Il percorso editoriale del De non parcendo in Deum delinquentibus di Lucifero di Cagliari

In this paper, all the print editions of De non parcendo in Deum delinquentibus by Lucifer, Bishop of Cagliari (4th c.), are analysed, starting from the editio princeps (Du Tillet, 1568) until the last edition by Diercks in the Corpus Christianorum (1978). It also refers to the work of scholars such as Latino Latini, Pontius, Cotelier, De Bruyne and Nolte, who wrote on the constitutio textus, even if their efforts have not amounted to further editions. This contribution assesses the knowledge of the manuscript tradition by editors who followed the first edition and whether or not they did have recourse to both manuscript witnesses surviving today. It also highlightes the methodological flaw present in the 1677 edition in the Maxima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, that derived from the original collection of Marguerin de la Bigne, a mistake consisting in the adaptation of biblical quotations – very large in the work of Lucifer – from Jerome’s Vulgate.