Georg Fabricius and inscriptions as a source of law

Renaissance Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 96-107

  Stenhouse, William ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61149288166     PISSN: 02691213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-4658.00008     Document Type: Article

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29. R. Cooper, 'Epigraphical research in Rome in the mid-sixteenth century: the papers of Antonio Agustín and Jean Matal', in Crawford, Antonio Agustín, 95-111.
30. The fullest account of Fabricius' life is still J. D. Schreber, Vita clarissimi viri Georgii Fabricii chemnicensis (Leipzig, 1717)
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37. C. Gesner, Biblioteca instituta et collecta (Zurich, 1583), 268, where the Blasius Fabricius edition is ascribed to 1540.
38. Fichardus' account of his trip is reprinted in the Frankfurtisches Archiv für ältere deutsche Litteratur und Geschichte, 3 (1815), 1-130.
39. On this collection, see Germano, 'Testimonianze epigrafiche', 928-31.
40. See N. Barker, 'Antonio Agustín letter to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza', in Crawford (ed.), Antonio Agustín, 21-9 (24).
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45. D. Baumgarten-Crusius, G. Fabricii epistolae ad W. Meurerum et alios aequales (Leipzig, 1845), no. 100, p. 90 (27 June 1553): 'Iunii die XI Unicelebii apud me nuncius fuit, cui etiam literas ad te dedi de paedagogo quaerendo: eas num acceperis dubito. Ideam fasciculum habebat ad patronum, sed veror in equites Marchianos Romam ne inciderit, qui spoliarint periissent mihi labores mei. Romam enim emendaveram rogatu Oporini, et adjunxeram alios duos libellos ex Antiquitatibus.'
46. J-L. Ferrary (in personal correspondence) suggests the date should be 1555 on the basis of letters of Georg to his brother Andreas published by H. Peter, Jahresbericht der Fürsten- und Landesschule St. Afra in Meissen (1890/1), 1-32, which I have not seen.
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55. On the whole affair, see Ferrary, Onofrio Panvinio, 63-8.
56. On Fabricius' poetry, see E. Schäfer, Deutscher Horaz: Conrad Celtis, Georg Fabricius, Paul Melissus, Jacob Balde (Wiesbaden, 1976).
57. See for example, his edition of Horace, Poemata illustrata argumentis & castigationibus Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis (Leipzig, 1571), where the Argumenta & castigationes include frequent references to inscriptions.