Hanover and London: UP of New England, 1989. In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideictic Rhetoric in the Early Italian Renaissance. Critical edition of Vegio's Latin text, based on the earliest manuscripts. Maffeo Vegio: Eingeleitet, nach den Handschriften herausgegeben, 'Maffeo Vegio's 'short Cristyn wark,' with a Note on the Thirteenth Book in Early Editions of Vergil.' Modern Philology 78 (1981): 215-26. Prints the translations of Douglas and Twyne, as well as the Latin text of the editio princeps (Venice: Adam de Ambergau, 1471) includes an introduction to Vegio's life and the critical reception of the Supplement. Maphaeus Vegius and his Thirteenthīook of the Aeneid: A Chapter on Virgil in the Renaissance. The standard life of Vegio, with a bibliography of his writings.īrinton, Anna Cox. You can also search this text in conjunction with that of Virgil's original.ĭem 15 und 17 Jahrhunderdt. The Latin text of Vegio's Supplement is given below as printed in the editio princeps (Venice, 1471), edited by Brinton, Maphaeus Vegius, 52-90. A Scots translation, by Bishop Gavin Douglas (1513) was published in 1553, and an English translation in 1584, by the physician Thomas Twyne. (The first attempt was made by Pier Candido Decembrio, in 1419, but Decembrio abandoned the effort after only 89 lines.) Sometimes called the 'thirteenth book of the Aeneid,' Vegio's Supplementum regularly appeared in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions of Virgil's works, and elicited commentaries, first from Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1501) and later from Nicolaus Erythraeus (1538-39). Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) composed this, the most famous attempt to continue Virgil's Aeneid, at the tender age of twenty-one, in 1428. of Maffeo Vegio's Libri XII Aeneidos Supplementum. Woodcut illustration to the Strassburg, 1502 ed.

Maphaeus Vegius, 'Libri XII Aeneidos Supplementum'.

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