Bod-Inc: T-203

Thucydides

Historia belli Peloponnesiaci (trans. Laurentius Valla, ed. Bartholomaeus Parthenius).

 

Analysis of Content

Subject: history

a2r Valla, Laurentius: [Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. ‘Laurentii Vallensis ad sanctissimum Nicolaum Quintum pontificem maximum in Thucydidis historici translationem. | Prooemium'.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uod Aeneas apud Virgilium, Nicolae Quinte Summe Pontifex, ego nunc possum dicere, et quia carmen est etiam decantare ...’ a2v Explicit: ‘... Iam tuum meumque Thucydidem, hoc nanque tecum commune habebo si opus meum probabis agnoscas.’

a3r Thucydides: Historia belli Peloponnesiaci. ‘Thucydidis Historiarum Peloponnenesium liber primus.’ [Translated by Laurentius Valla as stated in his preface]. Incipit: ‘[T]hucydides Athenienses bellum Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque quod inter se gesserunt conscripsit ...’ r5r Explicit: ‘... Dianae sacrificium fecit, dum hyems aestatem hanc insecuta finient, primus quoque ac vicesimus annus finiet.’ The translation was commissioned by Nicolas V, Pontifex Maximus, in 1448, and completed 13 July 1452; see G. B. Alberti, ‘Lorenzo Valla traduttore di Tucidide', in Tradizione classica e letteratura umanistica per Alessandro Perosa, ed. R. Cardini, E. Garin, L. Cesarini Martinelli, and G. Pascucci, 2 vols (Rome, 1985), I 243-53, at 243-4; F. Ferlauto, Il testo della traduzione Valliana di Tucidide (Palermo, 1979), 8 and notes 1-2, with the transmission of Valla's translation at 9-10; R. I. W. Westgate, ‘The Text of Valla's Translation of Thucydides', Transactions of the American Philological Association, 67 (1936), 224-49, at 241 for this edition. On Valla's lost Greek sources, and his translation as a witness, see Thucydides, Historiae, ed. G. B. Alberti (Rome, 1972), pp. cxix–cxxxii; Alberti, ‘Valla traduttore', 243; G. B. Alberti, ‘Tucidide nella traduzione latina di Lorenzo Valla', Studi Filologia di Humanistica Classica, 29 (1957), 224-49; Westgate, ‘Valla's Translation', 226-49. For Valla's errors and divergences from the Greek text see Alberti, ‘Valla traduttore', 244-6; Ferlauto, Traduzione Valliana, 15-55. For Valla's translational strategies see Alberti, ‘Valla traduttore', 247-53.

r5v Parthenius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Tronus. ‘Bartholomaeus Parthenius Benacensis Francisco Throno Ludovici f. Veneti exercitus provisori s.’ Incipit: ‘Apud Flavium Philostratum Dirionem Sardensem Dionysio Milesio sciscitanti respondisse legitur ...’ Explicit: ‘... Historici vita disserentem copiosius audire, pleraque quae impraesentiarum recenseri potuissent consulto omissimus. Vale.’ See Westgate, ‘Valla's Translation', 243-4.

r6r Marcellinus, [pseudo-]: Life of Thucydides. [Translated by Bartholomaeus Parthenius]. ‘Ex Marcellino Graeco Thucydidis Atheniensis vita Bartholomaeo Parthenio Benacensi interprete.’ Incipit: ‘Thucydidae Atheniensi Olori filio Threicium genus fuit ...’ r6v Explicit: ‘... et columna quaedam in coela erecta est hoc monosticho insignita. Thucydides Olori iacet hoc Alimufius antro?’ This ‘Vita' is anonymous; see OCD 922. For the Greek original see Thucydides, Historiae, ed. H. S. Jones and J. E. Powell (Oxford, 1942), no page numbering.

Imprint

Imprint: [Treviso Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis 1483?]. Folio.

Secundo folio: a4r Qua quae deorsum ad mare civitates erant ignarae rei maritimae

Collation

Collation: a–r⁸.

Remarks: Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters.

References

ISTC: it00359000

Hain: HC *15511;

Goff: Goff T‑359;

BMC: BMC VI 896;

Proctor: Pr 6500;

Others: BSB‑Ink T‑340; CIBN T‑263; Hillard, 1972; Oates 2468; Rhodes 1722; Rhodes, Treviso, no. 88; Sheppard 5539.

LCN: 14716931

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