
Antonio da Rho, Three Dialogues against Lactantius
Dialogi tres in Lactentium Critical Latin Edition, English Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 6. April 2023
Book
Hardback
988 pages
978-90-04-49952-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Latin
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
1538 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-49952-2 (9789004499522)
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Persons
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).
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).
Content
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: Niccolo 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
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: Niccolo 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