INTRODUCTION 



followed by the Bruschian edition, published at 

 Reggio in 1482. The edition of the \'eronese archi- 

 tect, lucundas, came from the press of Aldus Manutius 

 at Venice in 1514. This, the first Aldine edition, 

 showed a wider acquaintance with the manuscripts, 

 and restored the twelve books of the Res Rtisiica to 

 their proper numerical order. A second Aldine 

 edition, of no additional importance, appeared in 

 1533. The most noteworthy annotated editions of 

 the complete works are found in the Scripiores Rei 

 Rusdcae Veteres Latini of J. M. Gesner, printed at 

 Leipzig in 1735, reprinted by Ernesti in 1773 with 

 the readings of the Sangermanensis Ms. ; and in the 

 Scripiores Rei Rusticae Veteres Latini of .1. G. Schneider, 

 which appeared at Leipzig during the years 1794- 

 1796. The edition of Schneider takes account of all 

 earlier works and is still the most valuable complete 

 edition that we possess. No modern critical edition 

 of the entire work of Columella has been produced, 

 although the eminent Swedish scholar, Vilhelm 

 Lundstrom, has made a notable start in that direction 

 with the publication of seven of the thirteen books. ^ 

 The poem on gardening (Book X) has been included 

 in a few annotated editions of Poetae Latini Minores, 

 of which Wernsdorf's (1794), reproduced with few 

 changes in Lemaire's recension {Bihliotheca Classica 

 Latina, Vol. VII, Paris, 1826), is the best. In more 

 recent times the tenth book, with text and critical 

 apparatus only, has been edited separately by 



' V. Lundstrom, L. luni Moderati Columellae opera quae 

 exstant : fasc. 1 (De Arboribus), Upsala, 1897; fasc. 6 (Bk. X), 

 Upaaia, 1902; fasc. 7 (Bk. XI), Upsala, 1906; fasc. 2 (Bks. 

 I-II), Goteborg, 1917; tasc. 4 (Bks. Vi-VII), Goteborg, 

 1940. 



