Alle fonti orali della Povest’ strašna: un contributo alla ricostruzione dell’itinerario di Massimo il Greco in Occidente

The article aims at completing the investigation into the sources of the Povest’ strašna i dostopamjatna i o soveršennom inočeskom žitel’stve (Terrible and memorable narrative, and about the perfect monastic lifestyle) by Maximus the Greek. The Povest’, which probably belongs to the first Slavic period of the author’s production, consists of two narratives; the first concerns the Kingdom of France, the University of Paris, the Grande Chartreuse, and the Carthusian order, and the second Italy, Girolamo Savonarola and the Dominican order. A philological study of the first narrative led to a typology of the sources the author used: direct eye-witness, written, and oral. The eye-witness and written testimony were recovered independently and relate to all the contents of the Povest’ except the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris. Maximus’s source for them must be oral accounts. The present author strives to identify the sources using authoritative biographies of Maximus, the results of recent studies in the fields of paleography and philology, and relevant Slavic material. The findings are additionally expected to cast light on Maximus the Greek’s Italian period, leading to a better knowledge of his journey in the West.