Edmund Bolton's Vindication of Tiberius Caesar: A "lost! Manuscript Comes to Light

• Autores: Patricia J. Osmond
• Localización: International journal of the classical tradition, ISSN 1073-0508, Vol. 11, Nº 3, 2005, págs. 329-343
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article presents the evidence for attributing to the English historian and antiquarian Edmund Bolton (1575-c.1634) an anonymous, unpublished manuscript entitled AVERRVNCI or The Skowrers. Ponderous and new considerations vpon the first six books of the Annals of CORNELIVS TACITVS concerning TIBERIVS CÆSAR (Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, Ms. A IV 5). As a summary of work in progress towards a critical edition of, and commentary on, the text, it also introduces the principal issues surrounding the study of the author and his subject: the place of the treatise in the context of his life and work; its connections to the anti-Tacitean movement in Stuart England; and its contributions to the development of source criticism and philological analysis in an age of political controversy. Bolton¿s Skowrers provides not only a passionate defense of monarchy but also a carefully argued refutation of Tacitus¿ account of Tiberius and the first scholarly and systematic attempt in early modern historiography to rehabilitate the emperor¿s reputation