THE RENAISSANCE EDITIONS OF FESTUS: IDENTIFYING PAULUS DIACONUS
Damiano Acciarino
Only through a protracted and challenging process at the end of nineteenth-century was Paul Deacon ( Paulus Diaconus ) correctly identified as author abridged version Festus’s De verborum significatione that in circulation medieval times. However, group French scholars had already reached this conclusion during Renaissance. The purpose study is to reconstruct cultural path followed by antiquarians philologists who were able make important discovery ante litteram : examining many Renaissance editions Festus, perception Paul’s authorship emerges, revealing how realised unidentified fact historian Goths Lombards.
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology