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Nicola Trevet, Landolfo Colonna, Francesco Petrarca
Crevatin, Giuliana
2008
Abstract
In the margins of the famous and sumptuously illustrated codex Parisinus Latinus 5690 (which contains, in addition to Titus Livius, Dictys of Crete and Florus), both Landolfo Colonna and later Francesco Petrarca left, as it were, their trace. Petrarca, and partly Landolfo, used the margins of the Parisian codex to comment upon the text as they read it: their remarks range from thoughts and reactions which establish a comparison between antiquity and their own time, and set up a dialogue with the ancient author, to notes taken in view of composing their own historiographical works. Landolfo devoted himself to filling the margins of the first Livian pages of his precious manuscript by copying extensive excerpts from Nicola Trevet’s commentary, in particular with passages concerning the foundation legend, ancient law and the ancient magistracies.
Series
2008
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Languages
it
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