Los Martialis disticha del taller de Juan de Burgos (1490) y la tradición impresa antigua de los Epigramas de Marcial

Abstract

This article deals with the study of the early printed tradition of Martial and it is focused on the partial edition of the Epigrammata made in the printing house of Juan de Burgos in 1490, preserved in a single copy (Évora, BPE Inc. 299). It constitutes the first printed testimony of the work of Marcial in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the few incunable editions of this author made outside Italy. The analysis of Martialis’ Italian printed tradition between 1470 and 1490 leads to identify two groups of editions that are more common in this period: one linked to the edition of Merula (Venice, c. 1472), and the other derived from the edition of Calderini (Venice,bishop/bishop/ 1480). The collation of the Burgos printing with these editions allows to conclude that the Burgos edition depends on the group of editions of Calderini, and, more specifically, on the Venetian edition printed by Thomas de Blavis in 1482, which constitutes the model on which the Burgos edition has been based.