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Le présent article étudie la section ‘Laërce’ des Ditz des sages hommes de Guillaume Tardif. Après avoir montré que les anecdotes laërtiens sont tirés de la version latine d’Ambrogio Traversari de Diogène Laërce, l’article étudie la tradition imprimée de ce dernier texte, pour essayer de déterminer quelques caractéristiques de la source utilisée par Tardif.

This paper deals with the humanist reception of St. Basil’s homily In illud: attende tibi ipsi up to 1532. In the XV cent., three new Latin translations were made in the circle of cardinal Bessarion: by Bessarion himself, by his protégé Athanasius Chalkeopulos, and by an anonymous author, probably Pietro Balbi. The translation of Franciscus Maturantius was published as a separate edition in 1522, and that of Rafaelle Maff ei appeared in the first Latin Opera of Basil in 1515. A review of these translations and of the dedicatory epistles shows that not only the humanistic program or theological views of Basil were of interest for the humanists. Attende tibi is valued as an example of biblical exegesis and because of its moral and ascetic content. Although, on the whole, reception centers in this period tend to distance from the Church, all our translators, except for one, are associated with the Roman Catholic Church. The comparison of the biblical «give heed to thyself» with the Delphic «know thyself», found in Maturantius’ dedicatory letter and in Maffei’s marginalia, aims at demonstrating the superiority of Christian wisdom, not at promoting the study of philosophy. Only two of the discussed translations were published, and a more or less large-scale dissemination of Basilius Latinus starts no earlier than in the 20s. of XVI cent., when the translation of Maff ei was reissued in Paris (1520 and 1523), Cologne (in 1523 and 1531) and Basel (1523).

The study is concerned with the history of diplomacy using the brief example of a meeting with Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg in Ferrara in September 1433. The main goal of the paper is to analyze briefly orations delivered by various envoys in the presence of the Emperor as well as to analyze the link between them defined by their Humanism and their love for arts and letters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solving the papal schism at the Council of Constance and conciliarism itself, were the most exciting moments of the Church history of the 15th century. This text is dedicated to the rather late period of conciliarism during the pontificate of the Pope Eugene IV (pont. 1431-1447). The conflict between advocates of the supremacy of the papacy and their conciliaristic opponents interfered into many places and all levels of the society. The text represents the case study describing the conflict inside the hermitage of Camaldolese order in Camaldoli between years 1431-1434. Using the travel diary written by general superior of Camaldolese Ambrogio Traversari, who stood firmly on the side of the Pope, it is possible to trace the growing conflict of Travesari with the Camaldolese hermit John Jerome of Prague. John Jerome had been supporter of conciliarism and he participated in the councils of Pisa and Sienna and in particular of Basel. Text by Traversari illustrates his efforts to strengthen the power of the general superior of Camaldolese and to deal with all of the opponents - especially with the opponents of the Pope. Hodoeporicon by Ambrogio Traversari was used as the basic source for this article. Hodoeporicon itself was recently translated and published by the author of this text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]