Late Antique Historiography

Life of Boethius

Title(s):
  • Life of Boethius
  • Vita Boethi
    (Vita Boethi, Life of Boethius)
Author:
Period covered:
Ca. 480-525
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Biography (general)
Remarks:
The work is only attested in a fourteenth-century text and may not be authentic.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Giovanni Mansionario, Historiae imperiales [Veronensis CCIV (189) fol. 135r°B = Cipolla 1893: 70]
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • C. Cipolla (1893) 'Ricerche intorno all'anonymus Valesianus II'. Bulletino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano 13: 7-98.
  • F. Troncarelli (2014) '« Inaudita in excerpta » : la « Vita di Boezio » di Jordanes e i suoi lettori (Giovanni de Matociis, Jacques Sirmond, Nicolas Caussin)'. Revue d'Histoire des Textes 9: 157-199.