GLAREANUS’S CHRONOLOGIA

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, the he married his  rst wife, Ursula Ofenburg, and Firestone Library of Princeton University and the directed a student hostel. Later travels took him to Zentralbibliothek Solothurn () possess Pavia in 1515 and then to Paris, where he remained annotated copies of the 1540 edition of Henricus from 1517 to 1522. Then he returned to . Like Glareanus’s chronology. For pages at a time, the his intellectual model, , Glareanus took a marginal notes in the books are nearly identical, critical view of the Reformation. In 1529, accordingly, but when the copy in Solothurn was restored, both humanists moved from Basel to Freiburg im its pages were chemically washed, so that only a Breisgau. As in Paris he managed hostels in both few handwritten annotations can be deciphered.2 cities, where he held private lectures for his students Taken together, the other two copies yield the (Fig. 1). In 1541 Glareanus married his second wife, original text of Glareanus’s commentary on his Barbara Speyer, and until 1560 he taught poetics, own chronology. More important, they shed a new history and geography at the University of Freiburg. light on his methods as a humanistic scholar, his Glareanus was a renowned and skillful scholar: practices as a teacher, and his ways of using and Erasmus chose him as one of the dream team of recon guring printed books to make them serve experienced correctors assigned to supervise the very speci c scholarly and pedagogical purposes. posthumous edition of his works, and he edited and Like Glareanus’s working copy of Livy in Munich, commented on many ancient authors.5 He took a in which detailed notes and vivid drawings clearly particular interest in the ancient historians of Rome, reveal the processes by which he worked up his Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and drew up notes on and chronology of Livy, the later notes in commentaries on both authors. In 1531, when the these volumes add a chapter to his intellectual and Basel edition of Livy prepared by Caelius Secundus scholarly biography.3 Curio appeared, Glareanus produced chronological The Swiss humanist Heinrich Loriti (1488–1563), tables on Roman history that covered the whole whose Latin name was Henricus Glareanus, came span of years from the foundation of the city to from Mollis in the Canton of Glarus. He attended the time of the Emperor Claudius. A year later he schools in Bern and Rottweil and then studied at the published a heavily revised edition of the Latin Universities of Vienna and Cologne. In 1510 he took translation of the Antiquitates Romanae of Dionysius the degree of Magister artium.4 Two years later the of Halicarnassus by the Florentine humanist Lapo Emperor Maximilian I crowned him Poeta laureatus. Biraghi (1405–1438), which had  rst been printed When the great debate over the Hebrew scholarship at Treviso in 1480.6 Biraghi, a papal secretary and of Johannes Reuchlin broke out, he attacked the friend of Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo Bruni, Dominicans of Cologne and moved to Basel. There had made a great many errors. Glareanus claimed

2 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Departement 5 Markus Nöthiger, “Glareanus als Altphilologe”, in: Rudolf de la musique, Rés. F. 127–128; Princeton, Firestone Library, Aschmann et al., Der Humanist Heinrich Loriti genannt Glare- call number: 2010–0227Q. This book was purchased in Decem- anus (1488–1563). Beiträge zu seinem Leben und Werk (Mollis: ber 2007 from Christopher Edwards. Digital images of the Ortsmuseum, 1983), p. 259; Hans-Hubertus Mack, Humanistische entire work are available at http://pudl.princeton.edu/objects/ Geisteshaltung und Bildungsbemühungen am Beispiel von Hein- s1784k81w [consulted on February 26, 2013]. The copy preserved rich Loriti Glareanus 1488–1563, Diss. phil. Univ. Augsburg (Bad- in the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn is Rar I 1106. Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Linkhardt, 1992), pp. 266–270. 3 On the working copy in Munich, Universitätsbibliothek 6 Glareanus originally intended to ofer this edition to the W 8º A.lat. 692, see Martina Mengele, “‘Ein seltza[m] histori’ printer Episcopius, but Bonifacius Amerbach persuaded him oder: Wie sich Marginalien in einen gedruckten Kommentar ver- not to. He dedicated it to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, who wandeln,” in: Inga Mai Groote (ed.), Blicke über den Seitenrand: was elected king in Cologne on 5 January 1531. See Alfred Der Humanist Heinrich Glarean und seine Bücher, Katalog zur Hartmann (ed.), Die Amerbachkorrespondenz, 4: Die Briefe aus Ausstellung der Universitätsbibliothek München, 19. 4.–30. 6. 2010, den Jahren 1531–1536 (Basel: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, pp. 26–42 (online: http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11471/1/HG 1953), p. 100; Franz-Dieter Sauerborn: “… atque suum familiarem _katalog_11471.pdf). nominarint.” Der Humanist Heinrich Glareanus (1488–1563) 4 Hans-Ulrich Bächtold, “Glareanus,” in: Historisches Lexikon und die Habsburger,” Zeitschrift des Breisgau-Geschichtsvereins der Schweiz, 5 (Basel: Schwabe, 2006), p. 441f. “Schau-ins-Land” 120 (2001), p. 60. 4 glareanus’s chronologia

Fig. 1. S. C. S. M. (= Matthias Sambucellus), a member of Glareanus’s Burse, wrote handwritten commentaries in his own copy of Glareanus’s De situ Helvetiae (Basel 1514). He started with the remark: “Explanatio vocum minus bene cognitarum que in geographia helvecie continentur, quod carmen ipse Henricus Glareanus Basileae in studiorum contubernio 19 Calendas Janua[rij] palam omnibus gymnasij cultoribus decantavit paulo ante annum Christi servatoris nostri 1515 et subinde diligenti labore exposuit.” It is the only known testimony of a private lecture held by Glareanus in his Basel Burse (Universitätsbibliothek Basel, call number: AN XIV 60)