In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Butrica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >>�Podr�a alguien ayudarme a localizar una pgina donde exista alg�n tipo de >>foro de discusi�n sobre Lorenzo Valla y su obra en lat�n? Estoy buscando >>el comentario que realiza el autor al t�rmino latino Testamentum (quiz se >>encuentre en sus Elegantiae...pero no he podido consultarlas). Gracias de >>antemano por vuestra colaboraci�n. > >I am unable to direct you to a web-page where Valla is discussed, but if >you need the actual words that he wrote about the word Testamentum at 6.36 >of the Elegantiae, I can provide that for you from the text of the editio >Gryphiana of 1538: [. . .]
In that of 1543, the chapter is followed by a note from Andreas Alciatus, De verborum significatione 2: Iustinianum inridet, qui testamentim dixerit, testaionem mentis esse, auctoritateque Gellii nititur, alioquin et ornamentum, uestimentum, pauimentum, idque genus similia, a mente deducerentur. respondeo, non etymologiam ibi Iustinianus adducit, sed allusionem, qualem Grammatici paronomasian, Rhetores parison habent, solumque in ea nominis conformitas spectatur: quod et Fab(ium) Quintil(ianum) non latuit, cum non ad originem uocis, sed ad soni similitudinem referatur, ut hoc casu eo melior fuit allusio, quod ueritatem etiam respicit.in testamentum enim mens potissimum dominatur. Since Justinian, Institutiones 2. 10. pr. writes 'Testamentum ex eo appellatur, quod testatio mentis est'. I am not sure this defence holds; but if it holds for Justinian against Valla, it holds for Ser. Sulpcius against Gellius (see _Noctes Atticae_ 7. 12, which to Valla and Alciatus was 6. 12)'. Leofranc Holford-Strevens *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
