Collection
Dionysius Periegetes - Pomponius Mela. Dionysii Alex. et Pomp. Melae Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici Cosmographia. C. I. Solini Polyistor... [Geneva], Henry Stephanos, 1577.
Dionysius, a poet of the second century ad, lived mainly in Rome where he worked as a librarian and wrote his Periegeses tis oecoumenes in hexameters in the Callimachian style and which soon acquired a significant place as a school text book. The importance given to the Periegeses by the Italian Humanists is evidenced by the ten integral incunable editions (-1550), all in Latin translation by scholars of the class of A. Beccaria, Priscianus and P. Leto. Henry Stephanos informs his readers that he proceeded to a fresh edition, thirty years after his father had published the work (1547), though it merely became out of print. He specifies in fact that he has made corrections to the original text and that he has added his own Latin translation.
Format:
24,5 cm
Page description:
Renouard, Annales, 145 (5) • Moeckli, 89 • Schreiber, 200
References:
Renouard, Annales, 145 (5) • Moeckli, 89 • Schreiber, 200
Entity:
Renaissance – Humanism
Item Type:
Book
