[PW] Italian phrase used by publishers

[Nichael Cramer]

>Quoting Edward Franchuk <ed_franchuk at hotmail.com>: [...]
> > Me: But that's exactly what a critical edition means in the world of
> > literary studies: an edition that contains not just the text but
> > various kinds of commentary on that text in the way of introduction,
> > footnotes, appendices, etc. In over 40 years in the feild I have
> > never heard it used in the sense you have assigned it. Edward

Another, more specific usage of the term "critical edition" is used
in many fields to describe editions which indicate primarily 
variations in the text.

That is, rather than containing commentary on, say, the "meaning" of the text,
per se, a "critical edition" in this sense lists variant readings available
from diverse sources, often with some indication of more likely
original reading.   For example, this is the typical mean of a "critical
edition" of, say, a Greek New Testament.

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