Polyanthea

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Polyanthea in the Solothurn Central Library

The Polyanthea, hoc est, OPVs svavissimis floribvs celebriorvm sententiarvm, tam Graecarvm qvam Latinarvm, exornatvm was in 1503 [1512?] Written by Dominicus Nanus Mirabellius (also Nannus, Domenico Nani [Nanni] Mirabelli [ni], Nano Mirabello etc., s. Weblink ), from Alba (Piedmont) , Archipresbyter at the cathedral chapter of Savona , poet and doctor.

According to the subtitle of his work, “ having worked out the sweetest flowers from famous Greek and Latin statements” , Mirabellius brings quotes, definitions, etymologies from the Bible, the classics, church fathers, Italian poets and humanists such as Dante , Petrarch and Baptista in alphabetical order Mantuanus , Poggio and more. He translates Greek authors and simultaneously cites them in the original. His work has been reprinted several times.

Revisions

  • Polyan // thea / Opus suauissimis floribus exornatum compositu [m] per // Dominicum Nanum Mirabellium, Ciuem Albensem // artiumq [ue] doctorem ad co [m] munem vtilitatem.// Addita nunc primum est latina interpretatio versuum Dan - // tis, & Petrarchae, quos ipsi Italico idiomate co [n] scripserunt . -Wien: Alantsee, 1517. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Josephus Langius ( Joseph Lang or Lange): Polyanthea nova, hoc est, opus suavissimis floribus celebriorum sententiarum tam græcarum quam latinarum refertum: Quod ex innumeris fere cum factis tum profanis autoribus ... summa fide olim collegere. Editio altera . Frankfurt am Main, M. Becker for L. Zetzner (Zetznerus), 1607 ; an alphabetically structured work with key words from biblical and classical antiquity and medieval history based on Mirabellius' Polyanthea , a very early forerunner of later conversational lexicons .
  • Later edition for example under Nannus Mirabellius, D. (ua). Florilegii magni seu Polyantheae floribus novissimis sparsae, libri XX. Iam olim à Dominico Nano Mirabellio, Bartholomaeo Amantio, Francisco Tortio, ex autoribus cum sacris, tum profanis, vestustioribus & recentioribus, collectum. Studio dehinc & opera Josephi Langii meliore ordine dispositum ... locupletatum atque perillustratum. Editio titulis novissimis aucta ... Ms. Sylvii Insulani industria & laboratories. Woodcut printer's device on the title. Geneva, Jakob Stör, 1639.

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