Consultus Fortunatianus Explained

Consultus Fortunatianus, also known as C. Chirius Fortunatianus, was a Latin Christian rhetor who lived in the 4th–5th century AD, perhaps of African ancestry. He wrote an Ars rhetorica,^[1] in three books. This work was published before 435, since it was used by Martianus Capella.^[2] One of the manuscripts (Cod. Bodmer 146, 10th century) was owned by Francesco Petrarca, who studied and commented on it with many glossa.^[3]

External links

• Rhetores Latini minores, Karl Halm (ed.), Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863, pp. 81-134.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fortunatianus, Consultus. thesaurus.cerl.org. 29 December 2016.
2. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski, The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, p. 295.
3. Web site: Manoscritto con opere retoriche appartenuto a Francesco Petrarca. e-codices.unifr.ch. 29 December 2016.