Karl der Große im italienischen Renaissance-Humanismus
Die Vita Caroli Magni des Hilarion aus Verona für Francesco Tedeschini-Piccolomini. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Most probably in the late 1470s or early 1480s, the historically interested cardinal and patron Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (1437/39–1503) requested the monk and humanist Hilarion of Verona (c.1444–c.1484) to revise an older Vita Caroli Magni with regard to its content and style, as the cardinal considered the text no longer in keeping with the times. Hilarion accepted the request and penned a new vita of the Carolingian ruler, relying heavily on the classical 9th-century vita of...
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