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A Late Medieval Knight Reflecting on his Public Life: Hugo de Urriés (c. 1405-c. 1493), Diplomacy and Translating the Classics
No full textThis article focuses on Aragonese courtier Hugo de Urriés's public profile by means of analyzing the critical points derived from examining his personal, political, cultural and historical stands making use of an invaluable primary source, his letter to Fernando the Catholic in the early 1490s. It is not often that the medieval scholar is presented with the chance to analyze a self-evident symbiosis between the public and private personae of a late medieval knight. As part of Urriés's public profile, his translation of Valerius Maximus and his foreword to King Fernando of Aragón are contextualized as an integral part of an agenda of legitimization of royal and imperial power, an agenda in which Urriés actively participated and one that he militantly promoted throughout his life. This article juxtaposes diplomacy, courtliness and translation of classics as a means of showcasing some of the markers of nation building in the years of the reign of the Catholic Monarchs
Valerius Maximus historian of Rome.
No full textThe topic of this thesis is Valerius Maximus' value as a Roman historian. Therefore, the contents of the thesis are concerned only with the passages in Valerius Maximus' book On Memorable Deeds and Sayings, which deal directly with Roman history. Also, because of the nature of this thesis, I have used only those passages which relate events from 300 B.C. to 14 A.D. I have endeavoured, throughout this thesis, to present a purely objective study of Valerius Maximus. In order to do this, all facets involving the information of the said period of Roman history, which is included in his book, have been shown. My work is divided into four chapters. [...
Verecundia in Livy and Valerius Maximus
No full textThis thesis considers the ways in which Livy and Valerius Maximus integrate the Roman emotion verecundia into their exemplary pasts. It asks what nuance verecundia adds to the moral and historical narratives in which it is embedded. By so doing, this thesis achieves three interwoven objectives. It deepens our understanding of how verecundia was conceptualised during the Principate; provides new interpretations of the ways in which literature explored and engaged the (exemplary) past to explore moral issues; and, consequently, reveals something of the concerns of each author within their socio-political milieu. Both Livy and Valerius Maximus extend and adapt Cicero's philosophical conceptualisation of verecundia as a moral quality that regulates appropriate behaviour. Livy's use of verecundia reflects an anxiety about ethical governance and its effect on Rome's imperial reputation, which challenges traditional understandings of Livy as a patriotic author whose history legitimises Roman hegemony. Complementary analysis of Valerius Maximus' collection of moral-didactic anecdotes (exempla) reveals the complex workings of verecundia as a social mechanism which produces 'correct' behaviour. Valerius' assertion that domestic officium et verecundia are the foundation of territorial acquisitions extends Livy's thinking as it recognises a symbiotic relationship between the behaviour of the Roman elite and their imperial endeavours. Comparison of Livy and Valerius' treatment of verecundia in episodes about women exposes how gendered assumptions about proper female conduct have distorted modern scholarship's translation and interpretation of the original Latin texts. This thesis demonstrates that verecundia was understood as a vital social, political, and cultural quality that was integral to recognisably honourable action in all spheres of life, both at home and abroad.</p
The image of pontifex maximus in Valerius Maximus
No full textThe image of pontifex maximus is remarkable for some duality. On the one hand, Valerius Maximus leans on historical facts of the Classical Republic. On the other hand, examples are presented thus that they give an unexpected shade to the image of this priest. Valerius Maximus applies to the image of pontifex maximus of the classical civitas a number features, reflecting specificity of this priesthood of the period of early Empire. However it is not simple filling of the traditional form by the new contents. To the author’s mind this position can be regarded as some synthesis, according to which the deep basis of the image of pontifex maximus, going back to values of classical republic, is harmoniously supplemented with a line of characteristics (accents on independence of religious authority). Such synthesis (at the heart of which there were ideals of the republican past) reflected in many respects features of a religious and ideological situation of becoming system of Principate
Valerius Maximus and Exemplum
Get PDFValerius Maximus' exempla collection, Facta et dicta memorabilia, has for a long time stayed out of focus of modern literary science. Viewed rather as a practical handbook for orators, it had earned criticism for its allegedly low literary value, especially in the first half of the 20th century. Although this view was later revised at least to some extent, and Valerius was admitted to have literary ambitions in so far that his work was characterized as an original literary achievement of an author who in his collection presented a summary of moral values and standards of his time, the interest in his work has stayed rather fragmented, with researchers preferring to analyze only its specific aspects (such as ethics, religion, historical reflection, etc.). This thesis aims for a comprehensive view of Valerius' collection as a whole against the analysis of theoretical interpretation of exemplum as preserved within the Roman theoretical rhetorical writings. The interpretation is performed by the analysis of the whole, examining the way the entire collection is arranged, through the description of the structure and division of individual chapters, down to the level of the core structural unit, the exemplum. It emphasizes information related to the work's focus or to the inclusion of specific topics that Valerius..
Exemplary Reading. Printed Renaissance Commentaries on Valerius Maximus (1470-1600)
No full textA remarkably neglected way of entering the Wirkungsgeschichte of Valerius Maximus myriad of rhetorical anecdotes in his Memorable Deeds and Sayings (Facta et dicta memorabilia) is an in-depth study of his Renaissance commentators from the 14th up to the 17th century. Since scholars from Petrarch onwards treated classical texts both as documents of historical interest, which could make the ancient world live again, and as ideal and timeless objects for literary imitation in the present, commentaries prove to be an indirect yet fascinating route both to Valerius collection of exempla and its narrative force.In this research project it is investigated how Renaissance commentaries on Valerius Maximus, dating from the generation following Petrarch and including the influential commentaries by Oliverius Arzignanensis (Venice, 1487), Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris, 1510), Henricus Glareanus (Basle, 1550), and Stephanus Pighius (Antwerp, 1574), functioned in their cultural and literary context. In a second stage the question is raised how this commentary tradition, inspired by Petrarch and his contemporaries in the intellectual and literate milieu of 14th-century Avignon to various degrees, led to a new, humanist vision on Valerius Maximus and his rhetorical use of exempla. As such it is argued how this humanist reading of Valerius Maximus collection elicited both a new aesthetics of composition and a shifting use of ideologically useful exempla in the 14th up to the 17th centuries.status: Publishe
Dictorum et Factorum Memorabilium Libri Novem, with the commentary of Oliverius Arzignanensis
No full textValerius Maximus, Dictorum et Factorum Memorabilium Libri Novem, with the commentary of Oliverius Arzignanensis.
Early binding of beech boards, quarter-bound in blind-stamped pigskin. Pastedowns from accounts, partly in German; partially obscured by slightly later paper, the years 1592, 1593, 1603 and 1604 visible. Two brass clasps from the rear to catches at the front. Spine liners of manuscript.
Pr. Albertinus de Lisona Vercellensis, Venice, 22 May 1505.
On the title page ‘Emptus est hic liber 4 vrsis’; ‘Bibliothecae Pauperum ad S. Paulum Ratisponae [i.e. Regensburg’] 1619’; ‘Donald Dudgeon Hutchins School Hobart 1921 – 1922 – 1923.’ From the Library of Christ College.
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Hans-Friedrich MUELLER, Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus.
No full textRaepsaet-Charlier Marie-Thérèse. Hans-Friedrich MUELLER, Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus.. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 72, 2003. pp. 471-472
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