I would like for some one on the list to give some advice about how to train ap students to gain not a 4 but get a 5 on the vergil ap exam. I would like it in lesson plans, tests, and quizzes.
---------- >From: David Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request >Date: Fri, Aug 23, 2002, 3:35 PM > > At 09:58 AM 8/23/2002 +0100, James Butrica wrote: >>Some partial suggestions have been made for secondary sources on early >>editions, but for a complete inventory of incunabula I suspect that you >>would have to create your own from Hain and the other reference works >>devoted to listing them (and even then you would ideally try to track down >>copies of the editions, since these reference works sometimes contain >>"ghost" editions that do not actually exist). > > This work has now been done; see: > > Davies, Martin, and John Goldfinch. _Vergil: A Census of Printed Editions > 1469-1500_. Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society 7. London: The > Bibliographical Society, 1992. > > There is even an appendix of probable ghosts! > >>As to affinities, I assume that you mean textual ones, and I suspect that >>this would prove a dead end: if your interest is how the editions might be >>related to the important early mss of Virgil, there is probably no >>connection at all (some of those mss were certainly known to Renaissance >>scholars like Pontano and Poliziano and Leto but I have never heard that >>any of them was used for an early edition -- a good thing, too, since old >>mss could simply get thrown away once they had served their purpose: one of >>the Aldine editors destroyed a fifth-century uncial ms of Pliny's letters >>after using it for his edition); > > For modern editions, the most important codices are (according to E. > Courtney) as follows: Mediceus (Laurentian Lib. 39.1 and Vatican lat. 3225 > fol. 76), Romanus (Vatican lat. 3867), and Palatinus (Vatican, Pal. lat. > 1631). Palatinus was in Heidelberg until 1618, and therefore had little or > no influence on Italian editions of Virgil's work in this period. Venier > now confirms that Mediceus was used in the second printed edition of > Virgil's works (1471). Mediceus and Romanus were also used by the most > important of Virgil's textual critics for this period, Pierius Valerianus, > on which see below. > >> and if you mean their relationship to each >>other and to the "vulgate" of the late 15th century, that would be >>impossible to pursue since, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has >>explored the Virgilian ms tradition beyond the Carolingian period (where it >>is already hopelessly contaminated) and so no-one is really in a position >>to say what was in the "vulgate" at any subsequent period, least of all in >>Italy in the Renaissance. > > I agree with James that the situation is hopeless for anything beyond the > Carolingian period -- until c. 1470, when Virgil gets into print. For > printed texts in the years 1470-1514, there is now a stemma in Venier (pp. > 136-37). After that, I think you could safely derive a vulgate text from > one of the following: > > (a) the Aldine octavos, which were endlessly pirated > (b) the apparatus criticus provided by the aforementioned Valerianus, which > was endlessly reprinted. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > East Carolina University Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
