A new epigram of Matthew Devaris

P. 379–390.

Vorobyev G.

Matthew Devaris, one of the prominent Hellenists in 16th-century Rome, is known,
inter alia, as an author of Greek epigrams. Some of them were printed in the preface to
his Liber de Graecae linguae particulis in 1588. As for the rest, several epigrams were
published in 1962 by Faidon Bubulidis and a few other ones by Anna Meschini Pontani
in 1978. Meschini Pontani supposed that the corpus of Devaris’ epigrams might turn
out to be larger. Indeed, one of his unknown poems has recently come to light in an
unexpected place. A paper leaf preserved in the Archives of the Saint Petersburg Institute
for History (carton 671, No. 54) is a subscribed copy of his epigram dedicated to
Guglielmo Sirleto, apparently an autograph. Its first publication is offered here, together
with an introductory note and some remarks concerning Devaris’ possible sources.

Keywords: палеография, гуманизм, humanism, древнегреческий язык, paleography, Ancient Greek, Byzance après Byzance, Byzance après Byzance

In book

Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe. Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture

Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2018.