Cola di Rienzo and the Lex Regia
Carrie E. Beneš
"Cola di Rienzo and the Lex Regia." According to his contemporary biographer, Roman revolutionary Cola was only person in Rome mid fourteenth century who could read ancient inscriptions. One of important public exhibitions that helped gain him dictatorship city display, translation, explication lex regia (or de imperio) tablet Vespasian before an august company Romans 1345. Is it possible no one else at time inscribed majuscule tablet? if so, how able translate ability inscription into political power? This paper addresses Cola's from three perspectives: socio-cultural context middle century, paleographical tablet's appearance, theory behind contents.
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