To accomplish the above task, on the inspiration of Placella, we should
start by gathering together in one copy of the
Gervasi Exemplar
of
Du
and
De
const.
all the identifiable information from the following documents:
Insigniora … menda emendata
(printed in the sixth unnumbered page of
Notae
);
Mendorum … Emendationes
(nine autograph pages attached to
Notae
);
Omissa Aliquot
(page 240 of
De const.
);
Aliquot Emendata
(page 241
of
De const.
); from
Notae
, pages 1-10 for
Du
and pages 11-84 for
De const.
Then we will transfer into this copy of the
Gervasi Exemplar
the new informa-
tion acquired from the
Wildenstein Exemplar
.
The
Diritto universale
has been considered a minor work simply because it
is a Promethean work that escapes a text that is not yet definitive and will remain
unfinished until all surviving copies from the timeline given above will be found
or declared inexistent. The
Wildenstein Exemplar
has brought us back to a seri-
ous philological and philosophical interest for
Il Diritto universale
.
G
IORGIO
A. P
INTON
THE MAXIMILIAN WILDENSTEIN’S
DE UNO
AND
DE CONSTANTIA
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