Herodoti Historia per Matthiam Palmierum Pisanum e Graeco in Latinum versa

The Latin Translation of Herodotus’ ›Histories‹ by Mattia Palmieri

Ioannis Deligiannis

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9783111340388
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The book contains the editio princeps of Mattia Palmieri's mid-fifteenth-century Latin translation of Herodotus' Histories, almost contemporary or even earlier than that by Lorenzo Valla. It also investigates the intellectual and historical milieu in which Palmieri produced it as preparatory work for his historical works and to secure patronage under a church prelate by offering it to Cardinal Prospero Colonna. It includes some information on Palmieri's life and work and Herodotus' fortuna, a brief comparison between Palmieri's and Valla's translations, Palmieri's Greek model and Livy's influence on him in language and style. It finally approaches some methodological issues related to editing a text preserved in authorially revised versions, because the translation shows three different stages of revision. This first approach of Herodotus by Western scholars is significant, because Herodotus was foremost read as a quarry of information of ethnographical, geographical, historical and anthropological nature, in order for the Europeans to understand peoples they encountered on their exploratory voyages and the Ottomans, who were considered as descendants of the Persians.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Palmieri’s Translation Within the Fifteenth-Century Reception of Herodotus
• 2 The Production of the Translation
• 3 The Circulation of the Translation
• 4 Weaknesses and Practices of the Translation
• 5 The Greek Exemplar of the Translation
• 6 Editorial Principles
• Herodoti Historia per Matthiam Palmierum Pisanum e Graeco in Latinum versa
• Sigla
• MATTHIAE PALMIERI PISANI PROOEMIVM IN TRADVCTIONE HERODOTI AD PROSPERVM CARDINALEM DE COLVMNA
• LIBER PRIMVS CLIO
• LIBER SECVNDVS EVTERPE
• LIBER TERTIVS THALIA
• LIBER QVARTVS MELPOMENE
• LIBER QVINTVS TERPSICHORE
• LIBER SEXTVS ERATO
• LIBER SEPTIMVS POLYMNIA
• LIBER OCTAVVS VRANIA
• LIBER NONVS CALLIOPE
• Appendix
• The Marginalia on Palmieri’s Translation from mss. N and F
• Abbreviations, Bibliography and Indexes
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index Nominum Translationis
• Index Nominum Antiquorum et Mediaevalium
• Index Nominum Aliorum
• Index Locorum
• Index Codicum Manuscriptorum