Latin Translations
| Date | Author, Work | Printer | Location | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c.1466 | John Chrysostom, Nonaginta homiliae in Mattheum | Johannes Mentelin | Strasbourg | Latin translation by Georgius Trapezuntius. The translation was made between 1448 and 1450. |
| 1469 | Alcinous | Sweynheym and Pannartz | Rome | Translated sometime before 1461 by Petrus Balbus with a dedication to Nicholas of Cusa. This author is contained in the editio princeps of Apuleius' works edited by Joannes Andreas de Buxis. |
| 1470 | Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica | Nicolaus Jenson | Venice | Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius between 1448 and 1450. The edition omits the last of the 15 books due to the use of an incomplete manuscript. Beginning with that of Andreas Contrarius in 1454, this translation was object of many criticisms. |
| 1471 | Corpus Hermeticum | Gerardus de Lisa | Treviso | Translation finished by Marsilio Ficino in 1463 following a request by Cosimo de' Medici. The volume, entitled Pimander, sive De potestate et sapientia Dei, only includes the translation of 14 of the 18 texts that compose the Corpus Hermeticum. |
| 1472 | Diodorus Siculus | Poggio Bracciolini | partial Latin translation; complete edition 1559 | |
| 1475 | Aristotle, Rhetorica | Iohannes Stoll and Petrus Caesaris Wagner | Paris | Latin translation by Georgius Trapezuntius. The translation had been accomplished between 1443 and 1446. |
| 1481 | Themistius, De anima | Treviso | Translated and edited by Hermolaus Barbarus, with a dedication to the humanist Georgius Merula. | |
| 1482 | Euclid | Erhard Ratdolt | Latin edition. | |
| 1484 | Plato | Laurentius de Alopa | Florence | Opera Omnia Latin edition. Translated by Marsilio Ficino. |
| 1498 | Aristotle, Ars Poetica | Translated by Giorgio Valla | ||
| 1527 | Philo | Adam Petri | Basel | Edited by Johann Sichard (Sichardus). First part published by Agostino Giustiniani (Iustianus), O.P. in Paris (1520) |
| 1558 | Marcus Aurelius, Meditations | Andreas Gessner | Zurich | Edited and translated into Latin by Wilhelm Xylander (title: De seipso, seu vita sua, libri 12) |
| 1562 | Sextus Empiricus | Henri Estienne | Geneva | Latin translation of Sextus's "Outlines", followed by a complete Latin Sextus with Gentian Hervet as translator in 1569. Petrus and Jacobus Chouet published the Greek text for the first time in 1621. |
| 1575 | Diophantus | Eusebius Episcopius & heirs of Nicolaus Episcopius | Basel | Edition of Rerum Arithmeticarum Libri sex translated by Xylander |
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