Book/Printed Material Commentaries by Domizio Calderini on Works by Juvenal, Statius, Ovid, and Propertius. Commentarii in satiras Iuvenalis; In silvas Statii; In Sappho Ovidii; In Propertii loca interpretatio; Ex libro observationum
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Title
- Commentaries by Domizio Calderini on Works by Juvenal, Statius, Ovid, and Propertius.
Other Title
- Commentarii in satiras Iuvenalis; In silvas Statii; In Sappho Ovidii; In Propertii loca interpretatio; Ex libro observationum
Summary
- Under the influence of Italian humanism and of his book-collector tutor János Vitéz, the Archbishop of Esztergom, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1443--1490), developed a passion for books and learning. Elected king of Hungary in 1458 at the age of 14, Matthias won great acclaim for his battles against the Ottoman Turks and his patronage of learning and science. He created the Bibliotheca Corviniana, in its day one of Europe's finest libraries. After his death, and especially after the conquest of Buda by the Turks in 1541, the library was dispersed and much of the collection was destroyed, with the surviving volumes scattered all over Europe. This codex, originally in the Corvinus Library and now preserved in the Medicea Laurenziana Library in Florence, dates from the late 1480s. It contains works written in the mid-1470s by Domizio Calderini (1447--78), a courtier, scholar, humanist, and controversial literary commentator, who was born in the province of Verona and died in Rome. Included here are his commentaries on Juvenal's Satires, Publius Papinius Statius's Silvae, Ovid's Letter of Sappho, and works by the elegiac poet Sextus Propertius. The Bibliotheca Corviniana Collection was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2005.
Names
- Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478 Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1488 to 1490]
Headings
- - Greece
- - Italy
- - 1 to 500
- - Codex
- - Illuminations
- - Juvenal
- - Memory of the World
- - Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
- - Propertius, Sextus, circa 50 B.C.-15 A.D
- - Statius, Publius Papinius, circa 45-circa 95
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 240 leaves : parchment ; 348 x 230 millimeters.
- - Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, The World of the Aztecs in the Florentine Codex, (Mandragora: 2007).
- - Original resource at: Medicea Laurenziana Library, Florence.
- - Content in Latin.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Bibliotheca Corviniana
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667836
Online Format
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