Artis Historicae Penus

Artis Historicae Penus (Treasury of the Art of History, 1579) is a compilation of 18

Frederick I of Wurttemberg

. He states that he has included all the princely dedications and prefaces of the single works from the source editions for the sake of completeness.

In addition to the two standard Greek texts of the ars historica translated into Latin, the authors, editors and translators are an international list of the most notable humanist writers on history of the period. There are several Catholics, but those closest to the Perna press were Protestants. Among them are six Italians, four Germans, three Frenchmen, a Spaniard and a Hungarian. As humanist members of the Renaissance Res Publica Litterarum all wrote in Latin, though Stupano translated Patrizi's Dieci Dialoghi for Perna. The dates of the editions used by Perna follow the authors' names.

I. Jean Bodin 1572,
II.
Johann Nikolaus Stupano
) 1570,
III. Giovanni Pontano 1556,
IV.
Francois Baudouin
1561,
V.
Sebastian Fox Morcillo
1557,
VI. Giovanni Antonio Viperani 1567,
VII.
Francis Robortello
1560,
VIII. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (trans. Andreas Dudith) 1560,
IX. Christopher Milieu 1551,
X. Uberto Foglietta 1574,
XI. David Chytraeus 1569,
XII.
Lucian of Samosata (trans. Jacob Micyllus
) 1538,

XIII. Simon Grynaeus 1539,
XIV. Celio Secondo Curione 1554,
XV. Christoph Pezel 1568,
XVI. Theodor Zwinger 1571,
XVII.
Johannes Sambucus
1568,
XVIII. Antonio Riccoboni 1568.

The

exempla were important pedagogical tools for the education of princes, treasured for the lessons in statecraft found in histories. They also served as an antidote to the influence of Niccolò Machiavelli

. The

Jesuit ars historica to replace the influence of Bodin and the heterodox authors of the Perna collection in his Bibliotheca selecta 1593 and expanded it to an Apparatus ad omnium gentium historiam

1597.

References

Artis Historicae Penus Octodecim scriptorum tam veterum quam recentiorum monumentis & inter eos Io. praepicue Bodini Methodi historicae sex instructa. Basileae: Ex officina Petri Pernae. MDLXXIX.

Io. Bodini Methodus historica duodecim eiusdem argumenti scriptorum, tam veterum quam recentiorum, commentariis adaucta; quorum elenchum praefationi subiecimus. Basileae: Ex Petri Pernae officina. MDLXXVI.

External links

All 18 works of this edition [but Riccoboni separately] are accessible online under this title as a Google book [1]