Vita Viri Clarissimi Et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 86, 4.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband berieben, minimale Randl�ren, Knicke im Buchr�cken, Fu�chnitt leicht angeschmutzt, vereinzelt Anstreichungen im Text, handschriftliche Anmerkung auf hinterem Vorsatz / binding rubbed, minimal edgewear, creases on spine, bottom edge slightly soiled, occasional annotations in text, handwritten note on endpaper. - CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SIGLA OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED IN THIS WORK INTRODUCTION LATIN TEXT TRANSLATION NOTES TO THE TRANSLATION APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEXES INTRODUCTION* Ciriaco di Filippo de� Pizzicolli was bom ca. 1391 in Ancona and died some years before 1457, perhaps in Cremona. He was the most enterprising and prolific recorder of Greek and Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the fifteenth century, and the general accuracy of his records entitles him to be called the founding father of modem classical archaeology. The evidence of his activities comes from numerous and often fragmentary manuscripts, many still unpublished, of his travel-journals or commentaria (as he himself termed them), and from his copious correspondence, his literary opuscula and vernacular poems, and his memoranda and common-place books. A fair number of these survive in his own characteristic autograph, but the majority of them survive in the form of copies or extracts by later hands. Any attempt exactly to reconstruct the original order and contents of Ciriaco�s lost commentaria is a task, as Mommsen once wrote, as vain as that of trying to reassemble the scattered leaves of the Sibylline books. The welcome with which Ciriaco�s discoveries were received by such early humanistic scholars as Niccold Niccoli, Leonardo Bruni Aretino, and Francesco Filelfo accorded him, despite Poggio Bracciolini�s distaste for his abominable amateur Latin, an important place in the history of Italian Renaissance humanism. And the probability that, under cover of his trade as an import and export merchant operating in the eastern Mediterranean and the Levant at a time when Christendom was under threat from the Turks, he was the trusted political informant of his patron, Pope Eugenius IV, gives him a not insignificant place in the history of mid-fifteenth century diplomacy. Of Ciriaco�s early life and travels our knowledge rests uniquely�apart from a few early letters and his long retrospective epistle, familiarly known as the �Itinerarium�, addressed to Eugenius IV�on the materials for a Vita put together by his friend and fellow-citizen Francesco Scalamonti, which largely reproduces Ciriaco�s own records and carries his biography down to late 1434 or early 1435. This Vita, as we shall call it, although it claims to be no more than materials for a biography, survives in a single manuscript now in Treviso, which was published with certain omissions and emendations in 1792. Our purpose now is to re-edit Scalamonti�s Vita from the original manuscript with a translation and brief commentary. This introduction deals with the text and its previous publication, its authorship, its sources, and its likely date of composition. It concludes with a chronology of the events narrated in the Vita (excerpt from introduction). ISBN 9780871698643

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