THE PRESENCE OF PAGAN GODS,
and
their stories and images, can be seen in all creations of the
Renaissance. Boccaccio elaborated a treatise, still medieval in
its essence, which yet defended the poetry of those stories and
which had an immediate influence. Thus his Genealogia was one of
the principal sources of information for artists and writers up
until the appearance of Cartari’s work. Soon it was also to be
possible to consult other manuals of an encyclopedic nature,
such as those by Conti or Giraldi, as well as those works that
reelaborate and recast materials, such as those of Berchorius,
Baldini or Du Choul.
Nevertheless, we believe that our edition woould not be complete
with only the Renaissance texts, and therefore we publish
classical sources of extraordinary importance, such as Apollodorus or Hyginus.
Along with these mythographies, quite aware that Ovid’s
Metamorphoses are an obligatory reading in order to decipher
allusions to myths that plastic and literary artists reiterate
endlessly, we also publish the translation into Spanish, with commentary, by Sánchez de Viana.
Studiolum’s system of annotation and conducting searches
allows the user to to quickly and clearly trace the
relationships among the texts. Likewise, this CD allows one to
display simultaneously to the eyes all of the gods and
mythological personages inventoried, thus facilitating the often
complex task of understanding in detail a theme or allusion
present in any artistic manifestation.
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Titles included:
Classical and medieval sources:
• Apollodorus, Bibliotheca (Heidelberg 1599)
• Cicero, De natura deorum; De divinatione (Hamburgo 1618
of the Opera Omnia, with commentary by J. Gruterus)
• Betuleius, Xystus, In Ciceronis de natura deorum
commentarii (Basel, n.d.)
• Hyginus, Fabularum liber, Palaephatus, De fabulosis
narrationibus, Fulgentius, Mythologiarum liber,
Fulgentius, De vocum antiquitatum interpretatione (Basel 1570)
• Berchorius, Petrus, De formis figurisque deorum – Ovidius
moralizatus (Lyon 1509)
Renaissance Manuals:
• Aleandro, Girolamo, Antiquae tabulae marmoreae solis
effigie, symbolisque exculptae accurata explicatio (Rome 1616)
• Albericus, De deorum imaginibus (Basel 1570)
• Alexander ab Alexandro, Genialium dierum libri sex
(Frankfurt 1594, con comentarios de A. Tiraquellus y C. Colerus)
• Baldini, Mascherata della genealogia degli iddei (Florencia
1575)
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, Genealogia Deorum (Basel 1532
Latin,
with commentaries by Mycillus; Venice 1547 Italian by Betussi)
• Cartari, Vincenzo, Imagini de i Dei de gli antichi (Venice
1571 and 1647)
• Conti, Natale, Mythologiae (Venice 1567)
• Du Choul, Guillaume, Discours de la religion des anciens
romains (Lyon 1556 French; Lyon 1579, Spanish translation by B. Pérez
del Castillo).
• Giraldi, Giglio, Syntagma deorum (Basel 1580,
of the Opera Omnia)
• Herold, Johannes. Heydenweldt (Basel 1554)
• Madrigal, Alonso, Las XIIII
questiones del Tostado... Las otras diez questiones poéticas son
acerca de la sucesión de los dioses de los gentiles (Antwerp 1551)
(editio optima; the first ed. is of Salamanca, 1506-7)
• Pérez de Moya, Juan. Philosophía secreta donde debajo de
historias fabulosas se contiene mucha doctrina provechosa a todos
estudios (Madrid 1585)
• Sánchez de Viana, Pedro. Anotaciones
sobre los quinze libros de las transformaciones de Ovidio. Con la
mitología de las fábulas y otras cosas. (Valladolid 1589, traducción
y comentario de las Metamorfosis)
• Vitoria, Baltasar de, Theatro de los dioses de la
gentilidad (Madrid 1620)
• Vitoria, Baltasar de, Segunda parte del Theatro de los
dioses de la gentilidad (Madrid 1623)
• Aguilar, Juan Bautista, Tercera parte del Theatro de los
dioses de la gentilidad (Madrid 1688) |