Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries (in English)
Synopsis "Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries (in English)"
Considered a definitive source for scholars and students, this highly acclaimed series illustrates the impact of Greek and Latin texts on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In publication since 1960 and now in its eighth volume, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum furnishes concrete evidence of when, where, and how 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 an exhaustive listing and brief description of Latin commentaries before 1600 on each of his works. For Greek authors, a full listing of pre-1600 translations into Latin is also provided. Sources of translations and commentaries include both printed editions and texts available only in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.In the newest addition to the series, Volume VIII, six authors are treated in separate articles: Damianus, Geminus Rhodius, Hanno, Sallust, Themistius, and Thucydides. This volume is especially notable for its variety. Thucydides and Sallust were major historians and the interest their works generated--in such diverse figures as Macchiavelli, Thomas More, and Thomas Hobbes--has continued unabated. 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 Álvares Cabral and was cited in controversies involving the Portuguese and Spanish claims to the coasts of Africa and America. A list of addenda and corrigenda to four previously published articles (Columella, Tacitus, Vegetius, Xenophon) concludes the volume. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Virginia Brown is Professor of Latin Palaeography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University. Robert A. Kaster is Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Princeton University. Contributors to the volume include Michael Idomir Allen, José-Ignacio García Armendáriz, David Marsh, Monique Mund-Dopchie, Patricia J. Osmond, Marianne Pade, Robert B. Todd, and Robert W. Ulery, Jr.PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "The scholarship is impeccable throughout. Authors and editors are to be congratulated on another excellent volume in a distinguished and very useful series."--Paul F. Grendler, Renaissance Quarterly"The major problem in reviewing volumes in this series lies in finding enough superlatives to do them justice. Each volume represents the ideals of international scholarly collaboration at their best...."--Craig Kallendorf, Neo-Latin News"It is impossible to overstate the importance of this series. For one thing, the information collected during the lengthy process of preparing these articles in turn becomes the basis for further work in a surprising number of areas.... For those who are interested, the data for many, many research projects can be gleaned from the pages of the CTC. Like many other people working in the classical tradition, I am constantly asked where one can go for information on a Greek or Latin author in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The answer, quite simply, is, 'here.'-- Allegorica"Anyone who pursues studies in the Classics will eventually come across the largest research project ever conducted in the field: the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (CTC).... The CTC illustrates through its own sheer magnitude the immeasurable influence that the study of the Classics had on the development and thought throughout the Middle Ages and beyond.... The groundwork the CTC has been--and is s
