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Aesopi Fabulae Hermolao Barbaro Seniore Interprete

A cura di Cristina Cocco

HB pp. VI-155, € 42,00

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2007
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978-88-8450-250-6
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The Latin translation of thirty-three fables by Aesop completed in 1422 by Hermolaus Barbarus senior (?1410-1471) represents the oldest dated document - perhaps the very first - of the humanistic rediscovery of the Greek storyteller, whom the Middle Ages had known only indirectly in Latin. The short Greek anthology that Guarino Guarini gave to his teenage student Hermolaus as a school exercise has come down to us in three manuscripts and occupies an important place as the object of three distinct versions among the translations of Aesop in the first half of the Quattrocento. The first of these by Barbarus, future bishop of Verona, remained unpublished until the twentieth century and cannot claim a manuscript tradition or print editions comparable to the subsequent and better known translation by Lorenzo Valla, which circulated throughout Europe as an insertion in large collections of fables. At any rate, together with the version attributed to Guarino Veronese, this one has left us unique evidence for understanding Guarini's teaching methods and the verse practices in use in one of the most important Greek schools of the period.
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