Renaissance Commentaries, Annotations, Critical Works

Bernardi, Antonio. Disputationes. Basel, 1562.

Ascensius, Jodocus Badius. Prolix commentaries on Ecl., Geo., and Aen., along with the Appendix and Vegio's Supplementum. Most conveniently available in P. Virgilii Maronis Opera… (Venice: Heirs of Lucas Antonius Iunta Florentinus, 1543-44), facsimile rept., The Renaissance and the Gods, 2 vols. (New York: Garland, 1976). On Badius, see Philippe Renouard, Bibliographie des impressions et des oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius, imprimeur et humaniste, 1462-1535, 3 vols. (Paris: E. Paul et fils et Guillemin, 1908), rpt. Burt Franklin Bibliographical and Reference Series 48 (New York: Burt Franklin, 1967) and now Paul Gerhard Schmidt, "Iodocus Badius Ascensius als Kommentator," Der Kommentar in der Renaissance, ed. August Buck and Otto Herding, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Kommission für Humanismusforschung 1 (Boppard: Bolt, 1975), 63-71.

Bartolinus, School of. An Aeneid Commentary of Mixed Type: The Glosses in MSS Harley 4946 and Ambrosius G111 inf. Ed. Julian Ward Jones, Jr. Studies and Texts 126. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996. Several corrections to Jones's edition are suggested in a review by Charles E. Murgia, Speculum 73 (1998): 199-201.

Brown, Virginia, and Craig Kallendorf. "Two Humanist Annotators of Virgil: Coluccio Salutati and Giovanni Tortelli." Studies in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller: Supplementum Festivum. Ed. James Hankins, John Monfasani, and Frederick Purnell, Jr. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 49. Binghamton: Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, 1987. 65-148.

Ciones de Magnali (Zono de Magnalis). Commentary on Aen. 6. For description, see M[ary] L[ouise] Lord. "A Commentary on Aeneid 6: Ciones de Magnali, not Nicholas Trevet." Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 15 (1987): 147-60.

Hardie, Phillip Russell. "Humanist Exegesis of Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Italy and the Medieval Tradition of Commentary." M.Phil thesis U of London (Warburg Institute), 1976.

Harington, Sir John. The Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid Translated and Commented on by Sir John Harington. Ed. Simon Cauchi. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.

Landino, Cristoforo. Quaestiones Camaldulenses. c. 1472. Also known as the Disputationes Camaldulenses. (The last two books give a detailed interpretation of Aeneid 1-6. Published a commentary on Dante in 1481, and a commentary on Virgil in 1488; this commentary cross-references both the earlier Disputationes and the commentary on Dante.)

Leto, Pomponio. See Aldo Lunelli, "Il commento virgiliano di Pomponio Leto," Atti del Convegno virgiliano di Brindisi nel Bimillenario della Morte, Brindisi 15-18 ott. 1981. [Puglia]: Istituto di filologia latina dell'Università di Perugia, 1983. 309-22.

Malaman, A. "Le 'Castigationes Virgilianae lectionis' di Pierio Valeriano e il Codice Romano Vaticano di Virgilio." Atti dell'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 100 (1940): 81-91.

Michel de Tours. Commentary on Bucoliques de Virgile Maron. 1516.

Poliziano, Angelo. Commento inedito alle Georgiche di Virgilio. Ed. Livia Castano Musicò. Istituto nazionale di studi sul rinascimento: studi e testi 18. Florence: Olschki, 1990.

Pontanus, Jacobus. Symbolarum libri xvii Virgilii. Augsburg: J. Praetorius, 1599. 3 vols. Facs. rpt. The Renaissance and the Gods. New York: Garland Pub., 1976. (17 books= Aen. 12 + Geo. 4 + Ecl. 1.)

Ramus, Petrus. P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, P. Rami, eloquentiae et philosophiae professoris regii, praelectionibus exposita: quibus poetae vita praeposita est. Paris: A. Wechelus, 1555. Rpt. 1558, 1572, 1582, 1590, and 1613 in Paris, Frankfurt, and Hanover. (Allegorical readings of Ecl.)

Ramus, Petrus. P. Virgilii Maronis Georgica, P. Rami, eloquentiae et philosophiae professoris regii, praelectionibus illustrata. Paris: A. Wechelus, 1556. Rpt. in 1561, 1564, 1578, 1584, 1606 in Paris and Frankfurt. (Allegorical readings of Geo.)

Speroni, Sperone. See Ferruccio Zanibon, Virgilio e l'Enéide secondo un critico del cinquecento: contributo alla storia della critica nel secolo XVI (Messina: Librerìa intenazionale, A. Trimacchi, 1895). (Pamphlet: Regenstein [Chicago] PA6826.C7 v.1)

Twyne, Thomas. Marginal gloss in 1573 edition (black-letter) of the Phaer-Twyne translation of the Aeneid.

Valla, Lorenzo. De voluptate. c. 1449. Tr. A. Kent Hieatt and Maristella Lorch. On Pleasure--De Voluptate. New York: Abaris, 1977. (Contains commentary on Geo. 2.473-542; see Lorch's article, below.)

Virgilio, Marcello. Unpublished lectures on Aen. 1501-2. Described in Peter Godman, From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998), ch. 5.

Vives, Juan Luis. Allegorical readings of Ecl. and Geo.