The Reception of Censorinus, De Die Natali, in Pre-Renaissance Europe
Rodney M. Thomson
De Die Natali is an obscure little treatise on human life, the influence of planets and divisions time, written by Roman grammarian Censorinus dedicated to Q. Caerellius for his forty-ninth birthday in A.D. 238. It was not a very popular work before fifteenth century, there no reason why it should have been. Even its Italian revival probably due brevity, which encouraged copying as adjunct larger, more interesting works accompanied earliest manuscripts. The increasing popularity astrology may also influenced dissemination during Renaissance. not, however, completely lost from sight Europe’s first millennium. study early transmission use throws some light upon classical literature that period, though unlikely improve state text has come down us.
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