The early history of San Marino is based on literary, documentary and archeological sources. Homer is the first to mention the Mount "Titano", the late name of San Marino. During the fall of the Roman Empire the monk Bassus built a... more
The early history of San Marino is based on literary, documentary and archeological sources. Homer is the first to mention the Mount "Titano", the late name of San Marino. During the fall of the Roman Empire the monk Bassus built a monastery. Centuries later the monastic community became a "Comune" and then a modern Republic
This part of the book "San Marino tra storia e leggenda" conteins the main literary sources of the early Christian history of Rimini. The Latin and Greek sources are translated in Italian and inlustrated by pictures of the original... more
This part of the book "San Marino tra storia e leggenda" conteins the main literary sources of the early Christian history of Rimini. The Latin and Greek sources are translated in Italian and inlustrated by pictures of the original manuscripts. The 1st part are the documents of the Second Universal Council of the Church in 359. The 2nd part is the Letter of the monk Eugippius to the priest Pascasius in 511. The 3rd part is on the lettery by Gregory the Great to the Bishop, the abbot and the people of Rimini in 591-599. The 4th part is the a new edition of the "Placitum Feretranum" (20 February 885)
This paper highlights the discovery of extraction marks in the archetype of the collection De bono coniugali of St. Augustine’s writings (Città del Vaticano, BAV, Pal. lat. 210), which shall be attributed to the workshop of Eugippius of... more
This paper highlights the discovery of extraction marks in the archetype of the collection De bono coniugali of St. Augustine’s writings (Città del Vaticano, BAV, Pal. lat. 210), which shall be attributed to the workshop of Eugippius of Castellum Lucullanum. They consist in marginal alpha and omega combined with crosses inside the text : they were used during the composition of the Excerpta ex operibus sancti Augustini around 500. They make it possible to date the ms. Pal. lat. 210 approximately one century before the date to which it was previously assigned on palaeographical grounds. This study sheds new light not only on the making of Eugippius’ Excerpta and on the value of the different branches of its manuscript transmission, but also on the origins of the collection De bono coniugali, on the rise of the use of excerption signs in late Antiquity and on the criteria of datation of the roman uncial.
