La tradizione dei graeca nelle Divinae institutiones di Lattanzio nel Quattrocento

The paper traces the history of humanistic restoration of the Greek passages in Lactantius’ Divinae institutiones. The insertion of the graeca by Guarino in MS Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. B. IV. 2609 is the first step of this operation. Later Ambrogio Traversari made a further restoration, some stages of which are testified by five manuscripts where the Greek is inserted by Traversari. The results of this restoration became the ‘vulgate’ of Lactantius’ Greek passages in the 15th century. Francesco Filelfo revised this common text by giving it metrical regularity.