Brodarić, Stjepan (1490-1539) [1505], Epistulae, versio electronica. (), Verborum 166, Ed. Petrus Kasza [genre: prosa oratio - epistula] [word count] [brodaricsepistulae].
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[ERROR: no reftable :]1 Angelo Bartolomeo Cospi (1430–1516) Humanist, philologist, teacher of rhetoric at the Vienna University. 2 Giving an exact date for the letter is problematic. Sándor V. Kovács, who first published the text, dated the letter to the second half of the 1530s, because he thought that Brodarics might have got acquainted with Angelo Cospi on his trip to Italy in 1536. Regarding the fact that Cospi died in 1516, the date given by V. Kovács is obviously impossible. Cospi taught rhetoric at the University of Vienna, and it is clear that Brodarics knew him only slightly. However, we know about Cospi that he spent some time in Pozsony in 1515, where in the house of Girolamo Balbi he translated the Didorodus Codex (Libri duo, primus de Philippi Regis Macedoniae, aliorum re quorundam illustrium ducum, alter de Alexandri filii rebus gestis.) The translation was published after Cospi’s death, in 1516 in Vienna in the print-shop of Vietor. (Compare: Hermann Zsuzsa, Egy humanista karrierje (Balbi Jeromos), Az Egyetemi Könyvtár vkönyvei, Budapest, 1964, 233.) Since Balbi, just like Brodarics, belonged to the circle of György Szatmári, Brodarics might have met Cospi through him in 1515-16 when Cospi stayed in Hungary. 3 We do not know whom Brodarics recommended to Cospi. 4 Compare: Martialis I, 54, 5. (Ad Fuscum). Brodarics connects Martialis’ line skilfully to his own text. In the original: Nec me, quod tibi sim novus, recuses; / Omnes hoc veteres tui fuerunt.
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Brodarić, Stjepan (1490-1539) [1505], Epistulae, versio electronica. (), Verborum 166, Ed. Petrus Kasza [genre: prosa oratio - epistula] [word count] [brodaricsepistulae].
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