Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in Renaissance Florence: a Database of Florentine Vernacularizations of Greek texts (c. 1460-1500)

Pope Nicholas V

Item

Dedicatee id

D0000001 See all items with this value

Name

Pope Nicholas V See all items with this value

Works

Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum <libri> a Poggio in Latinum traducti See all items with this value

Historia Romana (liber Libycus, Syrius, Parthicus [pseudo-Appianean], Mithridaticus, libri [5] De bellis civilibus, liber Illyricus, liber Celticus) See all items with this value

Record last updated

21 October 2024

Note

As regards Appian's Roman History, Pope Nicholas V commissioned to Pier Candido Decembrio the translation of the entire work. However, at his death in 1455, the humanist re-dedicated the books "De bellis civilibus" to Alfonso of Aragon King of Naples.