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850 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
, ed essa da martiro E da esiglio venne a questa pace. Importance of the Consolatio After the introduction of the works of Aristotle into Europe in the 13th century, Boethius's fame gradually died away, and he affords a remarkable instance of an author, who having served a great purpose for nearly 1000 years, now that that purpose has been accomplished, will sink into obscurity as general as was once his celebrity. The first author who quotes his works is Hincmar (1.211, 460, 474, 521), A. D. 850, and in the subsequent literature of the middle ages the Consolatio gave birth to imitations, translations, and commentaries, innumerable. (Warton's Eng. Poet. 2.342, 343.) Of four classics in the Paris library in A. D. 1300 this was one. (Ib. i. p. cxii.) Of translations the most famous were one into Greek, of the poetical portions of the work, by Maximus Planudes (first published by Weber, Darmstadt, 1833), into Hebrew by Ben Banschet (Wolf. Bibl. Heb. 1.229, 1092, 243, 354, 369; Fabric.
522 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
tic life, he was singularly happy, as the husband of Rusticiana, daughter of Symmachus (Consol. Phil. 2.3, 4; Procop. Goth. 3.20), and the father of two sons, Aurelius Anicius Symmachus, and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, who were consuls, A. D. 522. (Consol. Phil. 2.3, 4.) He naturally rose into public notice, became patrician before the usual age (Consol. Phil. 2.3), consul in A. D. 510, as appears from the diptychon of his consulship still preserved in Brescia (See Fabric. Bibl. Lat. 3. for Gundebald, king of the Burgundians (ib. 1.45), and for the recommendation of a good musician to Clovis, king of the Franks. (Ib. 2.40.) And he reached the height of his prosperity when, on the inauguration of his two sons in the consulate, A. D. 522, after pronouncing a panegyric on Theodoric, he distributed a largess to the Roman populace in the games of the circus. (Consol. Phil. 2.3.) This happiness was suddenly overcast. He had resolved, on his entrance into public life, to carry out
487 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
Boe'thius whose full name was ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS (to which a few MSS. of his works add the name of Torquatus, and commentators prefix by conjecture the praenomen Flavius from his father's consulship in A. D. 487), a Roman statesman and author, and remarkable as standing at the close of the classical and the commencement of scholastic philosophy. He was born between A. D. 470 and 475 (as is inferred from Consol. Phil. 1.1). The Anician family had for the two preceding centuries ave been reckoned amongst the direct ancestors of Boethius. But the only conjecture worth notice is that which makes his grandfather to have been the Flavius Boethius murdered by Valentinian III. A. D. 455. His father was probably the consul of A. D. 487, and died in the childhood of his son, who was then brought up by some of the chief men at Rome, amongst whom were probably Festus and Symmachus. (Consol. Phil. 2.3.) He was famous for his general learning (Ennodius, Ep. 8.1) and his laboriou
541 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
2.1), or (according to Anonym. Vales. p. 36) by the torture of a cord drawn round his head till the eyes were forced from their sockets, and then by beating with clubs till he expired. Symmachus was also beheaded, and Rusticiana reduced to poverty, till Amalasontha, widow of Theodoric and regent during her son's minority, replaced his statues and restored to her his confiscated property. (Procop. Goth. 1.2, Anec. 10; Jornand. Reb. Get. 89.) Rusticiana was, however, on the sack of Rome, in A. D. 541, chiefly by her liberality to the besieged, again reduced to beggary, and was only saved by the kindness of Totila from the fury which this liberality, as well as her destruction of Theodoric's statues in revenge for her husband and father, had excited in the Gothic army. (Procop. Goth. 3.20.) In A. D. 722, a tomb was erected to Boethius's memory by Luitprand, king of the Lombards, in the church of S. Pietro Cielo d'Oro, and in A. D. 990, a more magnificent one by Otho III., with an epitap
526 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
nect his name more distinctly with Christianity, which leads to the last and most signal variation in his history. 5. Considered a Catholic Saint and Martyr He was long considered as a Catholic saint and martyr, and in later times stories were current of his having been a friend of St. Benedict, and having supped at Monte Cassino (Trithemius, apud Fabric. Bibl. Lat. 3.15), and again of miracles at his death, as carrying his head in his hand (Life of him by Martianus, apud Baron. Annual. A. D. 526, No. 17, 18), which last indeed probably arose from the fact of this being the symbolical representation of martyrdom by decapitation; as the particular day of his death (Oct. 23) was probably fixed by its being the day of two other saints of the same name of Severinus. Whatever may be thought of these details, the question of his Christianity itself is beset with difficulties in whichever way it may be determined. On the one hand, if the works on dogmatical theology ascribed to him be r
455 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
ing at the close of the classical and the commencement of scholastic philosophy. He was born between A. D. 470 and 475 (as is inferred from Consol. Phil. 1.1). The Anician family had for the two preceding centuries been the most illustrious in Rome (see Gibbon, 100.31), and several of its members have been reckoned amongst the direct ancestors of Boethius. But the only conjecture worth notice is that which makes his grandfather to have been the Flavius Boethius murdered by Valentinian III. A. D. 455. His father was probably the consul of A. D. 487, and died in the childhood of his son, who was then brought up by some of the chief men at Rome, amongst whom were probably Festus and Symmachus. (Consol. Phil. 2.3.) He was famous for his general learning (Ennodius, Ep. 8.1) and his laborious translations of Greek philosophy (Cassiodor. Ep. 1.45) as well as for his extensive charities to the poor at Rome, both natives and strangers. (Procop. Goth. 1.1.) In his domestic life, he was singul
500 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
ometimes ascribed to him are made up from that of his father in 487, and that of his sons in 522. 3. Previously husband of Elpis Besides his wife, Rusticiana, later and especially Sicilian writers have supposed, that he was previously the husband of a Sicilian lady, Elpis, authoress of two hymns used in the Breviary (" Decora lux," and " Beate Pastor," or according to others, " Aurea luce," and "Felix per omnes"), and by her to have had two sons, Patricius and Hypatius, Greek consuls in A. D. 500. But this has no ground in history: the expression " socerorum," in Consol. Phil. 2.3, refers not to two fathers-in-law, but to the parents of Rusticiana; and the epitaph of Elpis, which is the only authentic record of her life, contradicts the story altogether, by implying that she followed her husband (who is not named) into exile, which would of course leave no time for his second marriage and children. (See Tiraboschi, vol. iii. lib. 1. c.4.) 4. Death and the Embassy of Pope John I.
470 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
Boe'thius whose full name was ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS (to which a few MSS. of his works add the name of Torquatus, and commentators prefix by conjecture the praenomen Flavius from his father's consulship in A. D. 487), a Roman statesman and author, and remarkable as standing at the close of the classical and the commencement of scholastic philosophy. He was born between A. D. 470 and 475 (as is inferred from Consol. Phil. 1.1). The Anician family had for the two preceding centuries been the most illustrious in Rome (see Gibbon, 100.31), and several of its members have been reckoned amongst the direct ancestors of Boethius. But the only conjecture worth notice is that which makes his grandfather to have been the Flavius Boethius murdered by Valentinian III. A. D. 455. His father was probably the consul of A. D. 487, and died in the childhood of his son, who was then brought up by some of the chief men at Rome, amongst whom were probably Festus and Symmachus. (Consol. Phil.
722 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
son's minority, replaced his statues and restored to her his confiscated property. (Procop. Goth. 1.2, Anec. 10; Jornand. Reb. Get. 89.) Rusticiana was, however, on the sack of Rome, in A. D. 541, chiefly by her liberality to the besieged, again reduced to beggary, and was only saved by the kindness of Totila from the fury which this liberality, as well as her destruction of Theodoric's statues in revenge for her husband and father, had excited in the Gothic army. (Procop. Goth. 3.20.) In A. D. 722, a tomb was erected to Boethius's memory by Luitprand, king of the Lombards, in the church of S. Pietro Cielo d'Oro, and in A. D. 990, a more magnificent one by Otho III., with an epitaph by pope Sylvester II. (Tiraboschi, vol. iii. lib. 1. c.4.) Other Stories of Boethius' Life With the facts stated above have been mixed up various stories, more or less disputed, which seem to have grown with the growth of his posthumous reputation. 1. Stay at Athens and attendance on the lecture of P
510 AD (search for this): entry boethius-bio-1
r his extensive charities to the poor at Rome, both natives and strangers. (Procop. Goth. 1.1.) In his domestic life, he was singularly happy, as the husband of Rusticiana, daughter of Symmachus (Consol. Phil. 2.3, 4; Procop. Goth. 3.20), and the father of two sons, Aurelius Anicius Symmachus, and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, who were consuls, A. D. 522. (Consol. Phil. 2.3, 4.) He naturally rose into public notice, became patrician before the usual age (Consol. Phil. 2.3), consul in A. D. 510, as appears from the diptychon of his consulship still preserved in Brescia (See Fabric. Bibl. Lat. 3.15), and princeps senatus. (Procop. Goth. 1.1.) He also attracted the attention of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, was appointed (Anonym. Vales. p. 36) magister officiorum in his court, and was applied to by him for a mathematical regulation of the coinage to prevent forgery (Cassiod. Ep. 1.10), for a sun-dial and waterclock for Gundebald, king of the Burgundians (ib. 1.45), and for the
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