Onofrio Panvinio - Publications

Publications

• De fasti et triumphi Romanorum a Romulo usque ad Carolum V;; (Venice, 1557) "On the festivals and triumphs of the Romans from Romulus to Charles V";
• A revised edition of Carolus Sigonius's Fasti consulares (Venice, 1558);
• De comitiis imperatoriis (Basel, 1558);
• De republica Romana (Venice, 1558); "On the Roman Republic";
• Epitome Romanorum pontificum (Venice, 1557); "Brief history of the Roman pontiffs";
• A revised edition of Bartolomeo Platina's De vitis pontificum (Venice); "On the lives of the popes";
• XXVII Pontif. Max. elogia et imagines" (Rome, 1568); "Elogies and images of twenty-seven pontiffs";
• "De sibyllis et carminibus sibyllinis" (Venice, 1567) ("Of sibyls and Sibylline oracles");
• Chronicon ecclesiasticum a C. Julii Caesaris tempore usque ad imp. Maximilianum II (Cologne, 1568); "Ecclesiastical chronicle from the time of Julius Caesar to that of Emperor Maximilian";
• De episcopatibus, titulis, et diaconiis cardinalium (Venice, 1567);"of the bishoprics, tituli and diaconates of the cardinals";
• De ritu sepeliendi mortuos apud veteres Christianos (Cologne, 1568); "Of burial rites for the dead among the early Christians";
• De praecipuis urbis Romae santioribusque basilicis (Rome, 1570; Cologne, 1584);
• De primatu Petri et apostolicae selis potestate (Verona 1589): "Of the primacy of Peter and the power of the apostolic see";
• Libri X de varia Romanorum pontificum creatione (Venice, 1591);
• De bibliotheca pontificia vaticana (Tarragona, 1587); "On the pontifical Vatican Library";
• Augustiniani ordinis chronicon (Rome, 1550); "Chronicle of the Augustinian Order";
• De ludis circensibus (Venice, 1600); "On the circus games". A posthumous publication with etchings by Dupérac that date to the 1560s.
• Epitome antiquitatum romanarum (Rome, 1558);
• De antique Romanorum religione; "On the ancient religion of the Romans";

Karl Gersbach, OSA, has published numerous articles on aspects of Panvinio's career. Philip Jacks set his career in the context of early antiquarian investigations in The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought. (Cambridge University Press) 1993. The only modern biography is Jean-Louis Ferrary's bibliographic study, Onofrio Panvinio et les antiquités romaines (Rome) 1996.