About glory ( lat. De gloria ) - one of the lost works of Cicero . It was written in spring or early summer 44 BC. e. It was a small treatise (in two books). The surviving fragments are so insignificant that they do not allow to draw a conclusion about the content [1] . Cicero in letters to Attica from July 11 and 16, 44 BC. e. informs about sending him this work, and asks to read it secretly and only to good listeners [2] . Some historians based on this suggested that the treatise had a political content and could be directed against adherents of Caesar , whom his glory dazzles even after the death of the dictator [1] .
It is believed that this work was found and again lost in the XIV century. Petrarch received the manuscript as a gift from his friend Raimondo Soranzo, but instead of making the list right away, he handed it over to his old Latin teacher, bachelor Convenolevo da Prato , who asked for a text for some work. More than Petrarch did not see this manuscript. The bachelor either lost it, or gave it to someone to read, or laid it down [3] . Petrarch was so annoyed that he severed all relations with Conveneuvole [4] . And a few years later, in the second letter to Cicero (December 19, 1345), the poet lamented this loss, although he did not lose hope that the manuscript could return to him [5]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Utchenko, p. 312
- ↑ Cicero. Letters to Attica. Xvi 2, 6; 3, 1
- ↑ Parandovsky, p. 323
- ↑ CONVENEVOLE da Prato
- ↑ Petrarch. De rebus familiaribus. Xxiv, 4
Literature
- Parandovsky, Jan. Petrarch / Alchemy words. Petrarch. The king of life. - M.: True, 1990 .-- 656 p. - ISBN 5-253-00007-0
- Utchenko S. L. Cicero and his time. - M.: Thought, 1972