Showing posts with label LatinAesop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LatinAesop. Show all posts
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Noel: Poggii Florentini Facetiarum
Poggii Florentini Facetiarum by François Noel (1798)
This is a two-volume edition of Poggio's Facetiae - as the subtitle explains: Notulis imitatores indicantibus et nonnullis sive Latinis, sive Gallicis imitationibus illustratus, simul ad fidem optimarum editionum emendatus. It also includes a life of Poggio, Vita Poggii. The imitations are in both verse and prose (mostly in verse), in Latin and also in French - all kinds of delights here!
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Esope en trois langues
Esope en trois langues, introduced by B. Morin (1816)
This wonderful book contains a collection of Aesop's fables in Greek, Latin, and French, drawing on a wide range of Aesopic authors, including Phaedrus, Faernus, Desbillons, Lebeau, La Fontaine and Richer, among other French fabulists, with an alphabetical index in the back of the book, which is almost 500 pages in length.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Gilbertus: Tetrastichorum in Fabulas Aesopicas XII
Tetrastichorum in Fabulas Aesopicas XII by Christianus Gilbertus (1690)
This remarkable little book contains 12 fables of Aesop in Greek tetrastichs which are then rendered into Latin verse, with each fable told in eight different meters: iambic, scazons, trochaic, hexameters, choriambic, hendecasyllables, Sapphic, and anapests. Amazing!
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Ellis: The Fables of Avianus
The Fables of Avianus edited by Robinson Ellis (1887)
This is an excellent edition of the verse fables of Avianus with a lengthy introduction and detailed notes by Robinson Ellis.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Aphthonius: Progymnasmata
Progymnasmata by Aphthonius (1665)
This is a Latin edition the Progymnasmata of Aphthonius, which is a set of rhetorical exercises to help students build up to preparing their own declamations. You can get an overview of the progymnasmata tradition at this webpage: Progymnasmata. Aphthonius is also an important source for Aesop's fables, since he advocated the use of fables as good raw writing material for students to work with!
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Desbillons: Fabulae Aesopiae
Fabulae Aesopiae by Franciscus Desbillons (1789)
This book contains all fifteen books of Desbillons' Latin fables in verse, along with a Latin-German index of words and phrases, along with a Latin index of the fables' Sententiae, and a Latin index by the characters of the fables.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Landsberger: Fabulae aliquot Aramaeae
Fabulae aliquot Aramaeae by Julius Landsberger (1846)
This was one of the books I used for the Mille Fabulae et Una book last summer - the Aramaic fables are presented with a Latin translation, as you can see below:
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Faernus: Fabulae Centum cum Imaginibus
Fabulae Centum, cum Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata, Studio Othonis Vaeni by Gabrielis Faernus. 1743.
What a treat! Here are the fables of Faernus, with emblematic illustrations from the studio of Vaenius! A sample, from the fable of the raging lion:
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Hervieux: Fabulistes Latins II
Les Fabulistes Latins, by Leopold Hervieux. Volume 2: 1894.
Volume 2 of Hervieux's Fabulistes latins contains the prose paraphrases of Phaedrus from Middle Ages, along with some versions of the fables in verse form, too. Many of these collections go under the name of "Romulus" (both prose and verse) and you will also find these authors in Volume 2: Ademar of Chabannes, Vincent Beauvais, the fables sometimes attributed to Walter of England (also known as the "Anonymous of Nevelet"), and Alexander Nequam. There is an extremely useful "Synoptic Table" (in French) which organizes the fables alphabetically by type, starting on p. 763 of the book.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Abstemii Fabulae
Abstemii Fabulae, in Mythologia Aesopica, edited by Isaac Nicolas Nevelet, 1610.
The fables of Abstemius begin on page 531 of this edition of Nevelet and they can be considered one of the most important and influential collections of Renaissance Aesopica. There are quite a few books which contain the first hecatomythium (collection of one hundred fables) that Abstemius wrote, but the only place where I have found both hecatomythia together is in Nevelet's monumental edition of Aesop's fables, which is available at GoogleBooks!
In addition to his charming fables, you have to give Abstemius credit also for his charming Latin name. His Italian name is Lorenzo Bevilacqua, and from his Italian surname Bevi-l'acqua ("Drink-water"), he coined the Latin surname Abstemius.
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