The subject of the present work is the Lògica del Gatzell by Ramon Llull, a verse compendium based on al-Ghazālī’s Maqāṣid al-falāsifah and Peter of Spain’s Tractatus, to which the author added some elements of his personal thought. This is Ramon Llull’s first vernacular work, which, on the basis of the opinions of Jordi Rubió and Charles Lohr, has been insofar considered the transposition into vernacular verse of the Compendium logicae Algazelis, itself a translation of an Arabic compendium. The preparatory study for the new critical edition, however, required a further comparative analysis of the two texts, also in relation to the Arabic and Latin sources, which revealed problematic cases that challenge the commonly accepted compositional process. Through the discussion of a series of textual comparisons, a new hypothesis has been formulated about the relationship between the two compendia.
