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Entry | Thucydidis Atheniensis de bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo ab Laurentio Vallensi…

Thucydidis Atheniensis de bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo ab Laurentio Vallensi translati †

Typology: Translation | Language: Latin | Place of publication: Rome | Year: 1452

Greek Text: no

Content: Complete Work

Based on the original Greek. The Greek mss. that Valla used for his translation are lost. In 2008, M. Chambers published a photographic reproduction of the most important manuscript of Valla's translation, ms. Vat. Lat. 1801.

The editio princeps was printed in Treviso in ca. 1483, with revisions by Bartholomaeus Parthenius – see Partenio 1483.

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