Il "De origine Orobiorum sive Cenomanorum" di Giangrisostomo Zanchi. Passati immaginari e interessi epigrafici nella Bergamo del primo Cinquecento

This work offers the critical edition of the latin text De origine Orobiorum sive Cenomanorum by Giangrisostomo Zanchi form Bergamo based on the collation of the two witnesses that convey it: the edition published in Venice in 1531 and the handwritten version, not autograph and shorter than the printed copy, conserved in Bergamo’s Civic Library “Angelo Mai”. The edition is preceded by four main sections: the first one is a prosopography of Zanchi’s branch Giangrisostomo belonged to, investigated also in some manuscripts still unpublished; the second includes the analysis of De origine Orobiorum form and content, strictly tied to the Antiquities written by the forger Annius of Viterbo in the end of 15th century; the third involves the inquiry of epigraphical interests arisen in Renaissance Bergamo because Zanchi’s book ends with a collection of tituli from the city centre and the territory; finally, the last part describes the two witnesses of De origine Orobiorum, showing similarities and differences in order to suppose the epoch of the editing.