Carmina de polysemis et vocabulorum differentiis. A 16th-century Kolozsvár edition of Guarino da Verona’s theoretical work

Abstract

Guarino da Verona's grammatical and poetic work was published in one volume alongside a similar work by Christophorus Hecyrus (likely Christoph Schweier) in Kolozsvár (Claudiopolis, Klausenburg, Cluj-Napoca) in 1588. The two works had previously been published together in a separate volume in Nuremberg and as part of a larger compilation in Frankfurt. Guarino is best known in Hungary as a teacher of Janus Pannonius. A more thorough understanding of his reception can be gained through a description of the most important features of the work in question. Guarino's work was probably written between 1414 and 1419. Its original text was commented on and supplemented by numerous scholars. The Kolozsvár volume may have been modeled on the aforementioned German editions, which may have already included revisions.