The Artis historicae Penus of J. Wolf and Pietro Perna (1579): observations on the art of reading and writing histories in late European Renaissance

Abstract

This paper is a translation into Spanish, with notes and commentaries, of Artis historicae Penus (Johannes Wolf [compiler] and Pietro Perna [typographer], 1579), the first historiographical anthology of late European Renaissance. This anthology was part of a new unique editorial project regarding its purpose and scope. In the brief presentation essay that precedes the translation, four aspects regarding the anthology and its authors will be addressed: (i) paratextual layout, (ii) biographies, (iii) political and religious contexts, and (iv) epistemological and pedagogical frameworks.