The use of Macrobius and Boethius in some fourteenth-century commentaries on Virgil.
Four commentators on Virgil, Nicholas Trevet, Francesco Petrarca, Ciones (Zonus) de Magnali, and Benvenuto da Imola, besides citing an abundant number of classical writers, owed a special debt to the late antique authors, Macrobius and Boethius. From Macrobius they quoted passages of antiquarian and...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 3 - 23 |
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