6.0346 Rs: Erasmus (3/42)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 5 Nov 1992 07:37:29 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0346. Thursday, 5 Nov 1992.
(1) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 07:41:39 PST (10 lines)
From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III)
Subject: 6.0336 Qs: Exchanges; Pen-Pals; S/W; Address; Quote (6/89)
(2) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 20:41:31 -0500 (17 lines)
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Erasmus reference
(3) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 20:48:41 -0500 (15 lines)
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Erasmus reference
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 07:41:39 PST
From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III)
Subject: 6.0336 Qs: Exchanges; Pen-Pals; S/W; Address; Quote (6/89)
Michael Heim wants to know the source of Erasmus's statement about his
publisher, Aldus Manutius: "Aldus is creating a library which has no
boundaries other than the world itself." It's from "Festina Lente":
"Aldus bibliothecam molitur, cuius non alia septa sint, quam ipsius
orbis" (*Adagia*, in *Opera Omnia*, ed. Le Clerc, ii. 403A).
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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 20:41:31 -0500
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Erasmus reference
I am not sure where in Erasmus the statement cited by Mike Heim could
be found, and I've cross-posted the query on Ficino to see if anyone
there does. However, it sounds to me like an allusion to Ovid, Fasti
II, 683-4: "The land of other nations has a fixed boundary: the
circuit of Rome is the circuit of the world." Since these lines conclude
Ovid's section on the figure of Terminus, whom Erasmus I believe used
as his seal, it seems likely to me that the saying is indeed Erasmian.
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Germaine Warkentin warkent@epas.utoronto.ca
English, Victoria College, University of Toronto
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 20:48:41 -0500
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Erasmus reference
An Erasmian friend tells me that Mike Heim may find his Erasmus
reference by going to the index of Vol. 12 of Allen's edition of the
correspondence, and following the references to Aldus Manutius until
he finds the right one. If indeed the observation was made by
Erasmus, it is surely somewhere in his letters!
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Germaine Warkentin warkent@epas.utoronto.ca
English, Victoria College, University of Toronto
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