Notai letterati nel Mezzogiorno tardo-medievale e nella prima età umanistica. Appunti da un’indagine in corso

The perusal of some recent repertories and databases, relative to the entire span of the Middle Ages, leaves little room for imagination: while in Northern and Central Italy, one comes across a surprising number of authors of Latin works of the most varied genres (historiography, poetry, philosophy, treatises), professionally qualified as notaries, in our Mezzogiorno, the cases so far found of notaries who are also writers of works in Latin - more or less ambitious from a literary point of view - are very few indeed. Nicola de Martoni and Angelo Crassullo are particularly significant among them.