom of Naples -including those of extinguished families- I managed to widen the range of emblems attributed with certainly to the nobility more engaged and politically connected to king Robert I (d. 1343), King of Naples and Sicily, titular King of Jerusalem, Duke of Calabria and Count of Provence and Forcalquier, who commissioned the manuscript, as I had previously proposed. Moreover, a further period of research in London allowed me to exemine in detail certain crests illuminated in the Royal "Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César", which reading, until now, was proved to be uncertain or not univocal.
