Editing Calvino. Per l'edizione critico-genetica di «Palomar»

This paper seeks to lay the foundation for the development of a critical-genetic edition of Palomar by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. After a brief overview about the discipline – authorial philology – the study presents an initial survey of the materials concerning the work and an outline of its compositional history. Subsequently, the paper moves toward the textual analysis of the published text and its early stages, trying to point out the emerging variants, in order to elaborate a methodology for the edition of the text and the pretext. In the end, the paper points out that the author clearly followed a precise corrective procedure in the elaboration of his work, and that this will be useful for the purposes of its critical-genetic edition.