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ap + DIODORI SICVLI SCRIPTORIS GRAECI LIBRI DVO, PRIMVS DE PHILIPPI REGIS MACE, DONIAE, ALIORVM VE QVORVN, DAM ILLVSTRIVM DVCVM, AL TER DE ALEXANDRI FILI REBVS GESTIS, VTRVNOVE LATINITATE DONAVIT ANGELVS COSPVS BONONIENSIS, ALEXANDRI REGIS VITA, QVAM GRAE CE SCRIPTAM A IOANNE MONA, CHO ANG. COSPVS VERTIT IN NOSTRAM LINGVAM, NON SINE PRIVILEGIO HAEC EDITA, 04. Diodorus Siculus—Cospus 1516 Cospus translated and published the biography of Alexander the Great from the Zonaras corvina that belonged to Cuspinianus at the time, and included it as the appendix.'” Without reciting the entire Zonaras’s philological literature, I wish to mention just a few examples of how the reputation of the Corvina was spread through the editions of Alexander the Great’s biography published by Ioannes Zonaras (Johannes Monachus, 10742-1159). In the 1516 edition the translator, Angelo Bartolomero Cospo (1430-1516) does not mention that the codex which preserved the Greek history would have been a corvina, and neither does he mention it in his dedication to Emperor Maximilain I (1508-1519) (this introduces the text of Diodorus Siculus), nor in the dedication to Jacobus Bannissus’s imperial privy councillor predating the Zonarass translation." In the first preface he only 22 Zonaras [=Johannes Monachus], A/exandri regis vita, in Dioporus Sicutus—Cospus 1516. The codex: ONB Hist. Gr. 16., the edition: OSZK App. H. 2526.; Csapon1 1973, Nr. 225, Nr. 708. 3 ANKwicz-KLEEHOVEN 1959, 58, 102, 207. says he was advisor to Maximilian I (1501-1516) and later became canon of Trento. Istvan Fazekas helped me find information about his life, many thanks to him. 32
