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Founded in 1946 by Paul Oskar Kristeller, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has become an indispensable research tool for scholars interested in the history of the classical tradition in the West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Each article treats a separate classical author, beginning with a detailed essay on the author’s reception from antiquity to A.D. 1600 and, in some cases, even up to the present day. This ‘Fortuna’ is followed by a comprehensive list both of manuscript and printed commentaries on each Latin author and, in the case of Greek authors, a list of Latin translations as well.

Since the publication of the first volume in 1960, the Catalogus has published articles on nearly a hundred classical authors, with dozens more in active preparation. The project boasts an international team of contributors from fourteen countries in Europe and North America. Given the ever-growing interest in the history of classical reception across departments of English, European languages, and comparative literature, the foundational scholarship that is the hallmark of the CTC has become more vital than ever to research in the humanities.

Contents

Preface, by Greti Dinkova-Bruun • vii
Preface to Volume I, by Paul Oskar Kristeller • xi
General Bibliography • xix
Abbreviations • xxxiii
Introduction and Acknowledgements, by Keith Sidwell • xxxv

Greek Authors
Lucianus Samosatensis, by Keith Sidwell (University College Cork and University of Calgary) • 1

Index of Manuscripts • 991
Index of Translators and Commentators • 1001
Index of Printers • 1015
General Index • 1020
Index of Ancient Authors Treated in Volumes I–XIV • 1039

Editors

Greti Dinkova-Bruun is a Fellow and Librarian of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. She has edited Alexander Ashby’s Opera Poetica for the Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis (2004) and The Ancestry of Jesus: Excerpts from “Liber Generationis Iesu Christi Filii Dauid Filii Abraham” for Toronto Medieval Latin Texts (2005). Her numerous articles have appeared in Mediaeval Studies, Viator, Sacris Erudiri, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, and Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge, among other journals.

Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Latin at Bryn Mawr College. Her article on Catullus appeared in CTC 7 in 1992. She is the author of  Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), The Fortunes of Apuleius and the “Golden Ass”: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), and Catullus (2009); she is also the editor and translator of Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999) and Giovanni Giovanio Pontano’s Dialogues: Charon and Antonius (2012).

James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and general editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, published by Harvard University Press. He is the author of, most recently, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (2019) and Plato in the Italian Renaissance (1990; Italian translation, 2009), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (2007) and (with Fabrizio Meroi) The Rebirth of Platonic Theology (2013), as well as editor and trans­lator of Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine People (2001–2007) and editor of Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology (2001–2006).

Endorsements

“Continuing its undeniable contribution to the study of the transmission and reception of Greek and Latin texts, the fourteenth volume of the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, edited by Greti Dinkova-Bruun, offers an exceptional overview of the fortune of Lucian of Samosata from Antiquity to the early modern period. The detailed information on manuscripts, printed editions, commentaries, and translations – both into Latin and the vernacular – assembled by Keith Sidwell is complemented by extensive quotations of paratextual material, thus providing remarkable insight into the complexity of the reception of Lucian’s works. The volume opens with a comprehensive Introduction, in which an account of diverse approaches is presented, and concludes with a Conspectus of Translations, useful for navigating the large amount of the material gathered. Overall, it is a monumental contribution to our understanding of the sophist’s pedagogical and literary influence, from Byzantium to early modern Europe, and will undoubtedly become an indispensable reference work for any student of the classical tradition.” — Maria Luísa Resende, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

“Keith Sidwell’s ‘Lucianus Samosatensis’ for the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum is a landmark achievement in the study of the classical tradition. Confronting a corpus of exceptional scale and complexity, Sidwell combines meticulous bibliographical precision with a clear, highly usable structure. The volume proceeds in broadly chronological sequence while grouping translations and commentaries by individual scholars, enabling readers to trace Lucian’s afterlife not only work by work, but also through the careers, intellectual networks, and scholarly environments that carried his writings across centuries. Sidwell follows Lucian from the earliest stages of Greek learning in Renaissance Italy, where his works served as key classroom texts, through the explosion of Latin translation, commentary, and print circulation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and into the wider phenomenon of Lucianism in European literary and cultural history down to the present. Along the way, he assembles and clarifies an extraordinary body of evidence: hundreds of manuscripts, hundreds of printed editions, and a dense web of paratexts through which early modern readers interpreted Lucian’s value and purpose. The book’s detailed conspectuses make visible at a glance which works circulated where, in what languages, and under whose names, offering an indispensable map of a tradition in which texts often travelled independently and translators and commentators worked across decades. Sidwell’s most important contribution, however, lies in transforming immense documentation into interpretive clarity: correcting misattributions, refining dates and provenance, and illuminating the pedagogical and scholarly conditions that made Lucian central to the revival of Greek. With its expansive, carefully cross-referenced catalogue – strengthened by links to digitized copies – this volume stands as both a foundation and a gateway for future scholarship in Classics, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Translation History, and Reception research.” — Ioannis Deligiannis, Democritus University of Thrace

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