Talk:Cornificia

Reference to quotation of Virginia Brown's translation
I could be very well mistaken on how I am referencing this, so please show me where I should put the reference since I know you are very knowledgable on things like this. On page 174 of Brown's translation it reads, ''...and to have been just as celebrated as her brother Cornificius, a renowned poet of the same period. She was not satisfied with having, thanks to her splendid talent, merely a way with words. I think that the sacred Muses inspired her to use her learned pen in the composition of verses worthy of Helicon. Rejecting the distaff, Cornificia wrote many notable epigrams still held in esteem at the time of St. Jerome, as he himself attests. Then on page 175 it continues with, ....By means of talent and hard work she succeeded in rising above her sex, and with her splendid effort she acquired for herself fame that is perpetual and rare precisely because it stands for an excellence few men have equalled. The wording in the article says it is Boccaccio saying this, so it looks to me to be saying essentially about the same thing, but in two different ways translated off Boccaccio. Your's is Guarino's translation and mine is Brown's, however I believe they both refer to the same quote. That could be the wording of Guarino's translation (I don't know) but the article did not say this was Guarino's wording, just ...which says of her..., which to me is Boccaccio speaking. If after this explanation you still feel it is not correct, then just leave it out - I have no objection. You would be the better judge on this.--Doug talk 12:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, indeed, Doug, two translations of the Latin of Boccaccio. I have Guarino's, which is the one I quoted in the article, though not in full. Frankly, Boccaccio isn't a primary or secondary source for Cornificia, but we have so little on her that I put it in. I think it's fair, at least, to mention Boccaccio's (and Laura Cereta's) interest in Cornificia, but there's no need for more than the citation of the translation used. Xn4  17:59, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. --Doug talk 18:10, 25 December 2007 (UTC)