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Founded in 1946 by Paul Oskar Kristeller, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has become an indispensable research tool for scholars interested in the history of the classical tradition in the West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Each article treats a separate classical author, beginning with a detailed essay on the author's reception from antiquity to A.D. 1600 and, in some cases, even up to the present day. This 'Fortuna' is followed by a comprehensive list both of manuscript and printed commentaries on each Latin author and, in the case of Greek authors, a list of Latin translations as well. Since the publication of the first volume in 1960, the Catalogus has published articles on nearly a hundred classical authors, with dozens more in active preparation. The project boasts an international team of contributors from fourteen countries in Europe and North America. Given the ever-growing interest in the history of classical reception across departments of English, European languages, and comparative literature, the foundational scholarship that is the hallmark of the CTC has become more vital than ever to research in the humanities. In this volume, the eleventh in the series, five full-length articles devoted to Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Zosimus, Procopius of Caesarea, and the fictitious Dares Phrygius are supplemented by addenda and corrigenda to articles previously published on Valerius Maximus, Petronius Arbiter, Martialis, and Martianus Capella.
About the author
Greti Dinkova-Bruun is a Fellow and Librarian of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. She has edited Alexander Ashby's
Opera Poetica for the Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (2004) and
The Ancestry of Jesus: Excerpts from ?Liber Generationis Iesu Christi Filii Dauid Filii Abraham? for Toronto Medieval Latin Texts (2005). Her numerous articles have appeared in
Mediaeval Studies, Viator, Sacris Erudiri, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, and
Archives d?histoire doctrinale et litt?raire du Moyen ?ge, among other journals.
Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Latin at Bryn Mawr College. Her article on Catullus appeared in CTC 7 in 1992. She is the author of
Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993),
The Fortunes of Apuleius and the ?Golden Ass?: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), and
Catullus (2009); she is also the editor and translator of
Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999) and Giovanni Gioviano Pontano's
Dialogues: Charon and Antonius (2012).
James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and general editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, published by Harvard University Press. The author of a seminal study,
Plato in the Italian Renaissance (1990; Italian translation, 2009), he is editor of
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (2007) and (with Fabrizio Meroi)
The Rebirth of Platonic Theology (2013), as well as editor and translator of Leonardo Bruni's
History of the Florentine People (2001-2007) and editor of Marsilio Ficino's
Platonic Theology (2001-2006).