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Between “Catena” Commentary and Marginal Glosses: Towards the Edition of Hilarius of Orléans’ Commentary on the «Aeneid» (12th c.)
No full textIn the 12th century arose a new commentary to Virgil, now attributed to Hilarius of Orléans, who taught in Angers during the early 12th century and was the beginner of the huge tradition of the classical commentaries in Orléans (among his pupils we find brilliant writers such as Arnulf of Orléans or Guillaume de Tyr). His ‘glosule’ (exposition of both littera and sententia), first case of wide application of biblical quotations in order to explain a classical author, took the place of Servius and became, with more than 20 MSS. dated between 12th and 15th century, the most popular medieval commentary to Virgil. Despite the relevance of this lectura, no edition of the text is available, causing a remarkable lack of information in the history of scholarship. The paper – connected with the census for the larger ‘Catalogus translationum et commentariorum’ corpus - will give a quick introduction (5 min.) to the MS. tradition, marked by a varied dissemination: a longer ‘version’ (as in the MS. London, BL, Add. 16380, 12-13th c.); a shorter ‘version’ (best witness: MS. Berlin, SB, lat. fol. 34, 12th c.); at last 7 other MSS. in which glosses appear in the margins of the Virgil text (among them 2 newly discovered MSS., which will be shortly highlighted). The paper will then especially focus (15 min.) on the problems encountered by the work for the critical edition, with methodological considerations: census of the tradition, with special consideration for marginal glosses; comparison of the different ‘versions’; editorial strategies
Review to Nonio Marcello, De conpendiosa doctrina, III. Libri V–XX, ed. by P. Gatti-E. Salvadori, Firenze 2014
No full textUmanisti titolati e di provincia. Biglietti in volgare tra Francesco Barbaro e Bartolomeo Baldana
Full text linkThe paper focuses on Bartolomeo Baldana, lawyer and government official at the Papal
Court during 15th Century, reviewing his biography on the basis of some new documents. It is
thus highlighted its cultural background, which in addition to Venetian Humanism’s Leaders like
Francesco Barbaro and Pietro Donà involved some lesser known Humanists whose studies were nevertheless
devoted to historical features of Latin language. Two vernacular texts written by Baldana
and Barbaro at the time when they were commissioned as public administrators are examined in
the light of these circumstances
Tre note per la fortuna di Marziano Capella
Full text linkThis essay analyzes the connections between the Martianus Capella manuscript tradition and the exegesis of De inventione, focussing in particular on the first medieval commentary of Cicero’s text, in other words Menegaldus’ commentary (XI c.), only recently published and therefore still open to comparison with the De nuptiis. The three cases which are here examined are: the term culleus, an interpolation in the Menegaldus manuscript tradition derived from the exegesis of the commentary to Martianus and the identification by commentators of Ciceron’s quidam (inv. I 2,2) as the first person who was capable of civilizing man thanks to rhetori
Schemata logou (olim De figuris factis per genetivum casum)
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"O terque quaterque beati" (Aen. I 94). Aperçu d'une lecture séculaire
Full text linkAfter Birger Munk Olsen's great and precious work about the manuscripts of classical auctores between the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the bulk of the glosses on the classics from the age of the so-called 'twelfth-century Renaissance' remains unpublished and lacking proper surveys, thus deserving attention. A small but intriguing piece of this enormous puzzle can be seen in the different paths followed through the centuries by the glosses on Aen. 1.94, which includes the first words of Eneas in the poem: O terque quaterque beati. From the twelfth century onwards these words began to receive an allegorical interpretation, tied to the numbers 3 and 4, which is probably connected with the gloss of Guillaume de Conches on Macrobius' quotation of the Virgilian verse itself (comm. 1.6.44). Only in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries did awareness about different roots of the Virgilian numbers begin (e.g. Hom. Od. 5.306
"Salutationes" di origine biblica nei "Precepta prosaici dictaminis" : osservazioni esegetiche e proposte di correzione testuale
No full textPer il commento virgiliano ascritto a Ilario d'Orléans: a proposito delle «glose» al sesto libro dell'«Eneide»
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