Averrunci or The Skowrers Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Ca

Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Caesar (Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, MS. A IV 5) This edition makes available for the first time a recently discovered and provocative work by the English historian Edmund Bolton. Composed in the years 16291634, Averrunci or The Skowrers aims at exposing Tacitus (alleged) anti-monarchical bias in Annals 16 and at rehabilitating the character and reign of the emperor Tiberius. The Introduction discusses the manuscript in the context of Boltons life and other works, its response to political and historiographical controversies in early Stuart England, and its unusual, revisionist position in the contemporary movement of Tacitism. A Commentary, following the text, explains difficult passages and identifies Boltons extensive historical references. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by Patricia J. Osmond and Robert W. Ulery, Jr.