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Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 201A
Folchinus de Borfonibus
Divisiones et Memorialia
Harald Anderson, Carla DeSantis, Claudia Pagliari (eds)
- Pages: approx. 500 p.
- Size:155 x 245 mm
- Illustrations:1 b/w
- Language(s):Latin, English
- Publication Year:2025
- € 370,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-60977-5
- Hardback
- Forthcoming (Sep/25)
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This volume offers a rare insight into medieval pedagogical practices on the threshold of Italian humanism.
BIO
Carla DeSantis, an independent scholar based in Toronto, holds a PhD in Medieval Latin Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. She previously edited vol. 1 of Folchino dei Borfoni’s works, Cremonina (Grammatica, orthographia et prosodia) (CC CM 201).
Claudia Pagliari holds a diploma in Archives, Paleography, and Diplomatics from the Archivio di Stato di Milano and teaches literature and Latin at the Liceo Scientifico “G. Aselli” in Cremona.
Harald Anderson holds a PhD in Latin and Greek from the Ohio State University and specializes in medieval commentaries. He is adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Business.
Summary
This work completes Folchino dei Borfoni’s collected works, the first of which were offered in the edition of his grammatical text, Cremonina (CC CM 201). This final volume presents the first critical edition and study of the remainder of Folchino’s known teaching texts, Divisiones in Virgilium, Divisiones in Lucanum, and Memorialia, encompassing minute textual divisions, paraphrases, summaries, mnemonic verse arguments, and occasionally exegesis on the works by Virgil, Lucan, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, and Statius. While steeped in contemporary academic traditions, Folchino employs the methodologies of the divisio textus and mnemonic verses in unique ways to teach classical literature to his fourteenth-century Northern Italian students, providing a rare insight into daily medieval lesson plans on the threshold of Italian Humanism. These texts will interest not only scholars and students of medieval Latin and classical literature but also those interested in the history of education, memory and mnemonics in the Middle Ages, medieval commentary, and the reception of the classical auctores. The introduction to the volume situates Folchino’s Divisiones and Memorialia within medieval pedagogical tradition and draws on codicological and textual evidence. The introduction concludes with an analysis of a range aspects, including structure, sources, exegetical methods, language and style.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter I – The Divisiones
Tradition and Originality
Structure
Exegesis
Sources and Use of Sources
Phraseology and Language
Condition of the Manuscript and Reception
Authenticity and Completeness
Chapter II: The Memorialia
Tradition and Originality
Structure
Sources and Use of Sources
Versification
Condition of the Manuscripts and Reception
Authenticity
Sequence of Composition
Bibliography
Principles of the Edition
Sigla and Abbreviations Used in the Edition
DIVISIONES
Diuisiones Virgilii
Diuisiones super Georgica
Diuisiones super Eneidem
Diuisiones Lucani
MEMORIALIA
Virgilii
Super Georgica
Memoriale super Eneyda
Ouidii
Super Metamorphoseon
Versio I
Versio II
Senecae Philosophi
Compendium Traiediarum
Hercules furens
Thiesta
Thebais
Ypolitus
Edipus
Troas
Medea
Agamenonia
Octauia
Hercules Oetheus
Lucani
Memoriale super decem libris
Versio I
Versio II
Versio III
Statii
Memoriale super Achilleida
Memoriale super Thebaida
ADNOTATIONES
INDICES
Index locorum Sacrae Scripturae
Index auctorum
