Ne semble-t-il pas au lecteur, comme à moi, que la langue de la dernière décadence latine - suprême soupir d'une personne robuste, déjà transformée et préparée pour la vie spirituelle - est singulièrement propre à exprimer la passion telle que l'a comprise et sentie le monde poétique moderne ? La mysticité est l'autre pôle de cet aimant dont Catulle et sa bande, poètes brutaux et purement épidermiques, n'ont connu que le pôle sensualité. Dans cette merveilleuse langue, le solécisme, le barbarisme me paraissent rendre les négligences forcées d'une passion qui s'oublie et se moque des règles. Les mots, pris dans une acception nouvelle, révèlent la maladresse charmante du barbare du nord, agenouillé devant la beauté romaine.
This paper contains the transcription and the analysis of the marginal notes by the first hand in Catullus’ text 1-16 of codex Traguriensis (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 7989).
The poems of Catullus barely managed to survive the Middle Ages. All surviving copies of the collection derive from an extremely corrupt manuscript, and scholars have been working since the Renaissance to reconstruct the original text. This volume aims to contribute to this effort with a substantive Introduction, and with six original papers, from a team of noted international specialists. The papers were presented in 2011 at the conference 'What Catullus Wrote' at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich. The authors represent different generations of scholarship and of academic tradition. They here study aspects of the manuscript tradition of the poems and their editorial history as well as contributing directly to the reconstruction of the text. The volume aims to set an example of a collaborative approach to textual criticism, in which significant choices are based not on the judgement of a single authoritative editor, but on the outcome of debate between scholars who represent a broad range of viewpoints.
Catullus, Gaius Valerius:
Carmina mit Kommentar, Vita Catulls, Widmungsbrief an Laurentius Bragadenus und Vorwort an den Leser von Palladius Fuscus und Gedicht von Donatus Civalellus. - Mit Privileg
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This website offers a critical edition of the poems of Catullus, a repertory of conjectures on the text, an overview of the ancient quotations from Catullus that have independent source value, and high-quality images of some of the most important manuscripts. <http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2013/01/catullus-online.html>