Carmen Codoner

Hernan Nunez de Guzman, called Pincianus (ca. 1470/75 - 1553), published an edition of Pomponius Mela with castigationes (Geographia Pomponii Melae cum castigationibus Fredenandi Pinciani, Salamanca 1543). The work is here studied in the context of castigationes written by other humanists, and its sources and method are discussed; Hermolaus Barbarus, Mariangelus Accursius, Petrus Iohannes Olivarius, who wrote on Mela and Pliny, are often quoted by Pincianus. Marginal notes in the hand of Pincianus, extant in the incunable of Hermolaus, Castigationes, now Salamanca, Bibl. Universitaria, Inc. 313, are edited and commented. A list of passages of Mela corrected by Pincianus is offered in the Appendix as well as a list of Greek and Latin authors quoted in his castigationes.