No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Extract
Livy’s history at once became a classic. During the centuries of empire it was not merely read and quoted, but became the quarry for successive epic poets essaying historical themes. Above all, it was consulted by chroniclers, and after being recommended reading in its own right for students it was studied in more compendious form. Then too the more ambitious historian like Tacitus pays Livy the compliment of artistic imitation.
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Classical Association 1974
Footnotes
page no 32 note 1
The surveys in Sandys, Bolgar, and Highet can be complemented by the attractive treatment of C. Giarratano, Tito Livio (Rome, 1943), ch. 12. The importance of Livy for Bruni is set out in D. J. Wilcox, The Development of Florentine Humanist Historio graphy (Harvard, 1969), 106 f.
References
page no 32 note 2 See, for example, Seneca Ep. x1vi. 1; Quint, x. 1. 101; Pliny, Ep. ii. 3. 8, vi. 20. 5.
page no 32 note 3 Perhaps beginning with Virgil (see Rostagni, A., Da Livio a Virgilio e da Virgilio a Livio [Padua, 1942])Google Scholar, the list includes Petronius’ De Bello Civili (see Stubbe, H., Die Verseinlagen im Petron [Leipzig, 1933], 104 ffGoogle Scholar.), Lucan (see Pichon, R., Les sources de Lucain [Paris, 1912])Google Scholar, Silius Italicus (so Nicol, J., The Historical and Geographical Sources used by Silius Italicus with special reference to Livy [Oxford, 1936])Google Scholar.
page no 32 note 4 Quint, ii. 5. 18 f. recommends it for school-reading; for the Summaries see above, Chapter IIG.
page no 32 note 5 Tacitus’ debts to Livy are noted (with bibliography) in F. R. D. Goodyear’s survey of Tacitus in this series (1970), 38; see also Grant (p. 3 n. 5), 292. There is scope for further research here.
page no 32 note 6 Doer, B., ‘Livy and the Germans’, in Livy (p. 3 n. 5), 98 ffGoogle Scholar.
page no 32 note 7 Manitius, M., Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, III (Munich, 1931)Google Scholar; De Ghellinck, J., L’essor de la littérature latine au XII siècle (Brussels, 1954)Google Scholar.
page no 33 note 1 Ullman, B. L., Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome, 1955), ch. 4Google Scholar; Billanovich, G., ‘Petrarch and the Textual Tradition of Livy’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes xiv (1951), 137 ffCrossRefGoogle Scholar.; ‘II Boccaccio, il Petrarca, et le più antiche traduzioni in italiano di Tito Livio’, Giorn. stor. lett. ital. cxxx (1953), 311 ff.
page no 33 note 2 de la Mare, A., ‘Fiorentine Manuscripts of Livy’, in Livy (p. 3 n. 5), 177 ffGoogle Scholar.
page no 33 note 3 Texts are given in Valentino-Zucchetti, Codice tipografico della città di Roma (Rome, 1946).
page no 33 note 4 Whitfield, J. H., ‘Machiavelli’s use of Livy’, in Livy (p. 3 n. 5), ch. 4Google Scholar; cf. Roe buck, C. in Phoenix vi (1952), 52 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Anderson, W. S. in Cj 1iii (1957/8), 232 ffGoogle Scholar.
page no 33 note 5 C. Giarratano’s survey (p. 32 n. 1) is useful here.
page no 33 note 6 It is surprising that there has been no study of Livy’s importance for French intellectual and political history. He was Voltaire’s favourite historian (see Brumfitt, J. H., Voltaire, Historian [Oxford, 1958], 141 fGoogle Scholar.). His influence on Montesquieu is well traced by Sheila M., Mason, ‘Livy and Montesquieu’, in Livy (p. 3 n. 5), ch. 5.Google Scholar For the influence of Cicero and Livy on the French Revolution see Parker, H. T., The Cult of Antiquity and the French Revolutionaries (Chicago, 1937)Google Scholar.
page no 33 note 7 Clarke’s, M. L. Classical Education in Britain 1500-1900 (Cambridge, 1959)Google Scholar attests his continuing presence in university and school curricula, but few major literary figures reflect a formative influence. An exception is Macaulay; see Prowse, K. R., ‘Livy and Macaulay’, in Livy (p. 3 n. 5), ch. 6.Google Scholar