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The Lost Translation Made by Ambrosius Traversarius of the Orations of Gregory Nazianzene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Agnes Clare Way
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From letters of Ambrosius Traversarius, edited by Cannetus and published with the Vita Ambrosii Traversarii of Mehus, it is known that Ambrosius Traversarius translated the Vita Gregorii Nazianzeni written by Gregorius Presbyter and also four orations of Gregory Nazianzene, numbers 18, De Obitu Patris, and 6, 23, and 22, the three orations De Pace. The Vita with its dedicatory letter is preserved in at least eight manuscripts, but no trace of the orations has been found. Our information concerning the translation of the orations comes from the letters written by Ambrosius in the year 1436.

Scholars interested in Ambrosius Traversarius have uncovered no further information on these Latin translations. Ludwig Bertalot found twelve additional letters not contained in the collection of Cannetus.

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Research Article
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Renaissance News , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Summer 1961 , pp. 91 - 96
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1961

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References

1 Mehus, L., Vita Ambrosii Traversarii, 2 vols. (Florence, 1759) (vol. II, Letters)Google Scholar.

2 Numbers are according to the order in Migne, P.G. 35 and 36.

3 Bertalot, Ludwig, ‘Zwölf Briefe des Ambrogio Traversari', Römische Quartalschrift, XXIX (1915), 91*-106*Google Scholar.

4 Mercati, Giovanni, ‘Traversariana', Studie Testixc (1939), 1–87 Google Scholar.

5 Mercati, Giovanni, op. cit., pp. 32 Google Scholar f.

6 ‘Codex ille chartaceus Nazanzeni Gregorii sermones continet atque in fine quiddam etiam Johannis patriarche.’

7 Mehus, L., op. cit., II, col. 188 Google Scholar.

8 Idem, col. 190.

9 Idem, col. 232.

10 Idem, col. 595.

11 Idem, col. 618.

12 Ibid.

13 Op. dt., 1,424.

14 Cf. Letter 8 above. The letters quoted were all dated 1436.

15 Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum. Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Transv, lations and Commentaries (Catholic University of America Press, 1960).

16 The earlier order of the orations De Pace was changed in Migne, P.G. 35 and 36, the second one of the earlier arrangement being placed third and vice versa. Consequently, numbers 6 and 23 are the first and second orations De Pace according to the early order.

17 Information on this manuscript was furnished by Paul Oskar Kristeller and Rembert Weakland, o.S.B.

18 Information on the contents of this manuscript was furnished by Charles J. Ermatinger of the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library of St. Louis University and by Paul Oskar Kristeller.