Divisiones, Memorialia

Name: Divisiones, Memorialia
Brand: Corpus Christianorum
SKU: 978-2-503-60977-5
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ISBN: 978-2-503-60977-5

Harald Anderson, Carla DeSantis, Claudia Pagliari (eds)

Pages: approx. 480 p.
Size:155 x 245 mm
Illustrations:1 col.

Language(s):Latin, English
Publication Year:2026

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This volume offers a rare insight into medieval pedagogical practices on the threshold of Italian humanism.

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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 Master’s degree in Classics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano. She currently teaches Literary Subjects 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 super Virgilium, Divisiones super 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 of 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

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

DIVISIONES

Divisiones super Virgilium

Divisiones super Georgica
Divisiones super Eneida

Divisiones super Lucanum

MEMORIALIA

Memoriale super Georgica
Memoriale super Eneida Virgilii
Memoriale super Metamorphoseon Ouidii: versio I
Memoriale super Metamorphoseon Ovidii: versio II

Compendium traiediarum Senece

I. Hercules furens
II. Thiesta
III. Thebais
IV. Ypolitus
V. Edipus
VI. Troas
VII. Medea
VIII. Agamenonia
IX. Octavia
X. Hercules Oetheus

Memoriale super Lucanum: versio I
Memoriale super Lucanum: versio II
Memoriale super Lucanum: versio III
Memoriale super Achilleida Stacii
Memoriale super Thebaida Stacii

ADNOTATIONES

INDEX FONTIVM