Raphael Regius and his Exegesis of the Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Abstract

Precisions on Raphael Regius’s modus operandi in his commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, organized in the following sections: 1. Roman legislation, divinatory art and history; 2 attention to the textual variants; 3 explanation of names of places and geographical or scientific curiosities; 4. debts toward Boccaccio’s Genealogia deorum and 5. silence on his sources. A detailed study of different annotations is made in each of those sections. This study helps to emphasize the importance of Regius and his commentary that frequently aids to establish the ovidian text by reflecting the knowledge of both Classical Literature and Mythology at XVth and XVIth centuries.