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Autore:	D’Onofrio, Giulio Esposito, Paolo
Abstract:	This dissertation investigates the Fortleben of the last section of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia (books 33-37) in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (3rd – 8th century AD). After an introduction in which the author resumes the main features of books 33-37 and explains their role in the architecture of the Plinian encyclopedia, in the first chapter the analysis deals with the direct tradition of the Naturalis Historia, with a focus on the «pre-Carolingian fragments» and on the witnesses of Plinian mineralogy from 8th/9th century, and the indirect tradition, offering an overview of the main sets of excerpts, scholia (with a focus on the Scholia Vallicelliana) and epitomes of the Naturalis Historia until the 8th century. The second chapter analyses the main stages of Plinian reception in late antique authors; after an analysis of the process of dismemberment and epitomization of the Plinian mineralogy in Solinus’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium, the author investigates the different attitude that, between the 3rd and the 5th centuries, some of the main exponents of Western Christianity (Tertullian, Ambrose, Gerome and Augustine) had towards the Naturalis Historia. This chapter ends with a parenthesis on the knowledge of the Naturalis Historia in literary and ‘disinterested’ works of the 4th century, with particular attention to some Plinian echoes in Ausonius’s Mosella. The third chapter discusses the problem of the knowledge and the reuse of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia in Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae. After some considerations on the library of Seville and the relationship between Isidore and his sources, the analysis focuses on the problem of Isidore’s direct or indirect knowledge of Pliny’s work. Starting from some observations on Isidore’s working method, the author examines the possibility of a direct knowledge of books 33-37 by the bishop and the creation of Plinian extracts by the scriptorium of Seville; in this regard, some glosses of the Liber glossarum containing Plinian mineralogical material are considered, with particular attention to recent studies on the sources of this glossary and on the Isidorian ‘preparatory’ material which flowed into it. In the last section, the points of contact between Isidorian and Plinian mineralogy are highlighted through an analysis of the structure and contents of book 16 of the Etymologiae. The fourth chapter deals with technical-artistic treatises and collections of recipes of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. The author provides an overview of the main features of this textual typology and then focuses on Heraclius’ De coloribus et artibus Romanorum, a treatise dated around to 8th century in which the author mentions Pliny as an auctoritas for mineralogy and art. Through the comparison between some passages of Heraclius’ treatise and the Naturalis Historia, the hypothesis of a possible knowledge of the last section of Plinian mineralogy by Heraclius is then examined, with a focus on glyptic and the making of colors. In the last chapter the author analyses the reception of Plinian mineralogy by Aldhelm of Malmesbury and the Venerable Bede. Starting from the analysis of two Plinian quotes in the Aldhelm’s De pedum regulis and mineralogical notions contained in his Aenigmata, in the second section the author deals with the circulation of the Naturalis Historia in Northumbria, from which an important Plinian manuscript of 8th century comes (Leiden UB, VLF, 4) and where the Naturalis Historia is cited by the Venerable Bede; in this context, an attempt is made to establish whether the Anglo-Saxon monk had at his disposal and used the last section of Plinian encyclopedia. [edited by Author]
Descrizione:	2020 - 2021
È visualizzato nelle collezioni:	Ricerche e Studi sull’Antichità, il Medioevo e l’Umanesimo, Salerno (RAMUS)

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