Quando edere é excludere:
um estudo de caso do ‘Apuleio perdido’
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2025.v13.46216Keywords:
Apuleio; fragmentos; Caspar von Barth; falsificaçõesAbstract
In 1624 Caspar von Barth published in his Adversaria (XV, 17) some ‘new fragments’ from Apuleius, both in prose and verse, supposedly discovered in a mysterious manuscript in his own possession. This paper shows that Barth’s manuscript is to be identified with a codex now in Zwickau (Germany), and thereby demonstrates that, of the alleged ‘new fragments’, those in prose are tralatitious, the poetical ones were forged by Barth himself; as a result, all these items must be excluded from future collections of Apuleius’s fragments.
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