Le demegorie protrettiche di Costantino VII Porfirogenito. Nuova edizione e traduzione

The important military codex Ambrosianus B 119 sup., commissioned by the parakoimomenos Basil Lekapenos between 959 and 963, preserves two harangues attributed to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, which were composed in 950 and 958 to be read to the Byzantine soldiers involved, along the eastern frontiers, against the powerful Hamdanid emir of Mosul and Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. The article proposes a critical re-edition and translation of these two texts, offering, on one hand, substantial corrections of the previous editions of Hélène Ahrweiler (1967) and Rudolph Vári (1908), basing, on the other hand, on two apographes of the Ambrosianus (Par. gr. 3111 and Par. suppl. gr. 270) so far not considered, and presenting moreover the two demegoriai in accordance with recent methodological indications about the orthography of Greek medieval manuscripts.