Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
John Wilson Ross
Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
John Wilson Ross · English
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Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
John Wilson Ross · English
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TACITUS AND BRACCIOLINI. CHAPTER I. TACITUS COULD BARELY HAVE WRITTEN THE ANNALS. I. From the chronological point of view.—II. The silence preserved about that work by all writers till the fifteenth century.—III. The age of the MSS. containing the Annals. I. The Annals and the History of Tacitus are like two houses in ruins: dismantled of their original proportions they perpetuate the splendour of Roman historiography, as the crumbling remnants of the Coliseum preserve from obli
Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
John Wilson Ross
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