Antonio Da Rho, Three Dialogues Against Lactantius

Dialogi Tres in Lactentium Critical Latin Edition, English Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-49952-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 345/28, 976 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1938 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

Antonio da Rho’s Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1445) followed the lead of Jerome and Augustine yet went well beyond patristic concerns. During the Middle Ages Lactantius’ works, while largely neglected, had enjoyed moments of intense interest and study. From the death of Lactantius (325) to his broad Quattrocento recovery, many profound cultural and intellectual shifts had transpired. Consequently, Rho’s dialogues engage topics arising from scholastic and other debates in jurisprudence, cosmology, astrology, geography, philosophy, and theology. He was convinced that insights from these fields would elucidate errors of Lactantius that his readers had overlooked. This reveals much about the cultural and intellectual developments that shaped readers’ efforts to recover, comprehend, and define Lactantius as an author. Significantly, the list of Lactantius’ errors discussed in the dialogues was printed with nearly every edition of Lactantius through the sixteenth century and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rutherford, David

Schulten, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Works of Antonio da Rho

Introduction

Sigla

Abbreviations in Critical Apparatus

Errors and Treatises

Dialogue 1

Dialogue 2

Dialogue 3

Appendices

Appendix 1: Niccolò Arcimboldi, Glosses on the Three Dialogues against Lactantius

Appendix 2: Francesco Filelfo, Letter to Antonio da Rho

Appendix 3: Pier Candido Decembrio, Letter to Antonio da Rho

Bibliography

Manuscript Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Rutherford, Professor Emeritus of History, Central Michigan University, has concentrated on the Medieval and Renaissance reception of Firmianus Lactantius. He also published Early Renaissance Invective and the Controversies of Antonio da Rho (2005).

Paul Schulten, retired Associate Professor of History, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, wrote De Circumcellionen (1984) and has written about military history and ancient humor, including “Castiglione and Cicero: Wit and Laughter in the Book of the Courtier” (2013).