The Consolation of Philosophy (1934) - Page 5

He was killed in the territory of Milan, as the Anonymus Valesianus Mon. Germ. A. A. IX 306. Calvenzano is now the name of a village situated near the town of Treviglio. G. Pfeilschifter, 'Der Ostgotenkönig Theoderich der Große' (Kirchengesch. Stud. III 1/2, Münster 1896, 175, 1) with Suttner (see the school booklet from Eichstätt, 1852) thinks of Chiavenna, whose Latin name is Clavenna; however, he correctly contradicts those who claim Boethius died in Ticinum (Migne LXIV 1503). testifies, at Calventianus. While he was in custody Biraghi, Boezio filosofo, teologo, martire a Calvenzano Milanese (Milan 1865) 25, observes that words read on page 29, 26 ff. of the edition stand against the idea of a prison., he used the sources—of which I shall speak in the next part of the preface—to compose the five books of the Consolation of Philosophy in such a way that, following the example of Varro's Menippean Satires and others, he interspersed poems Regarding the poems (see Index of Poems, p. 128), which are here and there praised with excessive enthusiasm, Usener's judgment is this (p. 42): "which, while they demonstrate an extremely low aptitude for poetry and great clumsiness in the poetic shaping of thought, yet also display a training and versatility of versification worthy of recognition for the time"; see, however, Rand, Harvard Stud. in Class. Phil. XV 4 ff., Galdi, Athenaeum 1929, 363 ff. into prose speech.

II. ON THE SOURCES.

Many Greeks and Romans have composed books or poems on Consolation, of which few are preserved intact; some are known by individual passages or by cited titles Cf. A. C. van Heusde, Diatribe in locum phil. moralis, qui est De consolatione. Utrecht 1840, 169. C. Buresch, Consolationum a Graecis Romanisque scriptarum historia. Stud. Lips. IX 1887, 1–170. L. van Wageningen, De Ciceronis libro Consolationis, Groningen 1916 (I discover that he dealt with the consolation of death in Verslagen en Mededeelingen der k. Ak. van Wetenschappen. Dept. of Literature III 2, 175; see Woch. f. kl. Phil. 1919, 87). Regarding the commentary that W. Schaeffer titled Argumenta consolatoria quae apud veteres Graecos scriptores inveniuntur (Ann. facultatis philos. Gottingensis II [1922]) see Phil. Woch. 1924, 377.. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy to a great extent...