page_title: Onofrio Panvinio
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Onofrio Panvinio / Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: One of twelve engravings depicting Roman emperors from Amplissimi ornatissimiq[ue] triumphi, 1619, by Onofrio Panvinio (1529-1568). Together, the image is more than 14 feet long. Typ 625.18.672, Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: The erudite Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio or Onuphrius Panvinius was an Italian historian and antiquary, who was librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
context_section_description: De fasti et triumphi Romanorum a Romulo usque ad Carolum V, (Giacomo Strada, Venice, 1557), "Fasti and triumphs of the Romans from Romulus to Charles V";
  A revised edition of Carolus Sigonius's Fasti consulares (Venice, 1558);
  De comitiis imperatoriis (Basel, 1558);
  De republica Romana (Venice, 1558); "On the Roman Republic";
  Epitome Romanorum pontificum (Venice, 1557); "Brief history of the Roman pontiffs";
  A revised edition of Bartolomeo Platina's De vitis pontificum (Venice); "On the lives of the popes";
  XXVII Pontif. Max. elogia et imagines" (Rome, 1568); "Elogies and images of twenty-seven pontiffs";
  "De sibyllis et carminibus sibyllinis" (Venice, 1567) ("Of sibyls and Sibylline oracles");
  Chronicon ecclesiasticum a C. Julii Caesaris tempore usque ad imp. Maximilianum II (Cologne, 1568); "Ecclesiastical chronicle from the time of Julius Caesar to that of Emperor Maximilian";
  De episcopatibus, titulis, et diaconiis cardinalium (Venice, 1567);"of the bishoprics, tituli and diaconates of the cardinals";
  De ritu sepeliendi mortuos apud veteres Christianos (Cologne, 1568); "Of burial rites for the dead among the early Christians";
  De praecipuis urbis Romae santioribusque basilicis (Rome, 1570; Cologne, 1584);
  De primatu Petri et apostolicae selis potestate (Verona 1589): "Of the primacy of Peter and the power of the apostolic see";
  Libri X de varia Romanorum pontificum creatione (Venice, 1591);
  De bibliotheca pontificia vaticana (Tarragona, 1587); "On the pontifical Vatican Library";
  Augustiniani ordinis chronicon (Rome, 1550); "Chronicle of the Augustinian Order";
  De ludis circensibus (Venice, 1600); "On the circus games". A posthumous publication with etchings by Dupérac that date to the 1560s.
  A second edition with Notes and Additions by Giovanni Argoli and Niccolò Pinelli was published at Padua, 1642 , and reprinted in: Johann Georg Graevius, ed. (1699). Thesaurus antiquitatum romanarum. IX. Leida: Petrus van der Aa.
  Epitome antiquitatum romanarum (Rome, 1558);
  De antique Romanorum religione; "On the ancient religion of the Romans";
  Karl Gersbach, OSA, has published numerous articles on aspects of Panvinio's career. Philip Jacks set his career in the context of early antiquarian investigations in The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought. (Cambridge University Press) 1993. Jean-Louis Ferrary's study, Onofrio Panvinio et les antiquités romaines (Rome) 1996, focuses on Panvinio's works on Roman antiquity. For a modern biography of Panvinio, see Stefan Bauer, The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform (Oxford University Press, 2020).
caption: Section from Amplissimi ornatissimiq[ue] triumphi, 1619, by Onofrio Panvinio
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