title: A Garland of Satire, Wisdom, and History: Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia) (Houghton Library Publications)
author:  Jan M. Ziolkowski 
description: Jan Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University, and the Director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nicolas Freeling
  
  
  The Widow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication, to the City of Strasbourg ‘Argentoratum, cuius ob antiquitem
  Prolemeus d’ Hieronijmus, … et alii miminere, Alsatiae Metropolis, apud
  praterfluentem Rhenum, aliis, Argentina, aut, si quis ex re, nomen commutare
  velit, Aurentina, Sed vulgo Strasburgum dicta; urbs virtute, magistratuum
  prudentia, ac integritate, honestis Studiis, ac nobili schola inclyta.’
  
  
  Very roughly translated:
  
  
  ‘Argentoratum, the town by the silver river, celebrated from earliest times by
  a lot of classical authors, the metropolis of Alsace, near the close-by-
  flowing Rhine; by others spoken of as Argentina the Silvery or even by a play
  on words Aurentina the Golden, but in the vulgar tongue Strasbourg: city
  renowned for courage, the watchfulness of its rulers, for integrity, for
  intellectual worth and a noble University.’
  
  
  Legend to a sixteenth-century engraving of the city, by Abraham Hogenberg,
  1572.
  
  
  From the original in the Cabinet des Est