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Itinera Classica [ISSN 1863-9488] Edited by Hans-Jürgen Horn and Christiane Reitz

[ ICL 7 ]

Bartolomeo della Fonte.
Adnotationes in Valerii Flacci Argonautica.
Commentary of Valerius Flaccus [edition].

Critical edition of the handwritten commentary on the Editio Princeps Bologna 1471,
a volume of the Edizione Rare 431 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, with an index of conjectures and variants.

Nikolaus Thurn (Ed.)

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The Humanist Bartolomeo della Fonte, also Bartholomaeus Fontius, was born in Florence in 1446 and worked at the court of Borso d‘Este in Ferrara from 1469 onwards. From 1471 he was back to Florence and later he also worked in Rome, Ragusa / Dubrovnik, and Buda. He made numerous translations, editions, and commentaries of antique texts such as speeches by Demosthenes or satires by Persius. Additionally, he held substantial lectures and wrote his own prose, e. g. a description of the city of Rome, and poems, e. g. a collection of elegies. He died near Florence in 1513. The present edition is dedicated to Fontius‘s own copy of the first printed edition of the Argonautica [Bologna 1474], which contains many handwritten commentaries by himself. According to colour and line width they can be attributed to at least five chronological layers beginning with his public explanations of the text in the academical years of 1475/76, 78/79, 81/82, and 1503/04. The value of Fontius‘s text criticism lies in the fact that many of his changes and conjectures appear in later editions and some are even better than the ones in existing editions.

Content:	323 pages		Cover:	Paperback
Text:	German, Italian		Size:	15,6 x 22,0 cm (8°)
Abstracts in other languages:	none		weight:	680 g
Keywords:	history of research, Renaissance, Roman Empire		Series:	Itinera Classica
			ISSN:	1863-9488
			ISBN-13:	978-3-86757-103-6
			ISBN-10:	3-86757-103-1
			Place of Publication:	Rahden/Westf.
Price:	34,80 €		Date of Publication:	2009