Oculus pastoralis

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The Oculus Pastoralis is a political treatise that an anonymous author wrote in northern Italy around 1222. The text, written in Latin, provides practical and moral advice for the podestà . It establishes the genre of pedestal literature . The text has survived in fragments in two manuscripts ( Cleveland , Public Library and Venice , Biblioteca Marciana ). The first edition by Muratori is based on a manuscript in the possession of Filippo Argelati .

expenditure

  • Lodovico Antonio Muratori : Oculus pastoralis sive libellus erudiens futurum rectorem populorum , in: Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi , Vol. IV, Milan 1741, columns 95–128 ( digitized version )
  • Speeches from the Oculus pastoralis / ed. From Cleveland, Public Library, MS. Wq7890921M-C37 by Terence O. Tunberg, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Center for Medieval Studies 1990 (Toronto medieval Latin texts; 19)
  • Oculus pastoralis. Pascens officia et continens radium dulcibus pomis suis , arr . v. Dora Franceschi, Turin 1966 (Memorie dell'Accademia delle scienze di Torino, 4a ser. 11).

literature

  • Dora Franceschi: L'Oculus Pastoralis e la sua fortuna, in: Atti della Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche 99 (1964/1965), pp. 205-261.
  • Diego Quaglioni: Politica e diritto al tempo di Federico II. L'Oculus pastoralis (1222) e la sapienza civile, in: Federico II e le nuove culture, Spoleto 1996, pp. 1-26.
  • Terence O. Tunberg: Notes on the Oculus pastoralis and secular oratory in thirteenth-century Italy: a response to Emil J. Polak, in: Manuscripta 36 (1992), pp. 210-213
  • Terence O. Tunberg: Oculus pastoralis, [Diss. University of Toronto] (1987)

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