Tacitus' Germania and Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1587): A Study of the Editorial and Exegetical Contribution of a Sixteenth Century Scholar.

Renaissance Quarterly | December 22, 1997| | Copyright

From the late fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, the Germania served German intellectuals as an indispensable text in the process of national self-discovery and self-definition. Recovered from the monastic library at Hersfeld by Poggio, Tacitus's little tract was first given prominence by Enea Silvio Piccolomini who, one year before he became Pope Plus H in 1458, used it as his source for a polemical description of ancient Germany as a barbarous place awaiting civilization by the Roman church. German humanists took up the challenge, making the Germania a subject of ...

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