Title: Vocabolario per le vite di Cornelio Nepote compilato da Giacomo Cortese
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 197. The present edition lacks the series statement of the “Collezione di vocabolari speciali per i classici greci e latini.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See W. Speyer, Die literarische Fälschung im heidnischen und christlichen Altertum: ein Versuch ihrer Deutung. Munich, 1971, p. 323, on Giacomo Cortese’s forgery of Cornelius Nepos. Cortese, a specialist in Nepos, concocted fragments of the lost thirteenth book of De illustribus viris, titled tantalizingly ‘De historicis latinis.’</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103066" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>