Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum V.13: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813213002 ISBN 13: 9780813213002

Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003

Synopsis

This work illustrates the impact of Greek and Latin texts on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It furnishes concrete evidence of when, where, andhow an ancient author was known and appreciated in monastic, university, and humanist circles. Each article presents a historical survey of the influence and circulation of a particular author down to the present, followed by a listing and brief description of Latin commentaries before 1600 on each of his works. In this edition, Volume III, six authors are treated in separate articles: Damianus; Geminus Rhodius; Hanno; Sallust; Themistius; and Thucydides. Thucydides and Sallust were major historians. Damianus and Geminus Rhodius influenced optics and astronomy. Themistius provided a useful service to later students of Aristotle by paraphrasing Aristotle's treatises on logic, psychology, and natural science. Hanno's account of a voyage around the coast of West Africa has been regarded as a motivating factor behind the explorations of Vasco da Gama and Pedro Alvares Cabral and was cited in controversies involving the Portuguese and Spanish claims to the coasts of Africa and America.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813213002
• ISBN 13: 9780813213002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Brown Virginia, Hankins James, Kaster Robert A.