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‎Giovanni Pontano, Commentationes in centum sententiis Ptolemaei. A Critical Edition‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 372, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 4 col., 1 tables b/w., Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503610160.‎

‎Summary With more than two hundred extant manuscripts, Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium undoubtedly is one of the most popular works of Western Latin astrology. The Commentationes in centum sententiis Ptolemaei is an astrological work in two books in which Giovanni Pontano provides an extensive commentary on the Centiloquium along with his own translation of the original text from Greek. The first book is addressed to the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, and the second one to Pontano's close friend and member of the Neapolitan Academy Pietro Golino (Petrus Compater). Pontano undertook the work in 1477 and kept supplementing and revising it until 1490. The Commentationes had a substantial impact on the astrological literature of the 15th-17th centuries. Published posthumously in 1512 by Pietro Summonte ? but previously widespread through a noteworthy manuscript tradition ? it was reprinted over twenty times until 1674 and became the standard Latin translation of the Centiloquium. While ? together with the De rebus coelestibus ? it represents the most challenging of Pontano's astrological prose, up to date, the Commentationes has never been published in a critical edition nor studied in its textual history. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium: a text of controversial origin The Greek tradition: an historiographical problem The Arabic tradition The medieval Latin tradition The Byzantine tradition The reception of the Centiloquium in 15th-century Italy Chapter 2. The Commentationes in centum sententiis Ptolemaei by Giovanni Pontano 2.1 The author 2.2 Title 2.3 Dating 2.4 Sources 2.5 Influence of the Commentationes Chapter 3. The textual tradition 3.1 The manuscripts and the main prints 3.2 The history of the text 3.2.1 The first stage of the text: ?1 (Va + W) 1473-1474 3.2.2 The second stage of the text: ?2 (U + Ve) 1477 3.2.3 The third stage of the text: ?3 (Va's Book II) after 1477 before 1479 3.2.4 The fourth stage of the text: ?4 (Ven + T) 1479, and the codices descripti FNL 3.2.5 The fifth stage of the text: ?5 (W2 + Vb+D) after 1479 before 1490 3.2.6 The last stage of the text: ?6 (R) 1490 3.3 A synoptic picture of the content of the different textual stages 3.4 A diagram graphing the history of the text 3.5 Conclusion Chapter 4. Editing Methods Part II. Critical Edition Glossary of Selected Words Bibliography Indices‎